Rent McLaren in France

From €1,600 per day.

McLaren's spider line makes a specific kind of case: two seats, a retractable hard top, and a chassis tuned to reward a driver who actually wants to feel the road rather than glide over it. In France, the marque is represented here by two cars — the 720S Spider and the Artura Spider — rather than a sprawling lineup, and that narrowness is deliberate. Each car is built around a mid-engine layout and a low, wide stance that changes how a coastal switchback or an Alpine climb reads from behind the wheel. The 720S Spider carries 720 hp, and its open-top format lets that output announce itself without a windscreen dulling the sound. It suits an early departure from a hotel forecourt, roof down, before the day's traffic settles in. The Artura Spider brings McLaren's hybrid architecture into the same open-air format — a car for a driver who wants the marque's driving character with a different power delivery underneath it, useful on routes that mix motorway stretches with tighter mountain or coastal sections. Rates for either car start at €1600 per day, a figure that reflects the specialised nature of the fleet rather than a headline discount. Booking one of these cars means arranging delivery to the address or airport specified at reservation, alongside the standard security deposit and insurance briefing that accompanies any high-performance rental — details confirmed before the keys change hands, so the only decision left on the day is which road to take first. Both spiders reward planning as much as they reward driving. A weekend built around one of these cars works best when the route is chosen with the car in mind — open roads with a few real corners, rather than dense urban circulation where a retractable roof and a wide track add little. Whether the choice lands on the 720S Spider's raw output or the Artura Spider's hybrid delivery, the handover process stays the same: paperwork settled first, so the drive itself is the only thing left to think about.