Rent Infiniti QX80 2021 in Dubai

When you need to move seven people and a week of airport luggage in air-conditioned comfort, the choices in Dubai thin out fast. We rent the Infiniti QX80 2021 with a no-deposit option, so this full-size luxury SUV can sit on your driveway without a five-figure hold on your card. It's the imposing family flagship: a 5.6-litre V8, a real third row, and the kind of presence that makes valet staff find you a spot. The argument here is simple. For big-group comfort at a friendlier rate than the German badges, the QX80 earns its keep, as long as you go in clear-eyed about the fuel bill and the size.

Who this car is actually for

This is a seven-seater built for people who travel heavy and in numbers. Think a family of six arriving at DXB with a luggage trolley each, or a group splitting a week of long highway runs between Dubai, Abu Dhabi and the east coast. The cabin is genuinely large, the ride is soft and quiet, and the V8 never feels like it's working. If that's your trip, little else at this rate matches it.

If you're two adults doing Marina errands and the odd mall run, this is far more car than you need. You'll pay for fuel and fight for parking you didn't have to. Size down to a midsize luxury SUV and you'll be happier all week.

The third row, the boot, and your luggage

The QX80's third row is usable by adults for shorter hops and fine for kids over longer ones, which is more than you can say for many "seven-seaters" in this class. The catch is the boot. With all three rows up, space behind the rearmost seats is modest, enough for soft bags and a couple of small cases, not a full airport haul for seven. Drop the third row and the load bay opens up properly, swallowing multiple large suitcases with room over. So the honest read is this: seven passengers or a big luggage load, comfortably; both at once means packing light or folding part of the back seat.

Living with a 5.6 V8 in Dubai heat

The V8 is the easy part. It's smooth, strong, and pulls the big body up to highway speed without drama, 0 to 100 km/h in about 7.5 seconds, which is brisk for something this size. On Sheikh Zayed Road and the E11 it cruises and overtakes with room to spare, and a long DXB or DWC run with the family aboard is exactly where it's most comfortable.

The cabin cooling matters more here than the engine. A body this large parked in a summer car park bakes, and at 45°C you'll want the windows down for the first minute while the system clears the worst of it. Once moving, the QX80 has the advantage of multiple zones and dedicated vents reaching the second and third rows, so the people in the back actually get cold air rather than warmed-over front draft. Give it a couple of minutes and the big cabin holds a comfortable temperature even with seven aboard.

What it costs to feed

No way around it: a 5.6-litre V8 is thirsty, and Dubai stop-start traffic is the worst case for it. Expect roughly 15 to 16 litres per 100 km on mixed driving, closer to 18 in heavy city crawl and nearer 12 on a steady highway cruise. The flip side is a large tank, around 98 litres, which still gives you a real-world range near 600 km on a fill. For a week of airport runs and highway trips that's manageable; for daily short city hops it adds up, so budget for fuel honestly before you book.

Parking and threading the big body through Dubai

At over 5.3 metres long and just past 2 metres wide, the QX80 is a lot of vehicle to place. Tight multi-storey bays in older Marina towers and some mall car parks are genuinely snug, and you'll use the cameras and sensors on every park rather than eyeball it. Speed bumps and mall ramps are no trouble thanks to 230 mm of clearance, but U-turns and narrow lane changes ask for patience. If your week is mostly valet and open hotel parking, none of this bites. If you're squeezing into a cramped residential basement daily, factor it in.

A quick admin note: Salik tolls and any RTA fines during your rental pass to you, seatbelts are required in all seven seats, and children under four need a proper child seat, easy to fit given the space.

Specifications

The recommendation

Rent the QX80 when the trip is built around space and presence: a large family or group, plenty of luggage, airport runs and long highway days, and the wish to do it all in quiet luxury without the German-badge rate. On that brief it's hard to beat, and the no-deposit option takes the sting out of booking something this big.

Skip it if you're a couple or a small family doing mostly city driving. The fuel use and the sheer size work against you there, and a midsize luxury SUV does the job for less. And if your week leans hard into off-road and dune work rather than tarmac comfort, a body-on-frame Land Cruiser-style 4x4 is the more natural tool. For everyone else hauling people and bags across Dubai in comfort, the QX80 is the value flagship, and we'll have it at your door in one to two hours.