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The Lava Car Rental Fleet: One Camper, Photographed and Specced

The catalogue behind Lava's booking widget lists 33 vehicles, three of them campers — and exactly one of those three can actually be booked: a 2024–2025 Renault Kangoo Maxi for two, automatic, front-wheel drive, and off the road entirely for the Icelandic winter. Here is what it actually is: photos, the full spec sheet, Lava's own walkthrough video, and the two camper pages still on their website that you cannot book.

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Models in the fleet

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Sleeps

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F-road legal

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With Webasto heater

Every other fleet page on this site catalogues a dozen vans or more. This one catalogues a single vehicle, and that is the finding rather than a gap in the research. Lava Car Rental is a Keflavik car-rental company with a camper segment bolted onto it: the catalogue behind their booking widget lists 33 vehicles, three of which are campers. Across 53 weekly availability checks covering a full year — August 2026 to August 2027 — exactly one of those three was ever offered. Twenty-odd cars and SUVs came back every time, and the Renault Kangoo Campervan.

That matters because Lava's own website still shows you three campers. The VW Transporter 4x4 Camper Van — three berths, four-wheel drive, a Webasto heater, cleared for F-roads — and an older 2019 Kangoo both still have live product pages, both still sit in the catalogue their booking widget reads from, and both still render a working "Check Availability" button. Neither was offered on a single day of that year-long sweep. What the sweep shows, the archive explains: their own camper listing carried three campers in May 2024, two in April 2025, and one by May 2026. The pages are what a fleet leaves behind when it shrinks.

The live consequence is a bad piece of advice sitting on their camper page today. Its FAQ answers "Can I go to the Highlands with a campervan?" with "Not all campers can go to the Highlands but our VW Transporter Campervan can. That model is a 4x4 campervan and, therefore, you can go on F-roads during summer" — and links to it. You cannot book that van. The camper you can book is front-wheel drive, flagged "No F-Roads" in Lava's own booking data, and their terms price an F-road excursion at a fine of 80,000–300,000 ISK on top of any damage, which would not be covered. If your route includes an F-road, this is not the company.

The next thing worth knowing before you plan around it is that this camper is a summer vehicle in the literal sense: it is not offered for most of the year. Their engine takes pickups from 30 April and will not accept a return later than 19 October — probed date by date, with the autumn cut-off sitting on the return rather than the collection, so a two-week trip has to be finished by the 19th, not started by it. Lava publish no window at all, and only one page on their entire site comes close to explaining the gap: the German translation of the Kangoo page, which adds a sentence the English, Spanish, Italian and French versions do not carry, recommending a four-wheel-drive camper "for a trip in autumn or winter (October to April)" — and naming the Transporter you cannot book. One consequence is quietly absurd: the studded winter tyres Lava include from 1 November to 15 April are advertised on the camper pages as a camper benefit, and the camper cannot be rented across almost all of that period.

Then there is the heater, which is the number one thing to get right about any Icelandic camper and the one Lava are least clear about. The Kangoo page's only heating claim, in all five of its languages, is an "electric plug to get electricity and heating at campsites", and the nine-item equipment list names no heater at all. Lava's own vehicle catalogue settles what that means, because it describes the three campers three different ways: the Transporter has "a Webasto heating system to ensure that you have a nice sleep during the night", the 2019 Kangoo has "No overnight heating system", and this one has the campsite plug. Their own gallery photo of the bulkhead shows the appliance — a mains fan heater with "DO NOT COVER" moulded into the case, mounted beside the 220 V socket strip. At a campsite with electricity you can heat the van; parked anywhere else you cannot, and the sleeping bags Lava supply are summer-weight Silverton Comfort 150s rather than duvets. One of their own published reviews calls "getting the newer model with the heater" a godsend, which tells you what the older one was like.

What you do get is genuinely simple, and simple has value. Insurance is bundled into the rate rather than sold at the desk (TPL, CDW, SCDW, Gravel Protection and Theft Protection), mileage is unlimited, the airport shuttle is free in both directions, the campervan kit costs nothing extra, and Lava take no security deposit at all — their debit-card page says so in bold, and the booking page badges it. The two numbers behind the word "included" are worth reading anyway: the bundled tier still leaves you carrying a 150,000 ISK excess (about €1,058 at Lava's own conversion) unless you add Full Protection at 5,000 ISK a day, and sand-and-ash and tyre cover are not in the base package at all.

