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Car Rental in Chennai with Driver — Published Rates, Named Drivers, No Slab Rounding
Sedan to 14-seat tempo traveller, with driver, for local hire, airport runs and outstation. The rate card is on this page, the extras are named before you book, and 8 hours is billed as 8 hours.
- Fuel + driver + 5% GST in the price
- Garage-to-garage stated on the quote
- Driver name & number the evening before
- GST invoice on every trip
Chennai car rental at a glance
The rate card, on the homepage, with the extras named
The figures we quote on the phone. Every band includes vehicle, driver and fuel; toll, parking, permit and hill charges are at actuals, and 5% GST is its own line on the invoice.
| Vehicle | 4 hr / 40 km | 8 hr / 80 km | 12 hr / 120 km | Extra km | Extra hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SedanSwift Dzire, Etios, Aura · 4 seats | ₹1,200 – 1,500 | ₹2,300 – 2,600 | ₹3,200 – 3,600 | ₹13 – 15 | ₹200 – 250 |
| Ertiga / CarensCompact MUV · 6 seats | ₹1,600 – 1,900 | ₹2,900 – 3,300 | ₹4,000 – 4,600 | ₹16 – 18 | ₹250 – 300 |
| Innova7 seats | ₹1,800 – 2,100 | ₹3,400 – 3,800 | ₹4,600 – 5,200 | ₹17 – 19 | ₹300 |
| Innova Crysta7 seats · most booked | ₹2,200 – 2,600 | ₹4,200 – 4,600 | ₹5,600 – 6,400 | ₹20 – 23 | ₹350 – 400 |
| Tempo Traveller12, 13 or 14 seats | ₹3,000 – 3,600 | ₹4,800 – 5,600 | ₹6,500 – 7,500 | ₹21 – 24 | ₹400 – 500 |
Rates verified September 2026
Excludes toll, parking, permit and hill charges · 5% GST shown separately · Outstation trips are per km + driver bata, see below
8 hours means 8 hours
Some Chennai rate cards treat anything above 7 hours as a 10-hour slab. We bill the package you booked plus the extra hour rate.
Garage-to-garage, in writing
Chennai counts kilometres yard-to-yard, aggregators door-to-door. Your quote says which one applies, so 80 km is really 80 km.
One price, one invoice
The figure we quote is the figure you pay, with a GST invoice from Winmaxi Holidays & Travels Pvt Ltd on every trip.
Our fleet
Sedan to 14-seat tempo traveller, all with driver
Five classes, each with its 8 hr / 80 km price and outstation per-km rate. Pick by passengers and luggage, not by what an app has nearby.
Best value
Most booked
GroupsTempo Traveller 12 – 14
- 12 – 14 seats
- 12+ bags
Outstation ₹21 – 24 / km
8 hr / 80 km₹4,800 – 5,600Rates
Need 17 seats or more? This site stops at the 14+1 tempo traveller, where the market's own price class breaks. Our bus division at chennaibusrentals.com handles 17+1 tempo travellers, minibuses and coaches with its own rate card.
Local packages
4 hours, 8 hours or 12 hours — billed as booked
Local hire is sold by the slab: hours and kilometres together, whichever runs out first. Sedan and Crysta below; the rest are on the rate card.
4 hr / 40 kmHalf day
Meetings, a hospital visit, a temple run
Central to Mylapore and back with two stops, or an airport drop with a wait.
- Sedan₹1,200 – 1,500
- Innova Crysta₹2,200 – 2,600
- Extra hour, sedan₹200 – 250
8 hr / 80 kmFull day · most booked
A full city day or a Mahabalipuram return
Central to the Shore Temple and back is about 120 km: this slab plus 40 extra km is the honest price.
- Sedan₹2,300 – 2,600
- Innova Crysta₹4,200 – 4,600
- Extra km, sedan₹13 – 15
12 hr / 120 kmLong day
Wedding duty, site visits, a guest's whole day
Car starts at 7 am, finishes after dinner. No 15-hour re-slab at hour 13 — only the extra hour rate.
- Sedan₹3,200 – 3,600
- Innova Crysta₹5,600 – 6,400
- Extra hour, Crysta₹350 – 400
We do not round 8 hours up to 10
The small print on a typical Chennai rate card reads:
"Above 7 Hrs will be treated as 10 Hrs and above 12 Hrs will be treated as 15 Hrs."
