Car Rental

Bus trips are incredibly expensive in Iceland. A day trip to see the icebergs from Reykjavik would be £135 each! Therefore a car makes a lot of sense. However, there are downsides.

Age of vehicles

Here in the UK, you'll usually get a nearly new car. the idea here is that they buy lots of cars and get a discount, rent them out for a while and then sell them off. However, with the small population and the greatly increasing number of tourists, hire cars tend to stay in circulation until a tourist kills one. Some of the companies are honest about the ages of what they're renting: 2008 Hyundai Tucson, 2006 Hyundai Santa Fe, 2004 Subaru Forester, etc. Others just state, for example, Nissan Qashqai without stating age. Now, Quashqais have been made since 2006 so it could be quite old indeed. Dacia Dusters, on the other hand, were only introduced in Iceland in 2013 so if you get one of them then you know it's not going to be that old.

One guy rented a Toyota Avensis from SADcars and it had 285,000 miles on it.