Rent Nissan Patrol 2020 in Dubai

Most Nissan Patrols on this fleet arrive in white, black or occasionally silver, so a blue Nissan Patrol 2020 gets a second look at the airport arrivals curb or outside a hotel lobby. It is not a shy colour, and on a car this size that reads closer to a personality than a paint job. Underneath the blue sits the same hardware that has made the Patrol Dubai's default big SUV for years: a 5.6-litre V8, genuine four-wheel drive with a low-range transfer case, and seven real seats. We get it to your door within one to two hours of booking. This page is about what that V8 and that space actually deliver on a normal week, and whether the colour changes anything beyond how the car looks parked outside your building.

Four hundred horsepower under an unusually blue bonnet

This is the Y62-generation Patrol, the body-on-frame wagon Nissan facelifted for the 2020 model year, not the redesigned car that replaced the V8 with a turbocharged six a few years later. The engine is a 5.6-litre naturally aspirated V8 making 400 hp at 5,800 rpm and 560 Nm at 4,000 rpm, run through a seven-speed automatic to Nissan's All-Mode 4WD system with a proper low-range transfer case. Nothing about that recipe needs blue paint to work. It still gets to 100 km/h in around 6.6 seconds despite weighing more than two and a half tonnes, and it still holds 120 km/h on Sheikh Zayed Road without any strain in the engine note, so an overtake happens on a light push of the pedal rather than a downshift and a wait.

Low range is there for looser ground near Hatta, and it works as advertised, though dune driving still rewards dropped tyre pressures and a driver who has done it before, not a first attempt alone. One thing worth confirming before you book: a share of 2020 Patrols in the GCC carry a smaller 4.0-litre V6 instead of this V8. It is a fine engine, just noticeably calmer, so if the V8 is why you picked this car, ask us to confirm which engine your unit carries.

Seven real seats, and what's left for luggage

Seven seats, and the Patrol treats the number honestly. The middle row is wide enough for three across or two adults with room to spare, and it slides and tips forward on its own, so getting to the third row does not mean climbing over anything. Adults can sit back there for the run to Abu Dhabi, not just the ten minutes to school.

The boot is where you plan rather than assume. With all seven seats up, the space behind the third row takes a couple of soft bags and a stroller, not a stack of hard suitcases for a full car. Fold one side of the third row down and you get a proper load bay for cases while five or six people still travel. Take the whole row out and it swallows a big family's luggage for a week with room to spare. The trip that catches renters out is the one that needs every seat filled and every case packed at once, and for most bookings, city errands, a school run, an airport pickup, that trip never comes up.

What this V8 costs to run, and how blue handles the sun

A 5.6-litre V8 was never built to sip fuel, and the combined figure of around 14 L/100km undersells what it actually drinks in Dubai traffic. With the AC working hard and stop-start city driving, real consumption tends to sit closer to 16 or 17. The 140-litre tank absorbs that gap well, buying several days of ordinary driving before you need to think about a station again.

Mileage is the number to plan around more than fuel. The daily allowance is 250 km, and every kilometre past that costs AED 0.5. City errands, school runs and airport pickups sit comfortably inside that limit, but a full day out to Hatta and back can close the gap faster than people expect, so tally the route before you leave rather than finding the overage at drop-off. You will need to be 25 to take the keys, and Salik tolls plus any RTA fines land on you as the renter, the same as on any car we hand over.

Paint colour matters less to cabin comfort than people assume, and blue is a reasonable middle case. It runs a touch warmer than white after a few hours in open sun, but nowhere near what a black Patrol carries by mid afternoon. None of that changes what actually cools the car down once you are in it. Climb back in and give the front vents a couple of minutes at full strength before the cabin feels normal, and the rear vents keep the second and third rows properly fed rather than left with whatever warm air the front seats used first. Size is the other constant regardless of colour. At just over 5.1 metres long, the Patrol wants a full bay rather than the gap near the trolley return, though 275 mm of ground clearance turns speed bumps and steep mall ramps into things you stop noticing.

Book this blue Patrol for the right week, skip it for the wrong one

Book it if you are a large family or a group with real luggage, or if your week mixes highway distance, seven seats and a day out toward the dunes. The V8 and the low-range 4WD are not decoration, and picking blue over the usual white or black costs you nothing in capability, just a slightly warmer roof by the time you get back to it. You will need to be 25 to rent it, and the AED 0.5 per-km overage rewards a bit of route planning rather than punishing it.

Choose something smaller if it is one or two of you handling errands with the odd airport pickup. You would be parking a five-metre SUV built for seven and feeding a thirsty V8 for a job a mid-size crossover manages on a fraction of the fuel. If a distinctive colour matters to you but the size does not, that is worth weighing honestly before you commit to a whole week in it. This Patrol earns its keep on the week that actually needs seven seats and real ground clearance, not because blue happens to stand out in the parking bay.