Rent Nissan Patrol 2021 in Dubai

Book the Nissan Patrol 2021 for a week and you get 4,500 kilometres to spend across the whole rental, not a daily number that resets every morning and goes to waste if you don't use it. City errands, an airport run, a day out to Hatta, it all comes out of the same pool, and anything past 4,500 km is billed at a flat AED 1 per kilometre, simple enough to work out at drop-off without a calculator. We get this V8 to your door in one to two hours. This is the outgoing Y62-generation Patrol, the 5.6-litre V8 wagon that has anchored Dubai's rental fleets for years, not the redesigned model that only arrived for 2025. What this page settles is whether that mileage deal and this much SUV actually suit your week, or whether you'd be paying for distance and seats you won't use.

Driving the V8 day to day

This is the facelifted Y62 Patrol, the body-on-frame wagon Nissan has built since 2010 and updated for 2020, not the twin-turbo redesign that came along a few years later. Most 2021 Patrols in this fleet carry a 5.6-litre naturally aspirated V8 making 400 hp at 5,800 rpm and 560 Nm at 4,000 rpm, sent through a seven-speed automatic to all four wheels with a genuine low-range transfer case bolted to a proper ladder frame. There's no turbo lag to wait through here. The engine builds power steadily from low revs and keeps pulling cleanly all the way up, which on Sheikh Zayed Road shows up as a car that settles into 120 km/h without strain and has enough in reserve that overtaking a slow truck needs a light push of the pedal, not a downshift. For something over five metres long, 0-100 km/h in around 6.6 seconds still catches passengers off guard.

One thing worth confirming before you book: a share of 2021 Patrols in the GCC carry a smaller 4.0-litre V6 instead of the V8. It's a competent engine on its own, just noticeably calmer, so if the eight-cylinder is the reason you picked this car, ask us to check which engine your specific unit has.

What the seats and the boot give a full family

Seven seats, and the Patrol treats the number honestly. The second row is wide enough for three across, or two adults who don't have to negotiate elbow room, and it slides and tips forward on its own, so reaching the third row is a step rather than a climb over folded seatbacks. Once someone is back there, the seat is sized for an adult on a proper drive, not a child folded in for ten minutes. Seat belts are required in every position under RTA rules, and any child under four needs a proper child seat, worth arranging when you book rather than sorted out at the door.

Living with the Patrol day to day means planning the boot rather than assuming it. With all seven seats up, the space behind the last row takes a couple of soft bags and the weekly shop, not a stack of hard suitcases for a full car. Fold one side of the third row down and a proper load bay opens up for cases while five or six people still travel. Drop the whole row and it swallows a large family's luggage for a week with room to spare. The day this catches people out is the rare one where every seat is filled and every case is packed at the same time, and across a normal week of school runs, mall trips and one airport pickup, that day rarely turns up.

The mileage deal, fuel and a black cabin in summer

The 4,500 km allowance is meant to be spent across the whole booking, not rationed out day by day, so a week that's mostly quiet around the villa with one long push to Hatta or Abu Dhabi near the end works just as well as one where you drive an even amount daily. Go past it and it's a flat AED 1 per kilometre, gentler than the overage rates on some SUVs this size and easy to estimate on the drive back if you've kept half an eye on the odometer. Salik tolls and any RTA fines still land on you as the renter, the same as on every car we hand over.

Feeding the V8 is the less forgiving number. Nissan's combined figure sits around 14 L/100km, but a two-and-a-half-tonne SUV working through Dubai traffic with the air conditioning on full tends to land closer to 16 or 17 in practice. The 140-litre tank absorbs most of that gap, so you're not hunting for a fuel station every other day even with a heavy right foot.

This unit is black, and black works against a parked SUV in July more than most colours on the lot. Dark paint holds heat rather than throwing it back, so the roof and bonnet run hotter to the touch after a few hours in open sun, and the cabin starts from a worse position before you even climb back in. Give the front vents a couple of minutes on full and the temperature drops fast regardless, and because the rear vents are properly fed, the second and third rows aren't left with whatever warm air the front seats have already used.

The renter this 4,500 km deal suits, and who should pass

Rent the Nissan Patrol 2021 if you're a large family or a group travelling with real luggage, or if your week mixes highway distance, seven passengers and a day heading toward the sand. The 4,500 km total gives you room to plan a trip unevenly, heavy driving on some days and almost none on others, rather than watching a daily cap reset and go unused. You'll need to be 21 to take the keys, and the V8 makes long stretches of driving feel shorter than they are.

Look elsewhere if it's one or two of you running errands with the odd airport pickup. You'd be parking a five-metre SUV built for seven and feeding a thirsty V8 for a job a mid-size crossover or a sedan handles on less fuel and with far less fuss in a tight car park. The mileage deal is a genuine advantage on this car, but it only pays off on a week that actually puts some distance on the odometer.