RE: McLaren 720S Spider unveiled

[nickfrog]

[mikey k]

Schmees video shows the roof in action a lot better and a few other colours as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLR1eOZPDtA&fe...

[anonymous-user]

mikey k said:

Schmees video shows the roof in action a lot better and a few other colours as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLR1eOZPDtA&fe...

11 seconds is very fast! Love the glass buttresses giving almost 360 degree visibility too.

[Sandpit Steve]

Amanitin said:

WCZ said:

epom said:

Good lord baby Jesus, those times can't be real

yep, if you have good conditions and can get the power down then there's hardly any production cars which are quicker!

Those tyres though. Wider than standard, and you need earplugs to get to the strip without going insane. Must be outright dangerous in the wet. They render the car absolutely unusable for public driving.

They're on the limit of street legal, make one hell of a noise and probably don't last too long, but what astonishing performance for a stock street car.

Brooks from Drag Times (in the video) has raced pretty much every rival car down the quarter and beaten everything standard that's under a million dollars. A 918 Spyder was the cheapest car to beat the 720S, and it's four times the price.

[anonymous-user]

That's an epic amount of car for the money.

[The Surveyor]

Sandpit Steve said:

Amanitin said:

WCZ said:

epom said:

Good lord baby Jesus, those times can't be real

yep, if you have good conditions and can get the power down then there's hardly any production cars which are quicker!

Those tyres though. Wider than standard, and you need earplugs to get to the strip without going insane. Must be outright dangerous in the wet. They render the car absolutely unusable for public driving.

They're on the limit of street legal, make one hell of a noise and probably don't last too long, but what astonishing performance for a stock street car.

Brooks from Drag Times (in the video) has raced pretty much every rival car down the quarter and beaten everything standard that's under a million dollars. A 918 Spyder was the cheapest car to beat the 720S, and it's four times the price.

This shows how well they go in standard form. 2.55 seconds on the standard tyre is pretty impressive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQGg9NRun08

[anonymous-user]

WCZ said:

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0-100mph 4.9
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Holy sh 1t!

[Carl_Manchester]

E65Ross said:

WJNB said:

but fail to see the relevance of a 200+mph top speed apart from vanity & cocktail bar bragging rights.

Just out of curiosity, where do you draw the line with this? 199mph? 100mph? 70mph for a UK car?

On the road to do 180+ mph in this other than to ‘see if it works’, you would need your head looking at - Germany included. for Rear wheel only spiders like this i think it is probably irrelevant. 0-100 in sub 5 is really all you need to know, there is no relevance now to a 200mph top speed and there never really was for cars not trying to break records, especially drop tops.

Where is it relevant? well i suppose if you going to drop £3m+ on a Koneseighy it’s a requirement to know what the top end numbers are and if i was so lucky i would want to know.

Going back to this shiny new blue car in the article this without a doubt the best looking Pagani yet!

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Edited by Carl_Manchester on Wednesday 12th December 23:51