Rent Ferrari 296 2024 in Dubai

Black paint on a Ferrari 296 GTB 2024 looks right in every photo, but in a Dubai summer it is the first cost you pay, well before the plug-in hybrid system saves you anything. A dark body panel sitting in July sun runs measurably hotter than a lighter one, and on a car this low and this glassy, that heat finds its way into the cabin fast. We deliver this car to your door in Dubai, usually within one to two hours of booking, exactly as it comes: black. The real question is whether a low, strictly two-seat hybrid supercar earns its keep against what that colour costs you in comfort, and against what 25 km of electric range does and does not solve.

The hybrid V6 and how it puts power down

Ferrari dropped the V8 here and built its first road-going V6, a 3.0-litre twin-turbo unit that makes 654 hp on its own. Between the engine and the eight-speed dual-clutch gearbox sits an electric motor adding another 167 hp, and together the system sends 819 hp and 740 Nm to the rear wheels only. Ferrari quotes 0 to 100 km/h in 2.9 seconds and a top speed of 330 km/h, figures that used to need a V8 or a V10 to reach.

The electric side is genuinely usable, not a gimmick tacked on for a press release. A roughly 7.5 kWh battery is good for about 25 km of driving on electric power alone, enough to roll out of a hotel driveway or a basement car park in near silence before the V6 wakes up. That 25 km will not cover a real day, so treat it as the quiet first and last few minutes of a trip rather than a way to skip fuel altogether. Once the combustion engine takes over, it still sounds and pulls like a Ferrari, a sharper and higher-revving snarl than the old V8s some regulars will miss. On Sheikh Zayed Road it closes gaps the second you ask, and with 819 hp going through the rear wheels alone, a wet roundabout or a freshly washed ramp is not the place to test how much grip is actually there.

Two seats, one small boot, and what that means

There is no back row, so the whole seating conversation is one sentence long: it is you and one other person, full stop. Luggage lives in a single front boot of about 200 litres, which sounds decent on paper but is shaped for soft bags and one carry-on each, not a pair of hard suitcases. Two people with a duffel and a backpack apiece are fine. Land at the airport with a week's worth of hard cases and this is the wrong car, not because it is unusually small for a supercar, but because there is exactly one boot and no seats to prop anything against.

The nose sits very low, lower than most sports cars we hand over, so steep mall ramps, tight driveway lips and the harder speed bumps around the Marina and Downtown will catch the front splitter if you take them square on. An optional front-axle lift is available on some cars in this range, raising the nose a few centimetres at low speed, so ask us whether the specific car has it fitted before you commit to a hotel with a steep entrance. At nearly two metres wide with the mirrors out, tight multi-storey bays want a slow, deliberate line rather than confidence.

A black cabin, charging and running cost

Colour is not just a look here. Black bodywork absorbs more heat under direct sun than white or silver, and on a car with this little glasshouse and a seating position that sits close to the bodywork, that extra heat load reaches the cabin faster during a midday stop. Park it outside a mall for a couple of hours in August and expect the air conditioning to need longer to claw the cabin back down once you climb back in, and expect the black paint itself to be uncomfortably hot to touch. A sun shade across that low windscreen earns its place in the boot.

You do not need to hunt for a charger during the rental. The battery tops itself up from the engine as you drive, and a plug-in charge at a home point or public charger is an option rather than a requirement, since 25 km of range is not enough to build a routine around. Fuel is the bigger line item. Ferrari rates the 296 GTB at around 6.4 litres per 100 km combined, a lab figure from a fully charged hybrid, and real use once the V6 is doing most of the work on Sheikh Zayed Road will run higher than that. Budget for premium fuel from the 65-litre tank accordingly. The rental allowance is 250 km a day, with extra kilometres billed at AED 0.5 each, which covers most weeks of Dubai driving without close odometer-watching. Salik tolls and any RTA fines during the rental come back to you, and seat belts are mandatory in both seats.

Who this is for, and when it makes sense

Rent the Ferrari 296 GTB 2024 if it is two of you, you are packing light, and you want a supercar that does something genuinely new rather than an old formula with a battery added for the brochure. The hybrid system is not a compromise here. It gives you a silent first mile and a proper V6 for the rest of the drive, and the black paint, while it costs you a warmer wait on a parked afternoon, is a fair trade for how the car looks pulling up.

Look elsewhere if you need a third seat or real luggage for the week, or if a low nose scraping on ramps sounds like a daily headache rather than an occasional one. A Bentayga or an Urus carries people and bags with none of that anxiety. Go in clear on the terms too: this is a luxury car, so it takes a refundable deposit rather than a no-deposit option, and you need to be at least 25 to take the keys. Book it for the drive and that quiet first mile out of the garage, and plan your parking and your packing around a car that was never built to be practical.