Rent Mercedes E400 2020 in Dubai

Book the Mercedes E 400 2020 for a week of Dubai client meetings and airport runs, and the car itself will not be the problem. The number to read carefully first is the mileage allowance: 250 km a day, and every kilometre past that runs AED 5, a steep rate next to most cars in this class. Stay inside the city on a desk-to-hotel-to-meeting loop and you will barely notice it. Add a Hatta or Ras Al Khaimah day trip without checking the odometer first and the bill can move fast. We deliver the car to your hotel, villa or terminal in red, usually within one to two hours of booking. The rest of this page is about whether the E 400 itself fits the way you actually plan to use it.

The engine, and how it drives

This particular E 400 is the pre-facelift W213, built before Mercedes swapped in the newer inline-six in 2020 and renamed that car E 450 elsewhere. What you get here is the older, more characterful unit: a 3.0-litre V6 biturbo making 333 hp and 480 Nm, sent through a 9G-TRONIC nine-speed automatic to 4MATIC all-wheel drive. It's a genuine step up from a four-cylinder C-Class and a genuine step down from an S-Class six, and that middle ground is where it earns its keep. Zero to 100 km/h takes 5.2 seconds, and the V6 pulls with a smoother, throatier delivery than the turbo-four cars below it in the range.

On Sheikh Zayed Road that means overtaking without dropping two gears and thinking about it first. The 4MATIC system isn't doing much for grip on dry Dubai tarmac, but it keeps the car settled at a fast cruise, and the nine-speed gearbox holds a low, quiet rev at 120 km/h rather than hunting for a ratio. This is a car built for covering distance calmly, and it does that job better than most other sedans at this price point in our fleet.

Boot, back seat and the daily use

The boot holds 540 litres, a proper business-sedan number. Two large hard cases and a laptop bag go in flat with room for a soft duffel, so a DXB or DWC pickup with a full week's luggage is straightforward. It's not a wagon and there's no folding rear seat, so a fourth passenger's case tends to end up on a lap rather than in the boot.

The back seat is sedan-proportioned rather than limousine-generous, closer to the C-Class than to the long-wheelbase comfort of an S-Class. Two colleagues riding to the same meeting sit fine for a cross-town hop, and a tall adult behind a tall driver manages an airport run without complaint, just without the stretch-out room the flagship offers. For a solo trip or a couple, that's plenty. For four adults each with a full case, it gets tight, and that's worth knowing before you book rather than after.

Dubai heat is the daily reality here, not an occasional one. A cabin this size takes a few minutes to pull down from a baking July car park, and the front vents do the heavy lifting fast once you climb back in. Rear passengers get their own vents, so the back seat cools without waiting on air drifting from the front. Salik tolls and any RTA fines picked up during the rental are the renter's responsibility, and seat belts are mandatory in every seat under UAE law. Parking is easy to plan around: at just under five metres long the E 400 fits a standard multi-storey bay without drama, and roughly 120 mm of clearance handles ordinary speed bumps and mall ramps at a sensible pace, though the steepest basement ramps still deserve a slow approach.

The mileage math, and why it matters here

This is the section that decides whether the E 400 is the right booking. The daily allowance is 250 km, which comfortably covers a normal Dubai working pattern: hotel to a couple of meetings, an airport transfer, dinner across town. A typical business day rarely clears 100 to 150 km even with a few crossings of the city.

Where it changes is a longer day out. Go to Hatta and back, or run up to Abu Dhabi and home the same day, and 250 km disappears fast. Past that point, every extra kilometre costs AED 5, well above the AED 0.5 rate on some of our other luxury sedans, and it adds up quickly on a car that's genuinely comfortable to drive further than that. If your week is mostly city-bound, the allowance is generous and you'll likely finish most days with kilometres to spare. If you're planning day trips outside Dubai, do the rough distance math first, or ask us about a higher-mileage plan so a good highway car doesn't turn into an expensive one.

Who should rent it, and who should look elsewhere

Rent the E 400 2020 if you want a proper V6 Mercedes sedan for a business week around Dubai: airport transfers, client meetings, confident cruising on the E11, without the size or price of an S-Class. The engine is the reason to pick this over a four-cylinder E-Class or C-Class, and it delivers exactly where a busy week needs it, on the highway and in a clean overtake.

Look elsewhere in two cases. If your trip involves regular long-distance days outside the city, the steep per-kilometre overage rate makes this an expensive choice unless you plan the mileage first or arrange a higher allowance. And if you need genuine four-adult comfort with a full set of luggage, an S-Class gives you the rear-seat space this car doesn't quite have. As a luxury sedan the E 400 takes a refundable deposit rather than a no-deposit option, so budget for that at pickup. You'll need to be 21 to take the keys, and we accept debit cards and cash alongside credit if you'd rather not put the deposit on a credit line.