Short-term cars and vans, nationwide, since 2007
Agreements running anywhere from one month to twenty-four, on cars and on vans, prepared at Derby, York and Leeds and delivered across mainland Britain. Road tax, warranty and recovery sit inside the monthly figure. Insurance and fuel stay with you.
Go straight to whichever of these describes you, or hand the question to the finder.
Start here
Almost everyone lands here having already ruled out a three-year deal. The harder question is which of the four shapes below actually matches the next twelve months of your life. The distinction is not marketing — it changes what you pay and how easily you get out.
Everything in one figure, a short commitment at the front, then month by month for as long as it suits. Buy this when the honest answer to ‘how long do you need it?’ is that you do not yet know.
Explore subscriptions
Car SubscriptionPick a number of months between three and twenty-four and hold it. Certainty is what makes this the cheapest of the four per month — you are paying less precisely because you are not buying the right to change your mind.
Explore short-term leases
Short-Term LeaseThree months of commitment, then it simply continues until you give notice. The middle path: less than a subscription costs, and far easier to walk away from than a fixed term.
Explore flexible leasing
Flexible LeaseThe identical three structures, in panel, crew, tipper and pickup form. Six and twelve months dominate here, because that is how long contracts and busy seasons tend to last.
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Vans & CommercialLive fleet
A handful of what is on the fleet as this page loaded. Business figures shown without VAT. The fleet turns over constantly, so treat this as a sample and the showroom as the truth.
1.2 Hybrid 145 Allure
1.5 DM-I Boost
230kW Design 83kWh
EQA 250+ 140kW Urban Edition
2.0 T8 PHEV Ultra Dark
What you actually pay for
One difference matters more than the rest. Take a subscription or a flexible lease and the garage bills belong to us. Take a fixed short-term lease and they do not, unless you add them — which most agreements allow. Your quotation states plainly which of the two you are looking at.
Where we're different
Writing a lease for an established company with clean accounts requires no particular skill; any broker in the country will take that call. The work worth doing starts when an automated system says no to a business that is plainly good for the money. That is the bulk of our order book.
No filed accounts yet, so the scorecard has nothing to read and returns a no. The business itself may be thriving. We write these constantly, normally by putting more money down at the start or asking a director to stand behind it.
New business leasing
New start-up businessesYears abroad leave a gap where a British credit file should be, and automated checks read absence as risk. Our funders will look at earnings, employment and the person rather than stopping at a thin file.
Expat car leasing
Expats & overseas customersRegistered at Companies House, run from Frankfurt or Dubai or Sydney. Perfectly ordinary as a structure, and enough to stop most credit systems dead. It needs an underwriter who has seen it before.
Overseas director leasing
Overseas directors & parent companiesA catch-all for anything the standard criteria will not accommodate: young companies, foreign ownership, no domestic history. A person reads the file and decides, which is the whole point.
Non-status leasing
Non-status leasingWhether it is one car or fifty, on one invoice, delivered when each is needed, through one person who knows your account. Contracts sized to your workload rather than to a funder’s preference.
Business leasing
Business & fleetAn electric car funded from gross pay. The employee stops paying income tax and National Insurance on that slice of salary, the employer’s NI bill falls with it, and nothing leaves the balance sheet.
Salary sacrifice
Salary sacrificeNot sure which?
Rather than reading four pages to work out which contract you want, let the finder ask. It settles subscription against fixed term, then puts the matching vehicles in front of you. A minute at most.
How it works
Car or van, roughly how long, roughly how many miles a month, and where it is going. Four answers is enough to begin.
We price from stock that exists, against a delivery date we believe. Where the wait is a month, we tell you a month.
The monthly rental, the opening payment, your mileage, the rate for exceeding it, the cost of delivery. On paper, before anything is signed.
A short form online. Clean applications frequently clear the same day; the specialist cases we are known for take longer, because a human is reading them.
Prepared at Derby, York or Leeds and brought to you anywhere on the mainland — three to five working days for held stock, once the paperwork and payment are done. We collect it the same way at the end.
By the numbers
Do your homework
We will not be the lowest price on every vehicle and it would be daft to pretend otherwise. If you are going to compare, compare properly — these three are independent of us and worth an hour of your time.
Short Car Leases trades as part of Cocoon Vehicles Ltd, established 2007 and FCA regulated. If one of the others fits you better, go with them. Nobody wins from a contract that was wrong on day one.
Answers
What comes up most often before someone signs. A fuller set lives on the FAQ page.
Next step
Give us the type of vehicle, a rough length of time and the postcode it is going to. You will get back genuine availability and a written price, generally before the day is out.