McLaren Senna
Why 3.8: McLaren kept the steering hydraulic when every modern rival went electric, and road testers called it the best-feeling wheel in the hypercar class. Unlike the hybrid trinity it competes with on paper, Senna owners actually track theirs — McLaren built it for exactly that, and the 500 buyers listened.
Layout
Natural habitat
Ride comfort
Sound
A top-exit exhaust ends a foot behind your head in a car with no carpet, so induction, turbo and wastegate all reach you unfiltered. But the M840TR goes flat and hollow at the top where a naturally aspirated V8 would climb. Loud rather than tuneful.
8-cylinder · turbocharged · 8,500 rpm redline · rated 7.4 / 10 for engine sound
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €1.3M (2019) → €1.4M (2026), trending up · illustrative data
Child seats · ISOFIX
There aren't any — strict two-seater.
No ISOFIX — follows the same occupant-sensing passenger airbag logic as the rest of the McLaren range.
McLaren Senna Owner's Handbook (platform-consistent with P1/720S) (owner-community sourced, not manufacturer documentation)
The long version
McLaren pre-qualified buyers for track intent and, unusually, got what it asked for: Senna ownership clusters around private track days, factory events and shipping crates bound for circuits. The styling that embarrassed it on the street excused it from boulevard duty, which quietly protected the ownership pattern — with no posing case, the car does what it was built for. Values dipped, recovered and settled, letting owners drive without watching a ticker. Among seven-figure McLarens, this is the one bought least for the badge.