There are no prices on this page, deliberately. Lava's rates move with season, trip length and how far ahead you book, so any figure typed here would be wrong within a week. The card below links straight into a live search that puts the Kangoo's real price for your dates next to every other Icelandic camper company at once.

What to know before you book this one

  • The roster was measured, not assumed: 53 weekly probes of Lava's Caren booking API covering August 2026 to August 2027 returned exactly one vehicle with a bed — class Id 1509, the Renault Kangoo Campervan. Nothing else with a bed was offered on any of those days, under any pickup location, language, coupon or trip length we could put to it. The VW Transporter 4x4 camper (Id 1245) and the 2019 Kangoo (Id 2242) still have live pages and still sit in the catalogue behind the booking widget.
  • Lava's own camper page listed three campers in May 2024, two in April 2025 and one by May 2026, according to the Internet Archive's snapshots of it. Neither retired camper's English URL is in their sitemap any more — but the FAQ on that same page still points highland travellers at the VW Transporter: "Not all campers can go to the Highlands but our VW Transporter Campervan can." It is not bookable. The camper you can book is 2WD, flagged "No F-Roads" in Lava's own booking data, and their terms fine an F-road excursion at 80,000–300,000 ISK on top of damage that then isn't covered.
  • The rental window is derived from their booking engine, not published by Lava. Pickups start 30 April; the last return the engine accepts is 19 October, and at the autumn end the limit applies to the return date rather than the collection date. Expect both to shift year to year — treat the badge as the shape of the season, and a live search as the authority.
  • "Heating" on this camper means an electric hookup at a campsite. No Webasto, no engine-off heat, nothing that works parked at a trailhead. Lava name no heater in the nine-item equipment list at all — the only claim anywhere is "an electric plug to get electricity and heating at campsites" — while their own catalogue describes the retired Transporter as having "a Webasto heating system" and the retired 2019 Kangoo as having "No overnight heating system". The photo of the bulkhead in their gallery shows a mains fan heater beside the socket strip.
  • "The largest campervan bed in Iceland" is Lava's phrasing, and it is not true. At 120 × 190 cm it is smaller than 38 of the 43 campers catalogued on this site that publish a bed size, and smaller than both other Icelandic conversions of the same Kangoo Maxi — Kuku publish 130 × 190 cm, Rent.is 140 × 200 cm.
  • Their booking engine enforces a 3-day minimum on the camper alone; every car and SUV in the same response carries a 1-day minimum, and Lava's own FAQ states a 48-hour floor with no camper exception. A 2-day camper search simply returns nothing.
  • Cancellation is stated two ways on Lava's own site: the camper pages promise 48 hours, while the terms and conditions, the site-wide FAQ and the camper's own booking page all say 24. The terms govern.

Two-berth, two-wheel drive

Lava's entire camper offering: one Renault Kangoo Maxi conversion sleeping two on a sofa bed, automatic, front-wheel drive, paved roads only, and rented for roughly the summer half of the year. There is no larger model, no 4x4 model and no budget tier behind it — everything else in the 33-vehicle catalogue is either a car, an SUV, or one of the two campers Lava no longer rent.

Renault Kangoo Campervan

Rented 30 April – 19 October

The whole fleet: a two-berth Kangoo for the summer half of the year

White long-wheelbase Renault Kangoo Maxi campervan with a small Lava Car Rental decal, photographed three-quarters front on bare autumn ground under a heavy grey skyRear barn doors of the Kangoo open on a made-up bed with two blue sleeping bags and pillows, the white cooling box stowed in the bay underneathClose-up of the Kangoo's cargo bulkhead showing a white wall-mounted mains electric fan heater labelled DO NOT COVER, next to a three-socket 220V strip with two USB portsInterior of the Kangoo campervan with the built-in table folded out and two cups on it, bench seating behindFlat-lay of the included kitchen kit: cassette gas stove with cartridge, frying pan and lid, dish rack, cutting board, utensils, cutlery, plastic cups, glass tumblers, bowl, plate and tea towels

The whole camper fleet: one Kangoo Maxi, front-wheel drive, paved roads only

Video: Explore Our Kangoo Campervan for 2 🚐 · Lava Car Rental on YouTube, published 2024

