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Where a Green Light Car Rental vehicle can take you in Iceland
Green Light Car Rental keeps a practical fleet with pickup in Reykjavik and at Keflavik Airport, so the right choice is less about the badge and more about the surface under your wheels. Collect your car or camper, point it east with standard insurance and 24/7 roadside assistance already included, and here is how to match a Green Light vehicle to the routes you actually want to drive, sealed asphalt classics and summer gravel alike.
Paved classics: the Fiat Doblo campers and the VW Caddy
Iceland's headline drives are all on sealed asphalt, which is exactly where the two-wheel-drive campers in the Green Light fleet feel most at home. The Fiat Doblo Maxi, from around 8,700 ISK per day in manual form, is the natural budget pick for a couple driving the Golden Circle, the day loop that links Thingvellir National Park, the geothermal field at Geysir and the thundering Gullfoss waterfall. For those who prefer an automatic on the same roads, the automatic Doblo and the VW Caddy camper, from about 10,600 ISK per day, are relaxed drive-and-sleep options that eat up the South Coast run to Seljalandsfoss, Skogafoss, the black-sand beach at Vik and, further east, the glacier lagoon at Jokulsarlon and its neighbouring Diamond Beach. Every one of these sights sits on paved road.
The full loop and the west: the 4x4 Dacia Duster
When the trip grows longer or the surface turns mixed, the all-wheel-drive Duster comes into its own. The Dacia Duster 4x4, from about 9,800 ISK per day, is the Green Light car for touring the full Ring Road (Route 1), which loops the whole island in roughly 1,300 kilometres past waterfalls, fjords and fishing towns, where the extra traction pays off over long days between stops. It suits the Snaefellsnes peninsula too, often called Iceland in miniature, where a glacier-capped volcano, lava fields, bird cliffs and the photogenic Kirkjufell mountain fold into a single scenic circuit. Travelling as a group of up to nine? The automatic Toyota Proace nine-seater keeps everyone in one vehicle for these paved routes.
F-roads and the Highlands: only the rooftop-tent Duster
The interior of Iceland is a different country, and it calls for a genuine four-wheel-drive vehicle that is permitted to go there. In the Green Light fleet, the Dacia Duster Roof Tent, from about 15,500 ISK per day, is the only vehicle permitted on the F-roads, so it is the one to take onto the gravel that climbs toward Landmannalaugar, with its ochre and rust rhyolite peaks and natural hot springs, or into the green glacial valley of Thorsmork. Two honest caveats apply. First, the F-roads open only in the short summer window, roughly mid-June to September, once the snow has cleared, and many require fording unbridged rivers that are never covered by rental insurance. Second, the two-wheel-drive campers and the two-wheel-drive Proace are for sealed roads only and must never be driven onto an F-road.
Drive and sleep: campers and the rooftop tent
If your idea of Iceland is waking beside the route rather than driving back to a hotel, Green Light has two ways to do it. The Fiat Doblo and VW Caddy campers give you a compact two-person sleeping set-up for the paved classics, while the Dacia Duster Roof Tent combines the reach of a 4x4 by day with a rooftop tent by night for those heading toward rougher ground. Whichever you choose, the same Green Light principles travel with you: standard insurance, 24/7 roadside assistance and free airport pickup, so you can collect the keys and go.
