McLaren Artura Review: 4 Days, 400 Miles
I just posted up a new blog on the McLaren Artura after spending 4 days with the car and driving it 400 miles:
https://karenable.com/mclaren-artura/
Thoughts on the Artura?
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Great review. Seems like the Artura really lived up to expectations, and benefited from the time they put into ironing out the development rather than putting out an unfinished car. I'm very interested to hear your opinions on how it compares to the 296 GTB.
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Enmanuel:Great review. Seems like the Artura really lived up to expectations, and benefited from the time they put into ironing out the development rather than putting out an unfinished car. I'm very interested to hear your opinions on how it compares to the 296 GTB.
Hopefully I will be able to get my hands on a 296 GTB for a few days soon.
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SSO.:Enmanuel:Great review. Seems like the Artura really lived up to expectations, and benefited from the time they put into ironing out the development rather than putting out an unfinished car. I'm very interested to hear your opinions on how it compares to the 296 GTB.
Hopefully I will be able to get my hands on a 296 GTB for a few days soon.
I'm so curious about the 296 GTB... 
I can't it explain it but this car really attracts me, the power, the price tag (reasonable for such power) and the tech.
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The 296 GTB is crazy fast. I really love the car but it is too fast for the roads, at least in Switzerland. I testeed one last summer. I first drove the Portofino and already thought this thing is fast but the 296 is a completely different story.
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Re: McLaren Artura Review: 4 Days, 400 Miles
Throttle House just tested the Ferrari 296, and based on the content, it seems appropriate to post the link here: https://youtu.be/Df7tgK-oyTA
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ISUK:Mine arrived yesterday.
Congratulations . You are going to have a lot of fun 
. The haptic cconotros on the steering wheel are a nightmare. Have you gone poverty spec this time 
? I did something similar on mine as I do not plan to keep it too long.
Re: McLaren Artura Review: 4 Days, 400 Miles
I did indeed go for a restrained budget as it's the ususal stepping stone to get an early GTS so there was no point over spec'ing it as cars over £300k are struggling to shift in the current market 
I've also done that on the Porsche behind it..... I think it is likely rarer than your Sport Classic as it's a 992 Carrera and Porsche just won't build many of those as they don't earn enough margin 
It has the Heritage Design interior in Cognac as well.
The 296 has been in the country for a couple of months but I waited to register it on the new plate. I went for a modern take on retro look and spiced up the interior a bit. I'm already at the total cost of my Emira just in options on my GTS spec which is crazy. The charging structure for paint colours is frankly just insane now.
The haptic controls aren't great but you get used to them. They are going to date the interior of this era of car though. I suspect Ferrari are going to cling on to them for at least a decade to recoup their investment rather than admit they got it wrong and rethink their whole digital dash obsession. I think their designers forget that owners use these as very occassional toys and in that scenario you tend to forget some of the haptic functions and it takes time to refamiliarise yourself with it when it should just be intuitive. It's too easy to brush the outer buttons on the wheel spokes as they are where your thumbs grip it. I think it will be much worse using this layout in the Purosangue but will wait and see. Perhaps the fact that car will likely be driven more frequently may make the layout more familiar but I doubt it. The CarPlay integration on the main screen is a mess. At least in the Roma they sorted that and migrated it over to the centre tablet display but you can't do that in the other models.
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