McLaren 570S: A supercar available at production levels

YOU can’t have everything in a car, right? Power, precision, poise, prestige, practicality — pick two or three and be happy.

But as I drove outside Geneva last week, past soggy Swiss fields and through those tiny French towns with tiny French diners that charmingly and frustratingly close between lunch and dinner, I couldn’t help but marvel at how generally on-target the 2017 McLaren 570S seemed for all of them. Draw a Venn diagram with each of those attributes, and this piece of art falls pretty close to the centre.

The 570S is the latest on-the-market offering in McLaren’s lineup, flanked by a 570GT sister model that is slightly bigger and slower but has a cool glass hatch across the back.