McLaren 720S Spider

McLaren built the 720S around a carbon fibre tub, the kind of structure most rivals reserve for far costlier cars. That obsession with weight is the whole point of the car. The 720S is lighter and stiffer than its Italian competition, and its 4.0 litre twin-turbo V8 produces 710 horsepower with a response that closes the usual gap between turbo and naturally aspirated engines. The result feels more like a scalpel than a sledgehammer.

Driving it is where the money goes. Drop the hardtop and the cabin opens to the sky while the twin-turbo V8 sits right behind your shoulders, and the dihedral doors turn every arrival into a moment. Press the throttle and the car simply goes, with a precision and a lightness that flatter a good driver and reassure a cautious one. A reverse camera, Apple CarPlay and the lifting nose make the orange 720S Spider genuinely livable between the fast stretches.

On the long open roads out of Dubai the 720S finds its element. The straight runs toward the desert give it room to stretch, the dry heat keeps the tyres warm and grippy, and the car stays composed at speeds that would unsettle softer machinery. Hire it when you care how a supercar drives more than how it photographs outside the hotel.

It costs within a whisker of the other headline cars in the fleet, and it rewards you every time you press the throttle. We deliver it to your door and collect it when you are done, with insurance and delivery already in the rate you were quoted.