Car Subscriptions
One payment covers everything but insurance and fuel. Short minimum term, then month to month — the lowest-commitment way to have a car.
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Four ways to lease a car short-term, laid out plainly
Subscription, flexible lease, fixed lease, or long-term hire — four different shapes, four different price points, solving different problems. This page is here to help you pick the right one rather than guess.
In short
“Short-term car leasing” is an umbrella term for any car agreement running roughly 1 to 24 months, as opposed to the 24-to-48-month span of conventional leasing. Four distinct products sit under it: a car subscription (rolling monthly, all-inclusive, short minimum term), a flexible lease (short tie-in, then notice-based), a fixed short-term lease (set months, the cheapest rate of the four), and long-term car hire (rental stretched over months). All four bundle in maintenance, servicing, road tax, warranty and breakdown cover, leaving you to sort insurance and fuel. Stock is dispatched from our Derby, York and Leeds sites into central London and every surrounding borough.
Choose properly
The four options, compared honestly
The right answer comes down to one question: how confident are you about how long you need the car?
| Car subscription | Flexible lease | Fixed short-term lease | Long-term car hire | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Typical minimum term | From 1 month | From 1 month | 3–24 months, fixed | 1 month |
| What happens after | Rolls on, 5 working days' notice | Rolls on, 5 working days' notice | Ends on the agreed date | Rolls, renewed periodically |
| Keep it how long? | Until 3 years old | Until 3 years old | To the end date | Open-ended |
| Relative monthly cost | Highest | Middle | Lowest | High |
| Initial payment | Usually 1 month | 1–2 months | 1–3 months | Usually none |
| Maintenance included | Yes | Yes | Optional | Yes |
| Road tax included | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Insurance included | No | No | No | Sometimes |
| Can you exit early? | Yes, 5 working days' notice | Yes, 5 working days' notice | Not without a settlement | Yes |
| Best when | Plans may change | Probably 6+ months | You know the end date | Very short or uncertain |
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Flexible Car Leasing
A three month minimum, then a rolling agreement with notice. Cheaper than a subscription, far easier to leave than a fixed lease.
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Flexible Car LeasingShort-Term Car Leasing
Fixed contracts from 3 to 24 months at the lowest monthly rate of the four. The default choice once your dates are known.
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Short-Term Car LeasingLong-Term Car Hire
Rental extended across months rather than days. Simplest to arrange, usually the priciest per month beyond a few weeks.
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Long-Term Car HireElectric Car Subscriptions
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Subscription vs LeasingBy term
Popular contract lengths
Two terms account for most of what we supply. Both have dedicated pages with current pricing context.
6 Month Car Lease
Our single most requested term — long enough to be materially cheaper than rental, short enough to cover a contract, a relocation or a gap between cars.
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6 Month Car Lease12 Month Car Lease
The best monthly rate in short-term leasing. Spreads depreciation over twice the payments of a 6 month deal, so the per-month figure drops noticeably.
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12 Month Car LeaseBy brand
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Straight to the brands we supply most often on short contracts.
Answers
Frequently asked questions
Notice period, mostly. A subscription runs a short minimum term and then just keeps going until you tell us to stop, so you can hand back or swap as things change. A lease locks in a fixed number of months from the outset. You'll pay more per month on the subscription — that gap is the price of being able to walk away whenever.
One month, on selected stock, stretching to 24 at the far end. Six and twelve months account for most of what actually gets taken. Compare that with conventional leasing, which typically starts where ours finishes — 24 months, running to 48.
Fewer payments absorbing the same depreciation. A 48 month contract spreads the car's value loss thinly; ours compresses it into far fewer months, so each one carries more weight. In return you get to stop far sooner — worth it if there's any real chance your circumstances shift inside three years.
Yes, across the whole range, priced with VAT included. Business customers see the VAT-exclusive figure instead and can often reclaim a portion of it.
Quoted monthly rather than annually — typically 833, 1,000, 1,500 or 2,000 miles. Ask for more and it's simply priced into the monthly figure. Go over, and a pre-agreed pence-per-mile rate applies, stated before you sign anything.
Next step
Get a written quote on any car in our fleet
Tell us what you need and when you need it. We will come back with real availability and a written quote — usually the same working day.