drive idea from Seville to Granada – thumbs up or down?

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Not true about no automatics for rent in Europe. They are available - they just cost more:-))

11 means cars for the shiftless.
All the places you're going to are served cheaply by train.

Don't you drive all the time back home? Do you know what drivers are like in Spain?

Do you know the labyrinth of Seville's streets?
Taxis are cheap there.

They ask which way you'd like to go, because there are no direct routes.

I won't go into (in many ways) parking + cost there-of. Or trying to get car from tiny medieval street, down tiny parking ramp.

And trains don't charge od prices for gas.

Gawkabout is right.

Since your itinerary consists only of major centres that are well-served by public transport, hiring a car does not make any sense.

Gawkabout - yes we drive at home, and have driven in Italy, but no I don't know what Spanish drivers are like having never been to Spain before - feel free to enlighten me ;)

I don't think the white towns are accessible by trains are they?

If we rented a car, we'd be going manual / stick - does look heaps cheaper than auto by the quotes we've had, cheers for the heads up everyone :)

Sorry i probably didn't explain this well, but we wouldn't actually be driving IN Seville at all, we'd hire a car on our way out of Seville after being there for two days, to have a bit of a road trip journey over a couple of days getting to Granada. The idea is the freedom and the opportunity to stop overnight at any white towns or coastal villages we might love on the way. I mention bigger towns such as Marbella, Malaga, Motril more as map points indicating our route plan, and not as actual places to drive in and really stay around. If we got to any small villages too, and wanted to explore them, I don't know for sure, but is it like Italy where you park just outside and walk in?

Thanks for all the invaluable feedback everyone, excellent food for thought!