This is the start of McLaren 2.0 - JamesTaylorCAR drives the new plug-in hybrid Artura supercar 🏁
New 3.0-litre V6 and e-motor for 671bhp totalThis car represents the next chapter for McLaren. Theis as close to a clean-sheet design as possible as McLaren Automotive gets into its second decade of car-making.
Compared with McLaren’s older tub designs now incorporates the battery housing safety cell, part of the B-pillars and the basis of the windscreen surround and lower, more helpfully shaped sills which make hopping in and out of the car far easier. Front and rear subframes are in aluminium.A direct apples-to-apples comparison is tricky because the designs of tubs old and new are so different but McLaren says that the new MCLA tub is stiffer, lighter, stronger. Theoretically, it’s around 12.
Then the engine fires up. Like the V8 before it, it’s not particularly melodious. It’s a gruff, slightly monotone note. A little like modern F1 cars, in fact. It does sound purposeful, and it’s not an unpleasant sound but it’s not an all-time-great supercar soundtrack.Good gracious, yes. The Artura doesn’t hang about, and it has recorded a 0-124mph time of 8.3 seconds and 0-186mph in 21.5.
It’s a good way of ensuring you’ll have enough charge in the battery for when you get to a town – or a pull on the left-hand stalk behind the wheel can toggle the battery between maximum charge or minimum, deploying the battery whenever possible to save fuel. Brake feel, too is remarkably consistent, since there’s no hybrid regen on the pedal. It feels the same every time you punch the pedal, and you do need to press it hard. Ceramic discs are standard. Like previous McLarens, there’s very little travel and it feels almost like a racing car in that it requires a fair bit of pressure – no bad thing. It’s the antidote to overservo’d performance cars.
The stiff chassis structure means you get faithful response from the suspension and the Artura does the same thing in the same way at each corner each lap, giving you confidence. That also means it responds well to trailing the brakes into a corner to help rotate the car.
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