MELBOURNE: McLaren 650S Spider seems to be a fastest car on roads with Scissor-lift doors. The jaw-dropping car is expected to reach 100km in 3 seconds only while its expected price is said to be $600,000.
It’s one of the fastest and most exclusive road cars you can buy, although you’ll definitely be sharing ownership with the rest of the world.
Scissor-lift doors have become of the hallmarks of jaw-dropping supercars such as the McLaren ‘Special Ops’ 650s. The purposeful profile speaks of the clinical efficiency for which McLaren is renowned. The driver-focused cockpit contains lots of carbon-fibre and quality finishes. Gone in a flash. One of the most famed names in Formula 1 is forging a fearsome reputation for fast, capable road-going cars. A mid-mounted 3.8-litre twin-turbo engine is capable of propelling the feisty McLaren to 100km/h in just three seconds flat. A huge rear diffuser helps the McLaren stick to the road, even in damp conditions. Massive exhaust tips are a design feature of the rear fascia. Low ride height, a mid-mounted engine and supercar power makes for a purposeful package.
I’m chased down the road continually; dozens of onlookers offer to swap cars with me (sure, mate, that’s a fair exchange for your decade-old Astra); and I’m even followed into a car park late at night.
Parking is an ordeal, because where do you leave a machine that costs more than the average family home and resembled a gold ingot on wheels? (Answer: In a multi-storey car park, with every camera in the joint trained firmly on its expensive haunches and in-house security alerted to its presence. That’s where.)
These are the things I didn’t consider before I arrived at the McLaren Technology Centre in Surrey to take charge of this steed for three days. They became very real factors that only really disappeared for the length of a deserted stretch of coast road where I could stretch this car’s legs.
MSO stands for McLaren Special Ops division, the infinitely cool bespoke division that sprang up as the answer to a question nobody in my circles ever asks: how do I make my McLaren 650S Spider stand out from the crowd even further? Apparently almost 40 per cent of customers go for some of the options. This car is a rolling shop window for the design team, but apparently they do go even further.
