The GT was a tricky sell new - is it any more convincing secondhand?
Let’s start with a quiz question. How many different models are there on McLaren’s website? The answer might surprise you.
Other key ingredients in a concept which McLaren described as ’superlight grand touring’ were a comfortable ride courtesy of a new Proactive Damping Control system, class-leading luggage-carrying ability and lightness of touch on the road. ESC errors have been known to occur on GTs, but these were usually fixable by turning the ignition on for 10 seconds without starting the engine in order to allow the car’s brain to have a word with itself. Cars that have been on trickle charge for an appreciable time could develop faults with the power steering or nose lift.
Ceramic brakes became standard on 2021 model-year GTs. These gave a 124mph-0 stopping distance of 127 metres and 32 metres for the 62mph-0. McLaren put a lot of effort into making them nice to use with good feel. There have been reports of faults with the parking brake. Some marque followers had been hoping for a bolder look in the GT, but you could just as easily argue that flashy styling would have been out of kilter with the car’s touring role.
The default roof was a carbon fibre composite item in gloss black but you could switch to an MSO electrochromic glazed panel that could be darkened or lightened across five levels. More than one owner living in a hot/sunny climate found that the roof would default to dark mode and refuse to lighten until the panel had cooled down somewhat. We think that might be a design feature rather than a fault. McLaren has traditionally tried to take the sting of impracticality out of supercar ownership.
Although McLaren went down the not altogether welcome route of binning physical knobs for the dual-zone climate, the machined aluminium brightwork and controls and the extended knurled aluminium controls that remained in the Pioneer and Luxe cars were beautiful. Main vehicle info and turn-by-turn sat-nav instruction was presented in an aeronautically-inspired fashion on the 12.3-inch screen directly ahead of the driver.
Traffic sign recognition wasn’t part of the GT specification and nor was radar-guided cruise control or lane-keeping assistance. Having to press the Active button to put the car into a state where it could switch drive modes seemed a bit mad. McLaren came to the same conclusion as there was no Active button in the Artura.
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