Supercar rental
Klang & Port Klang

Klang is the far west end of the valley and it drives nothing like the rest of it. It is flat, the roads are wide, the traffic thins out fast once you clear Bandar Bukit Tinggi, and the run down to Port Klang and out along the coast towards Pulau Indah is the only genuinely open, sea-level road within an hour of Kuala Lumpur. In a convertible with the roof down at seven in the morning, before the container traffic wakes up, it is a much better hour than anything you will find in town.

The trade-off is surface and traffic mix. Klang is a port town, which means heavy vehicles, which means rutted outer lanes on the main approach roads and diesel film on the tarmac in wet weather. In a rear-drive car on cold tyres, the roundabouts on the Federal Highway extension near Meru deserve genuine respect on a damp morning. Stay in the inner lanes where the ruts are shallower, and give the surface time to dry before you ask anything of it.

Delivery to Klang works best on a scheduled slot, not on an on-demand basis — it is 35 minutes from the yard on a good day and considerably longer if the port traffic is bad, so we agree a window the day before. Landed housing across Bandar Bukit Tinggi, Bukit Raja and Klang town takes kerbside handover without any pass or registration. If you want somewhere to photograph the car, the Pulau Indah bridge approach at sunset is uncrowded, wide and framed by cranes, which is a very different backdrop from every other supercar photograph taken in this state.