Picture this: It's summertime in Monaco, and your one job is to test-drive McLaren's Artura Spider ahead of the entire world. Of course, you're going to do it with the top down.
The hard-top of this convertible version of the Artura coupe, McLaren's first hybrid introduced in 2022, retracts and tucks itself away in 11 seconds, and I drive off from the Maybourne Riviera, a stunning modernist hotel perched on a cliff and a gateway to the most soulstirring ocean views you'll find on the French Riviera.
One of the first things you notice when those signature butterfly doors swing up and you slide into those firm as Kim K's rear bucket seats is that McLaren has re-coloured its Start/Stop button from red to orange for the first time in history a prescient move, perhaps, given the McLaren Formula One team's sudden about-turn in performance in the current FI season fielded by drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, who are the main contenders of the moment dismantling Red Bull's (i.e. Max Verstappen's) years of dominance on the grid and challenging Red Bull for the 2024 constructor's championship.
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