Rent McLaren in Lisbon

From €1,600 per day.

Two McLaren spiders sit in the Lisbon collection, and each asks for a different kind of morning. The 720S Spider, with 720 hp under its retractable hardtop, rewards an open road and a clear sky — the kind of drive that suits the coastal stretch toward Cascais and Estoril when the tarmac is dry and the Atlantic light is low. The Artura Spider, McLaren's newer plug-in hybrid convertible, brings a quieter, more modern character to the same idea: a car that can slip through Avenida da Liberdade traffic in electric mode before opening up once the road clears. Both are two-seat cars built for occasion rather than errand-running — a wedding arrival, a birthday weekend, a controlled morning on a coast road rather than a daily commute through Alfama's narrow lanes. Rental starts at €1600 a day, and either car can be delivered to a hotel on Avenida da Liberdade, to Lisbon Airport, or to a private residence, with the handover timed to when the client actually wants to drive rather than to a fixed counter hour. Before the doors are handed over, our team runs through toll setup for the A2 and A5 — useful if the day includes a run south toward Arrábida or west along the coast — and flags anything worth knowing about parking once the destination has narrow streets or a busy square. It is a short conversation, but it saves the kind of small friction that shouldn't intrude on a drive in either of these two cars.