McLaren 570S
Why 5.3: Entry-level in the McLaren range only by price — hydraulic steering, a carbon tub and 562 turbo horsepower in the lightest Sports Series McLaren built. It also depreciated harder than almost anything else in this index, which is what pulled in the buyers who actually drive it.
Layout
Natural habitat
Ride comfort
Sound
There is a hard flat-plane crack when the exhaust valves open, and at full throttle it is loud enough to register. But McLaren's 3.8 turbo V8 is fundamentally an industrial noise, mostly wastegate and induction, and no version of it sings.
8-cylinder · turbocharged · 7,400 rpm redline · rated 5.9 / 10 for engine sound
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €177k (2016) → €87k (2026), trending down · illustrative data
Child seats · ISOFIX
There aren't any — strict two-seater.
No ISOFIX — same occupant-sensing passenger airbag deactivation as the rest of the Sports Series.
McLaren Sports Series Owner's Handbook (owner-community sourced, not manufacturer documentation)
The long version
McLaren pitched this as the accessible end of the lineup, and the used market obliged by roughly halving the price within a few years, steeper than the 720S above it or the Ferraris it got cross-shopped against. That collapse scared off buyers chasing badge equity at MSRP, leaving the field to people who wanted the hydraulic-steered chassis McLaren is actually known for, at half the original sticker. This generation kept hydraulic assist before McLaren moved to electric racks, and the owners who found that out at bargain prices tend to keep driving it rather than flip it again.