McLaren 600LT Spider review

Lots of Alcantara in here – dash top, steering wheel, seats and so on. No carpets either. And if you upgrade to the Senna’s seats you need to prepare for the inevitable bruising that comes from clambering in and out over the solid carbon shells. The 600LT might be a roadster, but it’s not a car for cruising around with your elbow out the window – not least because the window-line is so high.

But the driving position? That’s just perfect. It’s the kind of car you drop into, grab the steering wheel, wriggle yourself comfortable, sigh contentedly and just want to get going in. There’s not much to distract you. As mentioned earlier the glovebox has gone, there’s no ambient lighting or needlessly complex screen displays, and McLaren’s infotainment is relatively rudimentary – although at least stable in the car we drove.

You might, if you were foolish, have decided you can do without the aircon and sat nav/tunes. Don’t do it to yourself. Believing this will make it more collectable and therefore valuable when you come to sell it is not going to make you want to drive it while you own it.

The roof operates at the press of a single button, and if you have it up you get to use the 52-litre area underneath as additional storage to complement the 150-litre front boot.