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TIM PITT FINDS THE MCLAREN 720S SENSATIONALLY SPECIAL
WHETHER IT’S TACKLING THE SCHOOL RUN, M25 TAILBACKS, LONDON GRIDLOCK OR EVEN THE ODD B-ROAD BLAST
HE EMAIL ARRIVED LATE ON a Friday afternoon. Would we like
to borrow a McLaren 720S for a week? I pondered the question for
all of about 0.01 seconds. Sure, go on then… For the uninitiated, the McLaren range
is split into three tiers: Sports Series (540C, 570S, 570GT), Super Series (720S) and Ultimate Series (Senna and forthcoming ‘BP23’ F1 successor). The 720S, then, is the middle-ground, but assuredly not middle- of-the-road. Figures of 2.9 and 212 – I’ll let
you figure out the appropriate suffixes – are testament to that. We first drove the 720S on road and track at last year’s launch, declaring it the new supercar benchmark. How would it fare as a daily-driver in the UK? Here’s what we learned.
IT’S BRUTALLY FAST In 2013, McLaren launched the P1: a limited-run hybrid hypercar with an £866,000 price tag. It blasted to 124mph (200kph) in 6.8 seconds and annihilated
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