Menton – Jaguar

Clients arranging luxury car rental in Menton tend to drive it from Nice at golden hour, when the villas along the route catch the last of the light before the descent into town. Menton sits at the exact point where the Riviera runs out of France, the last stop before the Italian border, and the Grande Corniche delivers you there with maximum ceremony. Menton has been called the Pearl of France for its climate as much as its looks, warm enough to grow lemons that the rest of the Riviera can only import, and the old town still smells faintly of them in season. The road climbs above Nice and holds its altitude for the length of the coast, Belle Epoque villas and hairpin turns trading places at every curve, before dropping back toward sea level as the town's pastel facades and citrus groves come into view. Villa Genesis sits a hundred metres from the water, a quiet, blue and white counterpoint to Monaco's glitter just up the coast, built for people who want the Riviera without the volume. Menton has never tried to be Nice or Monaco. It has simply stayed exactly what it was before either of them got famous.

Jaguar has always split the difference between athletic and tailored, warm-blooded under a very English restraint in Menton. Rent or hire a Jaguar with Zeus Prestige and it arrives exactly as booked, ready for the Grande Corniche's hairpins above the coast before the descent into town.

Rent or hire a luxury car with Zeus Prestige and the Grande Corniche is exactly the kind of road built for a properly theatrical arrival.

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