Exotic Car Rental in San Clemente

Exotic car rental in San Clemente arrives in a town that was designed to be quiet. Prometheus Exotics delivers to the red tile roofs and white walls of a Spanish village that a developer laid out on purpose almost a century ago for what he called the slow life, and the town has kept it. A luxury car rental in San Clemente is an outsider's arrival into a place that guards its own pace, so it is the drive down the coast, and the surf, that justify it.

Exotic Car Rental Delivered in San Clemente

We deliver to the homes on the hills above the pier, to the newer streets of Talega, which kept the Spanish village look when it was built, and to the beach cottages along the coast toward San Onofre. The pier neighborhoods around Avenida Del Mar are the walkable downtown, still a grid of independent shops rather than a resort strip. Delivery in San Clemente is a flat $50. This is the last town in Orange County before Camp Pendleton, so it is the farthest south we go in this region, and we time the drop to the I-5 traffic that everyone here plans their day around.

Where to Take It

Come in from the north on the 5 and the road tips down toward the water with the whole coastline in the windshield. Then get off it. El Camino Real and Avenida Del Mar run through the village to the pier, and Casa Romantica, the Spanish estate the town's founder built on the bluff above it, is the view you came for. Trestles, below La Casa Pacifica, the presidential estate on the bluff, is one of the premier surf breaks in Southern California, and the trailhead lot is where the morning starts for most of the town. From the pier, the coast road north carries you to Dana Point in 15 minutes, past Capistrano Beach. It is an out-and-back coast rather than a loop, and the car earns its keep on the way home.

Which Cars Suit San Clemente

A surf town rewards cars that can carry a board or take a curve without ceremony. A Land Rover Defender is right for the Trestles lot and the hill streets. A Porsche is right for the coast road and quiet enough to fit the village. A Corvette or a BMW M car suits the drive down the 5 from the rest of the county, which is the real experience of coming here. A Ferrari works for a weekend where the point is arriving at the pier with the roof down. Rates run from $295 to about $4,000 a day depending on the car, and longer rentals lower the daily price.