So an 8-hour booking is silently billed as a 10-hour slab. With us, book 8 hours and use 9 and you pay the 8-hour package plus one extra hour at ₹200 – 250 on a sedan. Nothing else.
Chennai airport transfers
MAA to the city: the counter fare, and ours
The prepaid counter is the honest benchmark, so we print it beside our pre-booked price: a fixed all-in figure, no surge, a name board at arrivals and a tracked flight.
Sedan ₹800 – 1,200Pre-booked, all-in, MAA ↔ city · SUV / Innova ₹1,200 – 2,500
- 10 minutes free time entry-to-exit; beyond that, car park charges at the AAI tariff. We time the entry to your landing.
- Night surcharge ₹150 – 250 midnight to 5 am, stated on the quote. No other extras.
- On a budget? The Tirusulam suburban train is ₹10 – 25 and the MTC airport bus ₹25 – 60. We say so because it is true.
| MAA to | Distance | Prepaid counter | Pre-booked sedan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guindy / Little Mount | 7 km | ₹200 – 300 | ₹800 – 1,200 |
| T. Nagar | 12 km | ₹350 – 480 | ₹800 – 1,200 |
| Anna Salai / Mount Road | 16 km | ₹400 – 550 | ₹800 – 1,200 |
| Chennai Central / Egmore | 20 km | ₹450 – 600 | ₹800 – 1,200 |
| OMR / Sholinganallur | 22 km | ₹550 – 700 | ₹800 – 1,200 |
| Siruseri / far OMR | 35 km | ₹750 – 950 | ₹1,000 – 1,200 |
| Mahabalipuram | 60 km | ₹1,300 pre-booked | from ₹1,300 |
Rates verified September 2026
Pre-booked sedan is fixed at booking within the band shown; SUV / Innova ₹1,200 – 2,500 · Night surcharge extra midnight – 5 am
Outstation from Chennai
Round trips with the bata, permit and toll named
Per km with a 250 km/day minimum (300 km in Karnataka) plus driver bata: sedan ₹13 / km, Innova ₹17 – 18, Crysta ₹20 – 23, tempo traveller ₹21 – 25. Tolls and permits at actuals.
~140 km2.5 – 3.25 hrChennai → Tirupati
- Sedan, day return≈ ₹4,100 – 4,300
- Sedan, one-way₹2,400 – 3,250
- Innova, one-way₹3,500 – 4,600
+ AP inter-state permit and tolls at actuals
Usual: day tripFare table
~165 km~3.5 hr via ECRChennai → Pondicherry
- Sedan, day return≈ ₹4,800 – 4,900
- Sedan, one-way₹1,400 – 2,900
- Innova, one-way₹3,400 – 4,200
Tolls at actuals; Mahabalipuram stop on request
Via ECR or GST RoadFare table
330 – 350 km~8 hrChennai → Bangalore
- Sedan, 2-day return≈ ₹8,800 – 10,300
- Sedan, one-way₹4,892 – 5,634
- Innova, one-way₹6,900 – 7,741
+ Karnataka permit; 300 km/day minimum
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~140 km~3 hrChennai → Vellore
- Sedan, day return≈ ₹4,100 – 4,300
- Sedan, one-way₹2,100 – 2,600
- Innova, one-way₹3,000 – 3,600
CMC and Golden Temple runs; tolls at actuals
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Also priced: Chennai to Mahabalipuram taxi (55 – 60 km, best as a day package) and Chennai to Ooty cab (555 km, hill charge ₹300 sedan / ₹500 MUV). Want hotels and sightseeing bundled with the Ooty drive? Our sister site ootytourstravelss.com sells Ooty tour packages; we sell the car and the driver.
What's included and what isn't
Read this before you compare our quote with a "from ₹" teaser
Aggregator prices hide bata, permit and minimum km until the driver is at the door. This is our whole list.
In the quoted price
- Vehicle, fuel and a police-verified driverLocal packages carry no driver bata at all.
- 5% GST — shown as its own line, not buriedOthers say "extra" or "inclusive". We say the amount.
- Driver's name and mobile number the evening before
- Flight tracking and a name board at airport pickups
- GST invoice from Winmaxi Holidays & Travels Pvt Ltd
Paid at actuals, listed separately
- Toll and parking — receipts handed over
- Inter-state permitAndhra Pradesh for Tirupati, Karnataka for Bangalore.
