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Launched in March 2017 at the Geneva Motor Show, the 720S is a big step forward for McLaren Automotive. Two years on, the British company is hard at work with the development of the Long Tail – a.k.a. 750LT.
A chassis testing mule has been spied at the Nurburgring, painted in matte black and featuring dive planes up front. The canards are complemented by a deeper lip spoiler, and as you can tell, there’s something work-in-progress about this car. The rear spoiler/wing gives the same feeling, a clear indicator that McLaren still has plenty more to do until the real deal will be shown.
Super-sticky tires and lightweight wheels without center caps, carbon-ceramic brakes, a roll cage, and no sound deadening material on the rear shelf are a few other particularities of the pictured prototype, so let’s move on to what the rumor mill expects from the land missile from Woking.
As the rumored nameplate implies, 750LT stands for 750 PS and Long Tail. That’s 740 horsepower from 4.0 liters of displacement, two turbos, and no hybridization whatsoever. The Senna churns out 800 PS or 789 horsepower from an upgraded version of the M840T called M840TR.
Torque should also improve, somewhere between the 770 Nm (568 pound-feet) of the 720S and 800 Nm (590 pound-feet) of the Senna. There’s no denying McLaren will use Senna tech in the 750LT, but to what extent?
As an evolution of the 675LT, there’s no denying the 750LT will have to blow everyone’s mind away. A proper driver’s car with lots of know-how from the brand’s Formula 1 heritage, another certainty about the newcomer is that McLaren will price the limited-edition model accordingly.
The 675LT coupe and spider stopped production after a grand total of 1,000 examples were completed. McLaren Automotive’s approach changed with the 600LT, limited to one year’s worth of production for each body style. All we can do for the time being is wait patiently for Macca to spill the beans.
Mike Flewitt, the chief executive officer of the British automaker, let it slip the 750LT or whatever it will be called will be presented in 2020. Given these circumstances, the U.S. could get it for the 2021 model year.
Super-sticky tires and lightweight wheels without center caps, carbon-ceramic brakes, a roll cage, and no sound deadening material on the rear shelf are a few other particularities of the pictured prototype, so let’s move on to what the rumor mill expects from the land missile from Woking.
As the rumored nameplate implies, 750LT stands for 750 PS and Long Tail. That’s 740 horsepower from 4.0 liters of displacement, two turbos, and no hybridization whatsoever. The Senna churns out 800 PS or 789 horsepower from an upgraded version of the M840T called M840TR.
Torque should also improve, somewhere between the 770 Nm (568 pound-feet) of the 720S and 800 Nm (590 pound-feet) of the Senna. There’s no denying McLaren will use Senna tech in the 750LT, but to what extent?
As an evolution of the 675LT, there’s no denying the 750LT will have to blow everyone’s mind away. A proper driver’s car with lots of know-how from the brand’s Formula 1 heritage, another certainty about the newcomer is that McLaren will price the limited-edition model accordingly.
The 675LT coupe and spider stopped production after a grand total of 1,000 examples were completed. McLaren Automotive’s approach changed with the 600LT, limited to one year’s worth of production for each body style. All we can do for the time being is wait patiently for Macca to spill the beans.
Mike Flewitt, the chief executive officer of the British automaker, let it slip the 750LT or whatever it will be called will be presented in 2020. Given these circumstances, the U.S. could get it for the 2021 model year.
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