Automobile manufacturers barely 50 years or even ten years younger hardly compete with big powerhouses in the same industry. An automobile company with a production unit of less than 5,000 pieces is hardly hair-raising. But somehow this British company, McLaren, is braving the odds with those numbers and joining a handful of companies that make high-end luxury cars.
McLaren Automotive is a subsidiary of the McLaren Group and is headquartered in Woking in North West England. Founded December 2, 1985, the fledgling company produces (in terms of age and technology) supercars, and they are not called supercars just for fun.
The company may have been named after New Zealand racing car designer, driver, inventor and engineer Bruce McLaren who died at a young age, but his legacy still lives on in Formula 1.
What else is there to know about this extraordinary automaker?
McLaren is a real luxury brand
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The first car ever released by this automobile company is the McLaren F1, which launched in 1992. The F1 is a sports car but can be used on public roads and the company was only producing 106 units of this vehicle at the time. As a company, McLaren prides itself on producing limited editions of its cars and not flooding the automotive market with many of their cars.
At the time, the F1 was a next generation tech product (a trait you would find on Star Trek) that found little competition. The only cars with similar speeds were the Ferrari Enzo and Aston Martin One-77, and they were produced ten and 17 years later than the F1, respectively.
From August 2021, the F1 will hold the record for the fastest production car with a naturally aspirated engine in the world, i.e. its speed depends only on atmospheric pressure. Any car faster than the F1 uses artificial means like the supercharger or turbo charger for its speed.
At first glance, the McLaren cars may be a flashy commodity and appear very expensive, but it’s a ridiculously cheap car compared to what you’d get in terms of comfort and cutting-edge technology. The reason for this is that new cars are coming to market at an amazing rate, and anyone who buys a select few series of these cars can upgrade their cars to a next model months later.
McLaren Super Series
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The McLaren Super Series consists of the 720S Coupe and the 720S Spider, although one could argue for the McLaren 650S as a super production car. Still, this argument is easy to refute as the 650S is a 25% upgrade of the McLaren MP4-12C. The main themes of the McLaren Super Series are performance and power, and this is thanks in no small part to the carbon fiber technology used by McLaren.
The 720S is the McLaren powerhouse
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The McLaren 720S was unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show four years ago and is a bigger and better upgrade than its predecessor, the 650S, with 91% new components. It’s also faster and easier. Carbon fiber technology was first adopted by McLaren when they were producing the F1.
These fabrics are incredibly light and strong and are used in shipbuilding and aerospace industries where strength-to-weight and stiffness ratios are important factors. It is five times lighter than steel and 1.5 times lighter than aluminum and at least ten times stronger than both materials. This made the 720S a tad better than its predecessor.
The McLaren’s 720S: engine and power
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The 720S is not only a fast car, the design of the vehicle is also very easy on the eyes. You’d think that jets would move ashore with this vehicle. You could still call it a jet, because it has extraordinary speeds, powered by a 710 hp twin-turbo V-8 engine and a frame made of carbon fiber monocoque.
To put the 720S’s speeds in perspective, it uses McLaren’s new M840T engine, which is an upgrade of the M838T used in the 650S. The engine has an output of 720 horsepower at 7,500 rpm, hence the name, and a maximum torque of 568 lb-ft. In a road test, it took the 720S 2.7 seconds to go from 0 to 100 km / h and reach 100 km / h in 5.3 seconds.
The McLaren’s 720S: exterior and interior
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The two-panel design of the doors of the McLaren 720S is a feast for the eyes, as the door can be rotated 90 degrees outwards and upwards with a hinge mechanism on its hinge. There are air ducts in the door that direct the air to the engine. There are also thin LED taillights and two round exhaust pipes. The exterior is a 50 percent improvement over the 650S.
It contains a two-seater cabin, and as a sports car, limited space is the norm for any car in its genre. It doesn’t have a flashy interior, but it still has its aesthetic and can be designed however the user wants. The other variants of the 720S are the 720S Velocity, the 720S Spider, and the 765LT.
The 720S and its variants range in price from $ 300,000 to $ 330,000. If you have deep pockets this is the car to splurge on.
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