IT feels quite bizarre to describe the McLaren Artura Spider as “entry level”.

After all, it’s one of the most beautiful cars I’ve ever driven. It’s a supercar through and through with serious motoring chops, a stunning body, and comes packed with loads of top tech.

But the Artura – a hybrid powerhouse that’s now about four years old – really is the gateway vehicle to the McLaren universe. So yes, it’s technically entry-level.

The Artura Spider is the newer version. It’s the one with the roof that goes down. Much, much more on that later.

It starts at £221,000, which is the price of a house in many parts of the country. And it started to feel like a house to me, because I spent most of my five-day road test inside the car. I felt sad handing the keys back.

This is an impossibly

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