Marlowe Car Rental WordPress Theme

About

Marlowe is a dark, luxury Elementor WordPress theme for car rental companies, chauffeur services and car dealers. Large studio photography, wide confident headings and a quiet, expensive feel, for businesses that rent or sell Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Range Rover and every car in between.

It is more than a design. Marlowe comes with Marlowe Fleet, a full car rental and dealer plugin made for the theme: a booking calendar on every car, an owner calendar of the whole fleet, live inventory filters, a finance calculator, compare and history badges. It is included in your download, free, together with every other plugin the theme uses.

BUILT FOR FREE ELEMENTOR

Every page is built with the free version of Elementor, from normal Elementor widgets. Click any heading, text, photo or button and change it by drag and drop. No code, and no Elementor Pro subscription, now or later.

The car features are Elementor widgets too: drop Car Inventory, Car Search, Featured Cars, Request Form, Finance Calculator or Compare Table onto any page and choose what they show.

Your theme colours are Elementor's global colours, and every page follows the fonts you set in Theme Options.

The header and footer are set in Theme Options (logo, menu, phone, contact details and social links), so they work without Elementor Pro's Theme Builder.

EVERY PLUGIN INCLUDED, FREE

You do not need to buy anything else, now or later.

Marlowe Fleet: made for Marlowe and included in the theme. Cars, inventory filters, booking calendar, owner calendar, requests, finance calculator, compare and history badges.

Elementor: the free page builder. No Elementor Pro needed.

Contact Form 7: free, for the contact form, styled to match the theme.

WP Mail SMTP: free and recommended, so booking emails reach the inbox.

The setup installs and activates all of them for you. No subscriptions, no extra licences, no paid add-ons.

A REAL BOOKING CALENDAR

Every rental car has its own calendar. Clients click a collection day and a return day, and see the price straight away, with extras, delivery places and weekly rates included.

Booked days and days you block are greyed out, and the server checks again when the form is sent, so the same car can never be booked twice.

Choose how bookings work: requests that you confirm, or instant booking that confirms itself.

Set your rules in Theme Options: shortest rental, notice before collection, preparation days between rentals and how many months ahead clients can book.

OWNER CALENDAR

Cars > Calendar shows every car and every booking by month: confirmed, waiting and blocked days at a glance.

Confirm or decline a request in one click and the client is emailed automatically. Marlowe refuses to confirm a booking that overlaps another one.

Block days for servicing or for bookings taken by phone.

Every request is saved in your dashboard with its dates, extras and estimate.

MADE FOR DEALERS TOO

Rent, sell, or both: each car can be for rent, for sale or both.

Inventory filters by make, model, body style, fuel, transmission, year, mileage, price and seats. Results change instantly without reloading, and filtered pages have their own address to share.

A monthly payment on every car and a finance calculator with deposit, part exchange, rate and term.

Compare up to three cars side by side, with the best figures marked.

History badges: history report (Carfax, AutoCheck or your own provider), one owner, no accidents, full service history, approved used and warranty. Plus Sold, Reserved and New arrival badges.

Test drive, enquiry and part exchange valuation forms on each car.

ONE-CLICK SETUP

Upload and activate Marlowe in Appearance > Themes.

Click "Set up my site." Marlowe installs and activates its plugins, then imports every page, car, photo, sample booking, menu and setting, step by step, with a progress list you can watch.

Make it yours. Add your cars, logo, colours and words in Elementor and Theme Options.

It works on everyday hosting plans, because the import runs in small steps instead of one long request that can time out.

SIX COLOUR SCHEMES, ONE CLICK

Champagne, Rosso Corsa, British Racing Green, Le Mans Blue and Orange, Carbon Electric, and Gunmetal and Lime. Pick a scheme to fill in the whole palette, then change any single colour you like.

56 PHOTOS INCLUDED

Studio shots of all 13 demo cars from matching angles, plus cars on location, in the garage and on the road, sized for the web. Launch with a beautiful site while your own photoshoot is still being planned.

Photo licence: the photos may be used only on the one website you build with the Marlowe theme. They may not be resold, shared or used on their own or with any other theme. Need a photo in a higher resolution? Contact me.

ELEMENTOR PAGES INCLUDED

Home, The fleet, For sale, Car pages, Finance, Compare, Services, About, Reserve, Contact, FAQ, Terms

Also included: 13 sample cars with sample bookings, journal posts, a single post page, an Error 404 page, search, a transparent header over photos, a slide-out menu and a footer.

THEME OPTIONS, NO CODE

One clear panel for everything that is not page content:

Logo and branding: upload a logo, or simply type your name and set its size

Header: phone number, button text and link

Fonts: heading, text and label fonts, or upload your own

Colours, with six ready schemes, plus button styles and motion

Fleet, rentals and finance settings: currency, prices, booking rules, places and extras

Footer, social media and contact details, edited once and used everywhere

Translation of every label the theme shows

Your own CSS and tracking scripts

12 ELEMENTOR WIDGETS

For cars: Car Inventory, Car Search, Featured Cars, Request Form, Finance Calculator, Compare Table

For the site: Section Title, Price List, FAQ, Contact Form, Contact Details, Social Links

MORE FEATURES

Fully responsive for phone, tablet and desktop, with a booking calendar that is easy to tap

Child theme included, with notes on overriding car templates

Full documentation as a web page and a 24-page PDF, with screenshots

Fonts served from your own site, with no calls to Google Fonts, which is better for privacy and GDPR

Shortcodes for every car feature, for use outside Elementor

Clean, well-documented code

FONTS

Marlowe is set in Archivo, a wide, modern sans serif, with Inter for text. Both are free and included. You can also upload your own fonts in Theme Options.

WHAT YOU NEED

A self-hosted WordPress website with hosting and a domain (WordPress 6.6 or newer, PHP 7.4 or newer)

On WordPress.com, a plan that allows custom themes and plugins

Nothing to buy: Marlowe Fleet, Elementor, Contact Form 7 and WP Mail SMTP are all included free, and the setup installs them for you

WHAT YOU RECEIVE

The Marlowe WordPress theme (.zip)

The Marlowe Fleet plugin, made for the theme, included free

The Marlowe child theme (.zip)

Documentation (web page and PDF)

All demo content: 11 Elementor pages, 13 cars, sample bookings, journal posts, menus and forms, imported with one click

56 photos, licensed for use only on your Marlowe website

Free updates of the theme and the Marlowe Fleet plugin

Licence: one website. Building more than one site? Please buy one licence per website.

PLEASE NOTE

Online payment is not taken through the booking form. Clients book or send a request, and you take the deposit when they collect the car, as most rental companies do.

Car names in the demo describe the sample cars only and are trademarks of their owners.

INSTALLATION SERVICE (OPTIONAL)

Prefer not to touch a thing? For $99, I'll install Marlowe on your website, import the full demo and set your logo, colours and contact details within 2 business days.

QUESTIONS?

Launching a website can feel like a lot. Whatever your experience level, I'm happy to help before and after you buy.