In the cabin, you’re looking at two sports seat, a grippy Alcantara steering wheel, and two relatively small screens by today’s sizeable standards.

You can have your cabin trim in full Nappa leather, or the leather mixed with Alcantara, and the audio is taken care of by Bowers & Wilkins.

The McLaren 750S will accelerate to 100km/h in 2.8 seconds, and will max out in excess of 330km/h.

In the huge-displacement world of supercars, a 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 might sound a little on the small size when put up against V10s and V12s out of Italy.

But this mid-mounted, twin-turbo powertrain perfectly compliments the overall balance of the 750S, and when its 552kW and 800Nm (fed through a seven-speed automatic) meets the lightweight McLaren, the results are staggering.

The McLaren 750S can be yours in hardtop ($585,800) or drop-top Spider ($654,600) guises.

You're not getting much in the way of niceties, though, with the McLaren 750S offering less interior tech and comforts than a mid-range hatchback (“it now has Apple CarPlay,” they exclaimed excitedly).

The McLaren 750S is a strict two-seater, accessible by ducking under the skyward-opening scissor doors before sinking into the cabin.

Standard this time out are carbon-fibre backed seats, which save weight but don't add much in the way of comfort.

McLaren says you can expect 12.2L/100km on the combined cycle, with emissions pegged at 276g/km. But you can also expect to win the lottery — it still doesn’t make it likely.

It’s hard to imagine how softly you’d have to treat the 750S to get anywhere near those numbers, but I know that you almost certainly won’t. The temptation is simply too great.