SECOND COMING
Car and Driver|April 2023
WITH FEWER CYLINDERS AND LOTS OF NEW PARTS, INCLUDING A HYBRID SYSTEM, THE ARTURA USHERS IN THE NEXT GENERATION OF MCLAREN. WE FIND OUT WHETHER IT'S UP TO THE ROLE.
K.C. COLWELL
SECOND COMING

It's hard to believe McLaren has been in the road-car game for little more than a decade. (Granted, it was nearly 30 years ago that the McLaren F1 became the be-all and end-all for enthusiasts, but McLaren didn't produce another street car for years afterward.) Since 2011, the storied Formula 1 brand has launched several root models and completely upset the supercar hierarchy that a pair of Italian companies had long dominated. And while all of those models, including the MP4-12C, the 570S, the Senna, and the 720S, have their own character, they've all shared a very similar set of components. The Artura is new, and not like your favorite streaming service's latest round of reboots. New as in never before. Think Severance, not Bel-Air. For all intents, it is McLaren's second series-production car. And it's a plug-in hybrid.

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