PERTH: McLaren has decided to launch its new model 675LT at Geneva Auto Show. 675LT claimed to produce 666 horsepower and has the same configuration and its previous model 650S had.
The McLaren 650S is an extraordinarily impractical car for everything but going really, really fast, and a rare exotic most people will never see on the street. For next week’s Geneva auto show, McLaren will do the 650S one better, unveiling the 675LT, a new model that could be considered an even more refined version of its predecessor. McLaren’s engineers seem intent on one-upping themselves.
The 675LT is the same configuration as the 650S, with two seats and a mid-mounted engine, and uses similar design elements as its sibling, especially in the front end. McLaren notes in its press release that the new car only shares 67 percent of the parts of the old one, though.
Most notably, and an explanation for the LT (long tail) name, the 675LT gets an airbrake that is 50 percent larger than that of the 650S. That airbrake is a flap that deploys when braking, helping to slow down the car through negative aerodynamics. Long tail has some history in the McLaren brand, previously used for the GT racing versions of the F1 model that ran in the mid-1990s.
