Even McLaren must make cleaner, more efficient cars.
realized the mortality of the gasoline-fed combustion engine, it didn’t want to shock us by dropping gas altogether and going to batteries. Instead, it straddled both sciences and went with a hybrid.The Artura drops down from McLaren’s traditional V8 by two cylinders and slaps a pancake-flat electric motor where the missing cylinders used to be. The resulting hybrid powerplant makes 671 certified horsepower, 531 lb-ft of torque and relatively few emissions.
Look at those swoopy roof pillars. You can see out the back corners of the Artura better than any other McLaren.are inevitable: Both have electrified hybridized 120-degree 3.0-liter V6s sitting amidships and driving the rear wheels. Both look extraordinarily cool, and both are about as thrilling to drive as almost anything you have ever driven, guaranteed. Indeed, for a while it looked like McLaren would beat Ferrari to market, but electronic gremlins meant a delay in delivering the Artura .
There are a couple oddities in the McLaren. There’s no reverse gear in the eight-speed transmission. You back up using the electric motor. If you’ve used up all the charge in the battery then you have to charge it using the gasoline engine until it has enough juice to back you up. So plan ahead or keep it in Sport or Track modes where it charges itself automatically.
This problem is exacerbated because there’s no regenerative braking in the Artura, either. Engineers couldn’t match it smoothly with the car’s standard carbon-ceramic brakes. Ferrari managed to accomplish both tasks. Also, the EPA figures aren’t very impressive in either car if you’re looking at gas mileage, which absolutely no one here is: 18/17/21 mpg in the Artura and 20/18/22 mpg in the 296.
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