McLaren Artura
Why 4.0: McLaren's first hybrid and the first McLaren without hydraulic steering — a genuinely quick twin-turbo V6 plus electric motor, launched into a wave of well-documented early reliability recalls that real owners had to live through. The hardware has since matured faster than the reputation has.
Layout
Natural habitat
Ride comfort
Sound
The 120-degree V6 revs to 8,500 through a top-exit exhaust and is a clear improvement on McLaren's turbo V8s. It is still a small-capacity blown six with an electric motor covering the gaps, and a good deal of low-speed running happens in silence.
6-cylinder · turbocharged · 8,500 rpm redline · rated 6.5 / 10 for engine sound
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €218k (2022) → €179k (2026), trending down · illustrative data
Child seats · ISOFIX
There aren't any — strict two-seater.
No ISOFIX; a capacitance mat plus seatbelt-buckle sensing auto-deactivates the passenger airbag for a fitted child seat.
McLaren Artura Owner's Handbook
The long version
Early Artura owners got a production halt and a 12-volt battery recall for their trouble, the kind of launch-year trouble that lingers in resale sentiment long after the fix ships. That caution shows up in how the used market treats early cars, discounted relative to what the powertrain's on-paper numbers would otherwise justify. Buyers arriving now tend to be people who did the reliability homework and are betting the worst is behind it, not people chasing hybrid-supercar theater. McLaren's own depreciation reputation, earned honestly by the 720S, is doing the rest of the work here.