The most popular SUV models offered at rental locations in Porto are: Hyundai Tuscon, Toyota Landcruiser, Suzuki Jimny, Kia Sportage, Hyundai Santa Fe, Toyota Rav4 and others.
While selecting your preferred model of an off-road vehicle, please examine the rental conditions. In particular, those requirements that concern credit cards – when it comes to renting an expensive car, sometimes offices in Portugal ask information about two credit cards.
Before signing the contract in the rental office upon arrival, check that the invoice figures match with figures in your voucher.
Once the vehicle is assigned, inspect it carefully before leaving the parking. Crossovers and SUVs are often used in tough road conditions, therefore scratches and other exteriour defects are inevitable. Due to this, it is important to check and specify all existing defects in your rental documents.
If you plan to use an off-road vehicle in the mountains, it is recommended to order snow chains. This will save you from unexpected incidents. Other important equipment in Portugal are mandatory child seats for travellers with children.
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Common questions on rental process
Foreign guests should drive confidently and calmly, and so not follow the example of local drivers who exceed speed and make other traffic violations. The behavior of local drivers should not be interpreted as aggression. If they honk persistently and ask you to increase speed, you simply need to give way to the drivers and continue driving in accordance with the speed limit.
It is worth noting that Portuguese drivers are somewhat stubborn. Even if they do not have the right to make a certain maneuver (for example, to overtake), they will still not give way to other cars until they make it. If a driver is moving at low speed, other cars can pursue him for more than one kilometer, honking constantly, until the driver doesn’t move to the right lane, so other cars can overtake him.
For Portugal residents, car is the main means of transportation. They use cars not only to go to work and on business, but also to make a family holiday or to visit relatives.
