Rent Infiniti QX80 2021 in Dubai

Renting the Infiniti QX80 2021 in Dubai gets you a full size, eight seat V8 SUV with 250 km a day built into the booking, which matters when the whole family is in and the week involves airport runs and mall trips. This is the older year, so you get the same body-on-frame land yacht and the same 5.6 litre engine at a softer rate than the newer one. The argument here is simple. If you need to move seven or eight people plus luggage in cooled, quiet comfort, the QX80 does it better than almost anything in its class, as long as you accept what a 400 hp V8 costs at the pump.

What you're actually renting

The QX80 2021 is a proper three-row SUV, not a stretched crossover. Eight seats, a high driving position, and a cabin built for people who expect leather and space rather than sport. The 5.6 litre V8 puts out 400 hp through a seven speed automatic, and it moves this big body to 100 km/h in about 7.5 seconds, which is quick for something this size.

Power goes to the rear wheels on this configuration, which is worth knowing before you plan anything off-tarmac. It'll cruise and overtake on the highway with ease, but it isn't the all-wheel-drive version some QX80s ship with, so treat soft sand with respect.

Does the family and the luggage fit

Yes, and that's the point of renting one. All three rows are usable by adults, not just the front two with a token bench behind. Eight seats means six passengers plus two up front, or you fold the third row flat for a cargo hold most sedans can't touch.

With all eight seats up, you get around 470 litres behind the third row. That's enough for a few soft bags and the day's shopping, not a stack of hard cases. For a real airport run, fold one half of the third row, seat seven, and load the long side. Travelling as a couple or a family of four? Drop the whole third row and you have a cargo bay that swallows a week's worth of cases, a pram, and the cooler box.

How often you'll refuel

Here's the honest part. The V8 drinks. Combined economy sits around 14.7 litres per 100 km, and in Dubai stop-and-go heat with the AC working hard, expect worse than that in the city. The 98 litre tank gives you roughly 660 km of mixed driving on paper, less when you're crawling through Downtown at school-run hour.

Practically, you'll fill it every two to three days of normal use. Fuel is cheap here by global standards, so it stings less than it would elsewhere, but go in expecting to visit the pump. If running cost is your main worry, this is the wrong car and you should size down to a six-cylinder SUV.

Heat, AC and the cabin

A big cabin takes longer to cool, and at 45°C a QX80 parked in the sun gets properly hot inside. The upside is a strong climate system with vents reaching all three rows, so once it's running, everyone gets cold air, not just the front seats. Give it a few minutes with the fans high before you load kids in. Rear passengers won't bake the way they do in cars that only vent the front.

Parking, ramps and city manoeuvres

This is where the QX80's size bites back. At 5.3 metres long and over two metres wide, it's a handful in tight multi-storey bays and on the spiral ramps you find under Marina towers and older malls. Cameras and sensors help, and the all-round view makes it manageable, but you'll be the one taking two goes at a tight U-turn while a hatchback flicks around in one.

Ground clearance is generous at roughly 230 mm, so speed bumps and raised mall entrances are a non-issue. On the open road it's a different animal: stable, planted and quiet on Sheikh Zayed Road, happy to sit at the limit and overtake without drama. For DXB or DWC airport runs with a full load, it's genuinely relaxing.

Desert and rough ground

The QX80 has the clearance for graded tracks and firm sand, but this is the rear-wheel-drive spec, so serious dune bashing isn't its job. Keep it to corniche drives, gravel approaches and the firm stuff near the desert edge. If your trip is built around real off-road, rent a proper 4x4 instead.

A few local rules apply here. Salik tolls and any RTA fines run to you as the renter, seat belts are required in every row, and children under four need a child seat. With eight belts in this car, that last one is easy to sort.

Who should rent it

Rent the QX80 2021 if you're moving a big group in comfort and want luxury without paying the newest-year premium. Large families, multi-couple trips, anyone shuttling guests between hotel, mall and airport: this is the car that does all of it in one quiet, cooled cabin. If you're two people doing city errands, or you care most about fuel bills, skip it and rent something smaller. But if you need eight real seats and a boot that holds the whole trip, nothing in this class makes more sense for the money.