Renault Kangoo Rental in Paris

The Renault Kangoo is a compact van you can rent in Paris on a normal car licence, delivered to your door anywhere in the city. We are gorentcar, an online car rental service based in Paris, and the Kangoo is our go-to for small moves, bulky pickups, and trips that need more room than a hatchback. 

It comes in two shapes: a two-seat cargo version with a sealed load bay, and a windowed passenger version that seats five. Which one you want comes down to whether you are carrying things or people. This page covers that choice, what actually fits inside, and how the Kangoo copes with Paris streets and the low-emission zone.

Cargo Kangoo or passenger Kangoo

Start with the split, because it decides everything else. The cargo version, badged Express or Van, has two seats up front and a sealed load bay behind a full-height bulkhead. The floor is flat, the sides are solid, and nothing you load shows through a window. The passenger version keeps the rear bench and side glass, seats five, and lets you fold or lift out the back seats when you need the room.

For a house move, a delivery round, or anything you would rather not leave on display, book the cargo version. The flat floor and the bulkhead make it the easier van to pack, and a closed bay is harder to break into. The passenger version earns its place when people and their kit travel together: four adults and a boot full of bags, a campsite run, a job where someone has to ride in the back. The load space shrinks fast once the seats are up, though, so a full flat move is a job for the larger Trafic.

What fits in the back

Among the vans we rent, the Kangoo is the one that fits city life most easily. It loads through a sliding side door and a pair of rear doors that swing wide, and that combination is most of the reason it works in Paris. You can load from the pavement through the side door without swinging a panel into passing traffic or the car parked beside you. The rear doors then open flat for anything long or awkward.

The cargo version takes more than its size suggests. A rough sense of what goes in the back:

• A flat-packed wardrobe or bookcase laid down
• A washing machine or dishwasher standing upright
• Around fifteen large moving boxes
• Two bikes with the front wheels off
• A folded pram, a set of garden tools, and the weekend's bags on top

With the seats up, the passenger version carries far less. Fold them down and you free a long, low floor that swallows most flat-pack and a big shop with room to spare.

Driving and parking it in Paris

On the road the Kangoo behaves like a tall car, not a truck. You sit high with a clear view over traffic, the steering is light, and it threads through the city without fuss. You drive it on a standard car licence, since it sits well under the 3.5 tonne limit, and an automatic is worth asking for if you expect a day of stop-start traffic.

Parking takes a little thought. The Kangoo is taller and slightly longer than a hatchback, so the height barriers on some underground car parks, the ones set around 1.9 metres, will turn you away. Street parking and open surface lots are fine, and the short overhangs make it easier to slot in than its boxy shape suggests.

Crit'Air and the low-emission zone

Paris runs a low-emission zone inside the A86 ring road, and the rules now turn away older Crit'Air 3 vehicles on weekdays. Most rental pages skip this entirely. It will not catch you in a Kangoo from us, because a recent rental van carries a Crit'Air 1 or 2 sticker and drives in the zone without restriction. The same sticker holds across the wider Greater Paris zone if you head out of the centre.

How we get the Kangoo to you

You do not visit a rental desk. We bring the Kangoo to your home, your office, or wherever you are loading, and we collect it the same way at the end. Tell us the date, the address, and whether you want the cargo or passenger version, and we handle the rest.

A few things make the booking lighter than the usual rental routine. We do not put a large deposit hold on your card, the kind that freezes 800 to 2,500 euros for the length of the rental. We accept debit cards, so you do not need a credit card. Mileage is unlimited, so a run out to the suburbs and back costs you nothing extra. The Kangoo is one model in our Renault rental Paris range, and the booking works the same way for any of them. To reserve one, pick your dates on gorentcar and tell us where to bring it.