- Hill-station charge ₹300 sedan / ₹500 MUVOoty, Kodaikanal, Yercaud, Yelagiri, Kolli Hills.
- Driver bata on outstation days — table alongside
- Night charge ₹200 (11 pm – 5 am) and waiting ₹150 / hour on one-way dropsExtra luggage or an extra passenger on a drop: ₹300.
Garage-to-garage vs door-to-door
Chennai operators count km and hours from the moment the car leaves the yard — rate cards literally say "km starting and closing, office to office". Aggregators count from your door. Neither is wrong, but a quote that doesn't say which is not a quote.
Garage-to-garageThe 80 km in an 8 hr / 80 km package starts at our yard. A pickup 12 km away leaves you about 56 km of your own driving.
Door-to-doorThe 80 km starts and ends at your gate. Same package, a genuinely different day.
Every Winmaxi quote states the basis in its first line, with the yard distance to your pickup, so you can do the sum before you say yes.
Driver bata per day, 2026
| Sedan | ₹500 – 600 |
| Innova | ₹600 |
| Innova Crysta | ₹700 – 800 |
| Tempo Traveller 12 – 14 | ₹700 – 800 |
Round-trip figures, per calendar day including the return day. One-way drops: a single ₹400 – 500 bata (sedan), ₹600 beyond 400 km.
Corporate, wedding & medical
Three kinds of booking where nobody publishes a price. We do.
Elsewhere these are "call us" pages. Ours carry the bands, the compliance detail and the SLA.
Corporate & monthly rental
Dedicated car on a 26-day, 10 hr / 250 km-a-day retainer, or ad-hoc cabs on one monthly invoice.
- Sedan ₹42,000 – 55,000 / month · Innova ₹58,000 – 72,000 · Crysta ₹75,000 – 95,000
- Tamil Nadu 24×7 rules require employers to provide transport for women on night shifts — we roster for it, with GPS and a named escalation contact.
- Monthly reconciled GST invoice; ITC position explained on the page.
Wedding & luxury cars
Decorated Crysta or Carnival for the couple, Camry, Mercedes E-Class and Fortuner for the family, a convoy of Innovas or tempo travellers for guests.
- Decorated Crysta / Carnival ₹8,000 – 15,000 a day; Mercedes E-Class ₹25,000 – 40,000 a day
- Decoration and cleaning charges stated up front, not added on the day
- Muhurtham timing and multi-venue logistics planned with the family
Medical patient transport
Airport-to-hospital transfers and treatment-period standby for Apollo Greams Road, MIOT, Fortis Malar, Gleneagles Global, SIMS and Kauvery, plus referrals to CMC Vellore, 140 km away.
- High-roof, flat-floor vehicles with wheelchair space and attendant seating
- Drivers briefed on hospital gates, IP blocks and discharge timings
- Weekly and monthly standby packages fixed in writing before you fly
Why Winmaxi
Four things a booking app cannot give you
Published prices, dated
A rate card on the site, verified each quarter with a changelog — not a "from ₹" teaser from an algorithm.
A named coordinator
One person owns your booking from quote to invoice; the driver's name and number reach you the evening before.
No slab rounding
8 hours is billed as 8 hours, 12 as 12. Extra time is the extra hour rate, never a jump to the next slab.
A registered company with GST
Winmaxi Holidays & Travels Pvt Ltd is a Tamil Nadu private limited company with a registered office, not a microsite with a mobile number.
About Chennai Car Rentals
Chennai Car Rentals is the Chennai chauffeur-car brand of Winmaxi Holidays & Travels Pvt Ltd, a Coimbatore-registered operator at 9/5 Subramaniam Road, Ramanathapuram, Coimbatore 641045. We run cars with drivers across Chennai — Anna Nagar and Ambattur in the north to Tambaram, OMR and Sholinganallur in the south — and out to Tirupati, Pondicherry, Mahabalipuram, Vellore, Bangalore and the hill stations.
We are not an aggregator. Every vehicle here is one we operate or contract directly, every driver is police-verified, and every price is one we must honour on the invoice. Hours are 6 am to 11 pm every day on +91 89254 44011; the Chennai yard address is on the contact page.
Service areas across Chennai
Pickup anywhere in the city, Central to Sholinganallur
Airport, Central, Egmore and Tambaram get a name board. Anywhere else, give us the area and we tell you the yard distance up front.
