We left San Diego shortly after sunrise, before the day’s commuters could clog up the highways that lead through the forests east of the city and across the open desert to the Palm Springs area. This route, starting with a glimpse of the Pacific and ending in a valley that sees at most 5 inches of rain yearly, makes for an ideal run to sample McLaren’s 612-horsepower GT on some of the best roads in Southern California.
With our strikingly bright Tokyo Cyan–finished McLaren