A Renault Kangoo Maxi with a sofa bed in the back, and the only camper Lava rent. It seats two, sleeps two on a 120 × 190 cm mattress, takes two large suitcases and nothing small, and drives like the small automatic van it is — heated seats, air conditioning, cruise control, Bluetooth, four 220 V sockets, three USB and two 12 V. Lava's kit list is complete enough to leave the airport and cook that night: sofa bed and mattress, sleeping kit with two Silverton Comfort 150 bags and linen, a 28 L cooling box, a gas stovetop with cartridge, a 10 L water tank, pots, pans, full cutlery and dinnerware, dishwashing gear, and two foldable chairs with a table. Insurance, unlimited mileage, road tax and the airport shuttle are all in the rate, and there is no security deposit.

  • Sleeps 2
  • Automatic
  • No F-roads
  • Hookup heat only
Base vehicle
Renault Kangoo Maxi, 2024–2025
Seats / sleeps
2 / 2
Bed
120 × 190 cm
Gearbox
Automatic
Drive
FWD · Petrol
F-roads
Not allowed
Night heating
Electric, campsite hookup only
Rental season
30 April – 19 October
Luggage
2 large suitcases, no small bags
Min. driver age
20

Best for

Two people doing the Ring Road or the south coast on paved roads between May and September, who want one straightforward vehicle with the camping kit and the insurance already in the price rather than a fleet to choose from.

Watch out

It has no self-sufficient heater — the only heating is an electric plug that works at a campsite hookup, so a cold night away from serviced power is a cold night in summer-weight sleeping bags. It is also two-wheel drive and barred from every F-road, its 120 × 190 cm bed is narrower than both other Icelandic Kangoo conversions despite being marketed as the country's largest, and their booking engine will not rent it for less than three days or return it after 19 October.

Full equipment list (25)
  • Sofa Bed for 2 with Mattress
  • Sleeping Kit: Pillows, Linen, 2 Silverton Comfort 150 Bags
  • 28L Cooling Box
  • Gas Stovetop with Cartridge
  • 10L Water Tank
  • Pots and Pans
  • Plates, Cutlery, Knives, Scissors, Glassware
  • Dishwashing Equipment
  • 2 Foldable Chairs and Table
  • Built-in Table and Seating
  • Built-in Storage Units
  • Campsite Electric Plug
  • 4 × 220V Type-F Sockets
  • 3 × USB Sockets
  • 2 × 12V Sockets
  • Heated Seats
  • Air Conditioning
  • Cruise Control
  • Bluetooth
  • Sliding Side Door
  • Studded Winter Tyres, 1 Nov – 15 Apr
  • Unlimited Mileage
  • No Security Deposit
  • Free Airport Shuttle
  • 24/7 Roadside Assistance
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Fleet questions

