Rent Nissan Kicks 2024 in Dubai

Type Nissan Kicks 2024 into a search bar and a few listings tack on an e-Power badge, Nissan's petrol-electric hybrid system built into this shape in other markets. The car we rent in Dubai does not have it. Every 2024 Kicks here runs the same 1.6-litre petrol engine and CVT automatic this first-generation body has used since launch, and the hybrid tech only reached the region on the redesigned second-generation Kicks that landed here in 2025. Worth clearing up before you book expecting a silent hybrid start at the lights. We deliver this crossover to your door in Dubai within one to two hours, and the rental comes with unlimited mileage included, no daily figure to track and nothing billed for going further. What's left to settle is whether a compact SUV this size suits two people, or whether you need room for four.

The 1.6 CVT, and what it feels like day to day

Under the bonnet is a 1.6-litre naturally aspirated four-cylinder making 118 hp and 149 Nm, sending drive to the front wheels through Nissan's Xtronic CVT. There's no turbo lag and nothing electric humming under the seat, just a conventional pairing doing a conventional job. Around town that job is easy. The CVT holds a steady, low crawl through Al Khail Road traffic and doesn't hunt for a ratio the way some cheaper automatics do pulling out of a Business Bay basement ramp, and the light steering makes the endless Dubai U-turn a non-event.

Take it onto Sheikh Zayed Road and the picture stays honest rather than exciting. It settles into a 120 km/h cruise without strain and holds it comfortably on a run to either airport. Ask for a fast pass around a truck and the CVT needs a beat to think about it, revs rising before the road speed follows, so you plan the gap instead of forcing it. That's normal for a small naturally aspirated engine on this gearbox, not a fault specific to this car. Treat it as a relaxed commuter rather than something built for aggressive overtaking, and it never lets you down.

Cargo space: the boot and the back seat

The boot holds 432 litres with the rear seats up, and it's a tall load bay rather than a wide, shallow one, so two upright hard-shell suitcases stand easily with a soft holdall wedged beside them, enough for a week's luggage on a DXB or DWC run. Fold the 60/40 rear seats and the floor opens out flat for a flatpack delivery, a stroller, or a bike with the front wheel off.

The back seat is honest about where it stops. Two adults sit fine there for a mall run or a longer highway drive, and three kids buckle across without a squeeze, with a child seat required under RTA rules for anyone under four. Add a fourth adult alongside a full boot for a whole day out and both the seat and the boot run short of room at roughly the same point, which is the real ceiling on a car this length.

Parking is where the length pays for itself. At 1,760 mm wide the Kicks slides into a tower's basement bay or a mall's upper deck without the shuffle a full-size SUV needs, and 200 mm of ground clearance takes speed bumps and steep ramp lips in stride. Read that clearance as a city advantage, not a desert one. This is a front-wheel-drive crossover on road tyres, with no business past the last stretch of tarmac before the sand starts.

No mileage cap, fuel and the cabin in summer

The policy worth knowing before you book is that there's no daily kilometre figure attached to this Kicks, and nothing waiting to be billed if you go past one, because there's nothing to go past. Commute across the city all week, add a Friday run out to Hatta, and none of it gets weighed against an allowance when you hand the keys back. That's a genuine difference from the capped rentals common in this class.

Fuel is the other cost that stays low no matter how far you go. Official combined economy is 6.1 litres per 100 km, and Dubai's stop-start traffic with the AC working hard pushes real-world driving closer to 7. The 41-litre tank still returns roughly 500 to 600 km of city range, so most weeks settle into one stop at the pump, occasionally two if you're commuting in from further out. Salik tolls and any RTA fines during the rental stay with the renter, as they do on every car we hand over.

Heat is the part that decides comfort more than anything else in July and August, and the small cabin works in your favour. There's less air to chill, so it drops from a baking, sun-parked afternoon to comfortable faster than a bigger SUV manages after the same wait. The front vents pull hard. There's no separate vent for the back seat on this generation, so whoever's sitting there gets air carried through from the front, fine with one passenger back there and slower to reach a full row on the worst afternoons. Crack the windows for the first minute before you settle in, and park in shade at the mall when you get the choice. The cabin plastics are hard and plain, standard for the class, but screwed together well.

The renter this Kicks suits, and the one it doesn't

Book the Kicks if you're one or two people, or a couple with a young child, who want crossover height, easy parking, and a rental that doesn't charge extra the further you drive. Commuters, residents settling in without a car of their own yet, and anyone splitting a week between the office, the mall and the odd trip out of town get everything this car offers, and few things in the fleet cost less to keep fed.

Look at something bigger if you're regularly four adults with full suitcases, or you want a back seat with its own air vents for a family through the summer. A mid-size SUV carries that load with room to spare and won't cost much more to run. And if Hatta's rougher tracks or any real off-roading are on the plan, this isn't the car for it, since front-wheel drive on road tyres keeps it firmly on tarmac. The Kicks 2024 delivers to your door in one to two hours, the minimum age to rent it is 25, and for one or two people who don't want to think about mileage or an electric drivetrain that isn't there, it's a straightforward car to recommend.