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Independent car rental rankings

Know who you’re renting from before you land.

19 fleet operators ranked across 10 airports and 7 cities, on the deposit, excess and tolls the booking page leaves out.

Find your airport How we score

Busiest airports we rank

  1. London Heathrow AirportEnterprise9.2/10
  2. London Gatwick AirportEnterprise9.1/10
  3. Dublin AirportMy Irish Cousin9.8/10
  4. Manchester AirportEnterprise9.0/10
  5. London Stansted AirportEnterprise8.9/10
All 17 rankings ↓

Nobody pays for placement.

No company can buy a ranking, a listing, or a mention. The order is the score.

Real fleets only.

Brokers own no cars, so they never appear. Sister brands that share one desk are ranked once.

The fine print, up front.

Deposit, excess, tolls and pickup reality for every operator, listed side by side on every page.

Every ranking

One page per airport and city, each scored on the same four criteria.

How we score

Four criteria, weighted the same way on every page. The weights are published so you can disagree with them.

  1. Price transparency30%

    What the headline rate hides: deposits, card holds, excess, toll handling and desk upsells. All-inclusive pricing scores highest.

  2. Customer record30%

    Verified public ratings — Google reviews first — weighted by volume. A 5.0 across 1,800 reviews beats a 4.9 across twelve.

  3. Pickup experience20%

    In-terminal desks versus shuttles, queue reality at peak season, paperwork friction and out-of-hours returns.

  4. Fleet & flexibility20%

    Fleet age and range, automatic availability, one-way options, minimum-age rules and payment-card flexibility.