Unfortunately you can't hire a WRC Peugeot in Corsica. Driving a normal car around Corsica's winding roads reminds you just how mad the rally drivers really are!

Picture coutesy of Peugeot-Sport

Winding roads between snow-capped mountains… Hiring a car is one of the best ways of exploring the interior of the island.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

  

Roads, Driving and Car Hire in Corsica…

You will probably need to hire a car in Corsica and you can find the best place to pick it up on one of the following tables.   

Car hire at airports 

Table 1 shows the airports.  You will find a Europcar and a Hertz at all the airports, and a Sixt at Ajaccio and Bastia.  If you book through Corsica-Isula or Holiday Autos, you’ll probably find you get the car from Hertz or Europcar in any case.

Click on the ticks to find out more:

 

Corsica-Isula

Holiday Autos

Hertz

Sixt

Ajaccio Airport

Bastia Airport

Calvi Airport

 

Figari Airport

 

Car hire at other locations in Corsica 

Table 2 shows some other locations where you can pick up a hire car from your preferred provider.  Port locations are indicated by the blue boat motif.  Click on the boats or ticks to find out more:

 

Corsica-Isula

Holiday Autos

Hertz

Sixt

Ajaccio (airport)

Bastia (airport)

Bonifacio

 

 

 

Calvi 

 

Cargese

 

  

 

Ghisonaccia

 

  

 

Ile Rousse

 

 

Porticcio

 

 

 

Porto Vecchio

 

Solenzara 

 

 

St Florent

 

 

If you enjoy driving, you’ll love driving in Corsica.  But it’s a rare enthusiast who will take his or her own car on a car ferry from England or Ireland, drive down through France, then get a ferry across the Mediterranean only to face a further drive in Corsica.

Most travellers these days prefer to fly (See "Getting there" page, link above) and then hire a car when they get there.

Driving conditions

Most of the main roads in Corsica are of excellent quality, and there have been dramatic improvements in recent years.  Having said that, don’t expect motorway conditions in the interior. Frequent rockfalls, goats, hairpin bends, and vertical drops on one side are amongst the hazards.

Visitors to the island frequently underestimate the time taken to get from A to B.  It will take you more time than you think!

Finally, a tip (from bitter experience): if you are set on driving all the way round the coast, go clockwise.  That way, you’ll leave most of the vertical drops to the people coming in the other direction!   

Some of the most fabulous views, the most fascinating villages (like Speloncata, above) and the best of Corsica’s beaches can only be accessed by car.