McLaren Artura Spider

The McLaren Artura Spider is the lightest way into open-top McLaren ownership. A 3.0 litre twin-turbocharged V6 works alongside an electric motor for a combined 690 horsepower, sent to the rear wheels through an 8-speed seamless shift gearbox. It reaches 100 km/h in 3.0 seconds and runs on to 330 km/h. The single-piece retractable hard top drops in around fifteen seconds at speeds up to 50 km/h, so you can open it as you roll onto Sheikh Zayed Road.

What sets the Artura apart is the plug-in hybrid system. You can pull out of a Dubai Marina basement in near silence on electric power, then let the V6 take over once you are clear of the building. The carbon fibre architecture keeps the weight down, which you feel through fast direction changes on the Al Qudra loop and in how composed it stays through the bends out toward Hatta. This is a car for someone who wants real engagement rather than just straight-line speed.

Renting the Artura Spider suits a few days of proper driving without the cost and depreciation of owning a hybrid supercar that you might use a handful of weekends a year. It is at home crossing the Palm Jumeirah crescent at dusk, parked outside a DIFC restaurant, or running the coast past JBR and Business Bay with the top stowed. We deliver it to your door, full of fuel and detailed, and collect it when you are done.