Rent BMW 735 2024 in Dubai

Renting a BMW 735 2024 in Dubai, the first thing worth fixing is the label: our listing shows this car under SUV, and that's simply wrong. The 735i is BMW's flagship 7 Series sedan, not a raised, boxy body, and it comes to you in black, delivered to your hotel, villa or terminal in one to two hours. Most people who book a 735i are not chasing ground clearance or a high seating position. They want the back seat of a full-size limousine, and a driver, whether that's a chauffeur or themselves, who can make Sheikh Zayed Road feel unhurried. That's the sedan you're actually getting, and it does that job better than any SUV in this class.

The inline six, and what it feels like to drive

Under the bonnet sits a 3.0-litre turbocharged inline six with a 48-volt mild-hybrid assist, sending 286 hp and 425 Nm through an eight-speed automatic to the rear wheels. The listing also flags this car as all-wheel drive, and that's a second correction worth making here: the 735i in this fleet is rear-wheel drive. BMW does build an xDrive version of the G70 elsewhere, but it isn't this car, and RWD is genuinely the right layout for Dubai's dry, well-sealed roads anyway.

The six pulls with more calm than the numbers suggest. Zero to 100 km/h takes 6.7 seconds and the car is limited to 250 km/h, but what you notice day to day is how the torque builds low down, so a merge onto the E11 or an overtake at 120 happens in one smooth push rather than a downshift and a lunge. It isn't the V8 and it isn't the electric i7 that shares this body. It's the six, and for a two-tonne-plus limousine that mostly cruises, that's the sensible engine rather than a compromise.

The back seat, the boot and how you'll use both

Spend a minute with the numbers and the reason to book this over a mid-size sedan becomes obvious. The G70 rides on a 3,215 mm wheelbase, and nearly all of that extra length sits behind the B-pillar. Two adults get proper legroom, the backrests recline, and the cabin stays quiet enough that a stuck hour in traffic barely registers. If the plan is an airport pickup at DXB or DWC, a stretch of client meetings, or simply arriving somewhere without having driven yourself there, that back seat is the entire point of renting a 735i rather than a smaller executive car.

The boot is where you should be realistic. At 540 litres it's a normal flat sedan space, not a cavern, deep enough for two large hard cases and a soft bag, but there's no folding rear seat to claim extra room from if a fifth passenger's luggage turns up too. Two executives with check-in bags fit without a second thought. A family of five moving a week of holiday cases will run out of boot before they run out of bags, and that's exactly where the SUV label on the listing sets the wrong expectation, since a sedan this shape simply can't match SUV cargo room.

Fuel, heat and keeping a black cabin cool

Black looks the part on a car this size, but it holds more heat than the white or silver cars in the same range. Parked through a full Dubai afternoon in July, a black 735 comes back to you warmer inside, and the climate system needs a little longer to pull the cabin down before you climb back in. Once it's running, it isn't struggling. Rear passengers get their own vents and controls, so the back seat cools on its own schedule instead of waiting for the front, and ventilated front seats take the edge off those first few minutes.

Combined fuel economy is rated at 7.9 L/100km against a 74-litre tank, which is reasonable for a car this size and enough for a working week of city driving and airport runs without thinking hard about fuel stops. Salik tolls and any RTA fines picked up during the rental are on the renter, same as with any car here, and at nearly 5.4 metres long the 735 wants a little more care in tight multi-storey bays than a smaller sedan, even if the cameras and sensors do most of the actual work.

Who this 735i sedan suits, and who should look elsewhere

Book the 735i if the value of the trip is in the back seat: a multi-day business visit, proper airport transfers, or getting somewhere without having fought the traffic to arrive there yourself. It's also a genuinely good car to drive if you want to, sharper than a two-tonne limousine has any right to be, so nobody behind the wheel is shortchanged either.

Two kinds of renter should look elsewhere. Anyone who came to this listing expecting SUV space, ground clearance or a raised seating position should book an actual SUV instead, because the 735i is a low, long sedan and nothing about it changes that. The same goes if the trip genuinely needs seven seats or a full load of family luggage. As a luxury sedan, expect a deposit at pickup rather than the no-deposit option some smaller cars offer. Your allowance is 250 km a day, extra kilometres are billed at AED 0.5 each, and you'll need to be 25 to collect the keys, with delivery to your door in one to two hours.