Mc Laren Artura review: plug in hybrid supercar leads Ferrari rival into electrified era
The McLaren Artura isn t quite McLaren Automotive s first electrified supercar, but it is its most important. Building on what the company learned by making the hybridpowered P1 hypercar first, and then the 250mph Speedtail, the Artura is intended to become the bedrock of the British supercarmaker s business for the better part of the next decade, as the world gets more used to the idea of electricallypowered models in all corners of the luxury car market, and global emissions laws clamp down ever more tightly on their entirely fossilfuelled predecessors. Although Woking says it isn t a direct replacement for the old 570 and 600 Sport Series cars, it s certainly a natural successor to them, being a close match for a 570S in terms of size, but significantly outstripping it for power to weight ratio. That gain is thanks to an allnew, wideangle turbo V6 combustion engine and a supercompact axial flux electric drive motor, which between them produce up to 671bhp but which can
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