- Chennai Airport (MAA)
- Anna Nagar
- T Nagar
- Velachery
- OMR
- Adyar
- Guindy
- Porur
- Tambaram
- Ambattur
- Sholinganallur
- Central & Egmore stations
Fare calculator
Work out the whole bill before you call
Pick a vehicle, a route and the days; the calculator adds minimum km, bata, hill charge and GST the way our invoice does, so the estimate matches the final bill.
Worked example · Tirupati day return, sedan
- Distance, garage to garage~280 km
- 250 km/day minimum — met280 km × ₹13
- Kilometre charge₹3,640
- Driver bata, 1 day₹500 – 600
- AP permit + tollsat actuals
- Estimate before permit & toll≈ ₹4,140 – 4,240
0Vehicles, sedan to 14-seat
0Trips completed in Chennai
0Corporate & hospital accounts
0Average written quote on WhatsApp
What customers say
Quoted on Monday, invoiced on Friday, same number
Crysta to Tirupati, day return. The quote listed km, bata and "AP permit at actuals" as separate lines and the invoice matched to the rupee. Driver's number came the evening before.
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Ramesh K.Velachery · Tirupati day trip
Moved our night-shift women's transport for the OMR office to Winmaxi. Fixed monthly invoice, GPS on the cars, one coordinator who picks up at 2 am.
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Shalini M.Admin manager, IT services · Sholinganallur
My father was at MIOT for three weeks. High-roof vehicle on standby, a driver who knew the gate, and a weekly price fixed before we left Dhaka.
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Tanvir H.Patient attendant · MIOT International
FAQ
The questions people ask before booking
What is the car rental rate per km in Chennai?
For outstation trips a sedan is ₹13 to ₹15 per km, an Ertiga ₹16 to ₹18, an Innova ₹17 to ₹19, an Innova Crysta ₹20 to ₹23 and a 12 to 14 seat tempo traveller ₹21 to ₹24, plus driver bata. Local hire is sold as 4, 8 or 12 hour packages instead of per km; extra km on a sedan are ₹13 to ₹15.
What does garage-to-garage billing mean?
Chennai operators count kilometres from the moment the car leaves the yard until it returns, not from your door. A pickup 12 km from our yard adds about 24 km to the day. We state on every quote whether the km count is garage-to-garage or door-to-door, so an 80 km package is not a surprise 56 km one.
Is toll included in the price?
No. Tolls, parking, inter-state permits and hill-station charges are paid at actuals and listed separately on the invoice. Fuel, driver and 5% GST are in the quoted figure. On the Chennai to Tirupati road, for example, the Andhra Pradesh permit is an extra line, never buried in a per-km rate.
What is driver bata and how much is it?
Bata is the driver's daily allowance on outstation trips, charged per calendar day. In 2026 it is ₹500 to ₹600 a day for a sedan, ₹600 for an Innova, ₹700 to ₹800 for an Innova Crysta and ₹700 to ₹800 for a tempo traveller. Local packages inside Chennai do not carry bata.
How long will the driver wait at Chennai airport?
Airport free time is 10 minutes from entry to exit, after which multi-level car park charges apply at the AAI tariff. We track your flight, so a delay of an hour costs nothing extra. Between midnight and 5 am a night surcharge of ₹150 to ₹250 applies, and we tell you before you book.
Is there a minimum km for outstation trips?
Yes. Round trips are billed at a minimum of 250 km per calendar day, or 300 km per day in Karnataka. One-way drops carry a minimum of 130 to 250 km for a sedan and 250 to 300 km for an Innova or tempo traveller. If you drive less, the minimum applies; if you drive more, you pay the per-km rate.
Do you have a 15-seater or 17-seater tempo traveller?
We run tempo travellers from 9 seats up to 14 plus 1 on this site. That is the market's own price class: 12+1, 13+1 and 14+1 are billed as one tier. For 17 seats and above, minibuses and coaches, our bus division at chennaibusrentals.com handles the booking with its own rate card.
How do I book a car with driver in Chennai?
Send the pickup point, date, vehicle and passenger count through the form or on WhatsApp at +91 89254 44011. You get a written all-in quote, usually within 30 minutes between 6 am and 11 pm. Confirm with a small advance, and the driver's name and mobile number reach you the evening before the trip.
Three quotes to compare? Make ours the one with everything on it.
Pickup, date, vehicle, passengers — that's all we need. Written all-in price back on WhatsApp, 6 am to 11 pm, every day.