MSO reveals 'Track Theme' 720S
There's a 'Pacific Theme' too as Woking again shows off the Super Series scope for personalisation
Supercar customisation is big business nowadays. After all, who wants to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on a car that's just like your neighbour's? What began as some special paint and stitching now goes as far as bespoke specifications and even one-off builds because, as we all know, the millionaire customer is always right.
This latest pair of Super Series McLarens from MSO follows the 720S Velocity seen at last year's Geneva show, again with bespoke additions aimed at "enhancing different aspects of the McLaren supercar's core character". The Track Theme (white car) has been built at the request of a McLaren Manchester customer, while the Cerulean Blue Pacific Theme car is going to Glasgow.
The 720S Track Theme is painted Anniversary White - a nod to McLaren's F1 cars of the 80s - with hand painted accents in Tarroco Orange and Carbon Black. The external carbon has a satin finish, with the internal orange accenting switching to McLaren Orange. Note too the harness bar, 100 per cent titanium and suitable for six-point harnesses should the customer so desire.
The 720S Pacific Theme is a little more subdued and a lot more blue, the exterior featuring Estoril Blue for the darker body accents and Cobalt Blue-tinted carbon as well as the predominant Cerulean Blue body colour. Inside there's more blue (hopefully the name is making sense now, if it didn't already), with seats, stitching and steering wheel all highlighted.
Both cars come with dedication plaques to mark them out as unique, and fans of MSO will be able to see the 720S Velocity and the 570GT MSO Black Collection at Salon Prive and Blenheim Palace at their respective supercar events soon. McLaren describes these products as making an exceptional car "even more special", which kind of begs the question: what would your vision of a 720S look like, with MSO's "limitless bespoke possibilities"?
I think these schemes are brilliant. It must be a thrilling experience - ordering, specifying and personally customising cars like this. Sadly, I very much doubt I’ll ever get the opportunity to indulge, but I’m not personally offended that other people are fortunate enough and/or successful enough to do so. Anyone who doesn’t like it can surely just buy a standard one?
There was a ‘standard' 720 S at a trackday recently, and the owner is a genuinely nice bloke. It’s always nice to see him enjoying his latest McLaren on track, rather than storing it away as an investment, or posing outside Harrods.
It’s what they are there for,
They don't have a bottomless pit of money and are not supported by the government
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