How many campers does Lava Car Rental actually rent?
One. The catalogue behind their booking widget lists 33 vehicles, three of them campers, and only the Renault Kangoo Campervan was ever actually offered — confirmed across 53 weekly availability checks covering a full year, August 2026 to August 2027. Everything else is a car or an SUV.
What happened to the VW Transporter 4x4 camper on their website?
It is still on lavacarrental.is, with a full product page, a spec sheet promising three berths, four-wheel drive, a Webasto heater and F-road access, and a working "Check Availability" button — but it was not offered on a single day of a year-long sweep of their booking API, and neither was the 2019 Kangoo listed alongside it. The Internet Archive dates the retreat: Lava's own camper page listed all three campers in May 2024, was down to two by April 2025, and showed only the current Kangoo by May 2026. Both retired vans remain in the vehicle catalogue their booking widget reads from, which is why the pages still render and why their own FAQ still links to the Transporter. Treat them as listings their content team has not taken down, and confirm with Lava directly before planning a trip around either.
Can I take the Kangoo on F-roads?
No. It is front-wheel drive, Lava's own booking data flags it "No F-Roads", and the vehicle page says plainly: "This rental campervan has 2WD capabilities, which means that you cannot drive it on the F-Roads." Their terms treat it as a serious breach — a fine of 80,000–300,000 ISK, with any resulting damage uninsured. Lava's camper FAQ still recommends their VW Transporter for the highlands; that camper cannot be booked, so if your route includes an F-road you need a different company.
Does it have a heater?
Only at a campsite with an electric hookup. The page's single heating claim, in every language Lava publish it in, is "an electric plug to get electricity and heating at campsites", and the nine-item equipment list names no heater at all. Their own vehicle catalogue makes the distinction for you: the retired VW Transporter is described as having "a Webasto heating system to ensure that you have a nice sleep during the night", the retired 2019 Kangoo as having "No overnight heating system", and this one as having the campsite plug. Their gallery photo of the bulkhead shows the appliance — a mains fan heater with "DO NOT COVER" moulded into the case, mounted next to the 220 V socket strip. There is nothing here that runs with the engine off away from a powered pitch, which is what the other Icelandic camper companies mean when they advertise night heating. In practice that ties you to serviced campsites on cold nights, and the included sleeping bags are summer-weight Silverton Comfort 150s rather than duvets.
Is the bed really "the largest campervan bed in Iceland"?
No. Lava publish 120 × 190 cm, which is smaller than 38 of the 43 Icelandic campers catalogued on this site that publish a bed size — and smaller than both other Icelandic conversions of the same Renault Kangoo Maxi, with Kuku Campers publishing 130 × 190 cm and Rent.is 140 × 200 cm. The genuinely large beds in Iceland are roughly double its area: Go Campers' 4x4 Wrangler roof tent at 225 × 200 cm, CampEasy's Easy Viking at 200 × 174 cm. It is a perfectly usable bed for two; it is not the biggest one in the country.
When can I rent it?
Roughly 30 April to 19 October. Lava publish no rental window — their marketing says only that the camper suits "the spring and summer seasons (from May to September)" — but their booking engine takes pickups from 30 April and refuses any return dated after 19 October, so a longer trip has to be finished by that date rather than started by it. Nothing camper-shaped is offered between mid-October and the end of April. Those dates were measured day by day and will shift from year to year; a live search on your own dates is the authority.
What is the minimum rental?
Three days for the camper, even though Lava's FAQ states a 48-hour minimum with no camper exception. Their booking engine carries a 3-day floor on the Kangoo alone — every car and SUV in the same response carries a 1-day floor — so a two-day camper search comes back empty with no explanation.
What is included, and what excess am I carrying?
The rate bundles TPL, CDW, SCDW, Gravel Protection and Theft Protection, plus unlimited mileage, the free airport shuttle both ways, the full campervan kit, road tax and 24/7 assistance — and Lava take no security deposit, though a credit-card imprint is taken and can be charged for up to six months afterwards. What "included" does not mean is zero risk: the bundled tier leaves a 150,000 ISK liability excess (about €1,058 by Lava's own conversion) unless you add Full Protection at 5,000 ISK a day, and sand-and-ash protection and tyre protection are excluded from the base package entirely. If you are paying with a debit card, Lava require you to buy Full Protection to collect the vehicle at all.
Is there a toilet or shower on board?
No. Lava's own camper FAQ answers it directly: "Campervans do not include a shower and toilet in the vehicle. We recommend using restrooms and bathrooms at local campsites and swimming pools." The same FAQ is clear that you may not park it overnight outside a campsite — since 2015 Icelandic law has required campervans to spend the night at formal campsites.
How old do I have to be, and can I add a second driver?
Twenty, with a licence held for at least 12 months, and Lava apply no higher age or young-driver fee to any vehicle class — their booking data returns a minimum driver age of 20 on all 23 classes including the camper. A second driver costs 1,200 ISK a day and must be registered; their terms void all insurance if the vehicle is driven by anyone not named on the agreement.
Are these specs guaranteed for the camper I get?
No. Lava publish a 2024–2025 model-year band rather than a single year, their own page describes the vehicle as both 4-door and 5-door in different paragraphs, and several of the figures here come from their booking API rather than their marketing pages. Everything on this page reflects what Lava published at the date stamped below; confirm anything that decides your booking with them directly.

Specifications transcribed from Lava Car Rental's own vehicle pages, booking engine and rental terms on lavacarrental.is, last checked 6 August 2026. Fleets change: model years roll over, equipment gets swapped, and individual vehicles vary. Confirm anything that decides your booking with Lava Car Rental directly.

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