Monday 24th June 2019

McLaren 600LT Spider | PH Video

We took the 600LT Spider to the beach. We very nearly didn't come back...

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We first drove the 600LT Spider earlier this year, in the States. Matt B thought it was "utterly, utterly fabulous". Prior to that, Dan P considered the coupe version probably the best new car he drove in 2018. Since then, the rest of us have driven the quickest version yet of McLaren's pocket supercar - and we're inclined to agree. Its demerits are made to seem like trifling concerns against a superlative backdrop. Make no mistake, this is one of the best cars you can buy anywhere in the world right now.

So overt and palpable is its ability, that it raises the obvious question: is the 600LT Spider the best car that McLaren currently makes? And if it is, how high is it in the shortlist of the best cars McLaren has ever made? Don't expect a conclusive answer in the next 9 minutes - these are the sort of hypotheticals that last a life cycle, and beyond - but let both questions percolate as you join Dan on England's south coast. Because, if nothing else, days at the seaside don't get any better than this.

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Simon Owen said:

Ha to clarify we were not driving the 570s, it was just part of the group. I've never owned one but having spent several days with it in the group I could just see it frustrating me to bits on UK blacktop.

I'm not in any way saying it's a bad car, it's ace, it's just that it's attributes limit its use on the road .... and massively so in the UK. Funny thing is this is supposed to be the most useable 'supercar' so God knows what all the others are like ?!?!

The clearance issue is the front splitter, it's not silly low but it projects so far from the front axle that it just scraped all the bloody time. Probably not doing any damage but not a nice sound !!!!

Edited by Simon Owen on Saturday 22 June 23:28

My splitter often scrapes on the latest type of speed bumps - sounds terrible - but that’s what it’s there for and the LT has a front lifter as well doesn’t it?

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had ham said:

Absolutely this, that is really a very ugly car. And if it drives like the last McLaren I drove, it'll be very fast, but sound utterly dreadful, and have an interior which would be shamed by a kit car. I had a Metro once, and that had an interior with less rattles - and it was 6 years old at that point.

To my eyes it looks stunning.

And your metro must have been a lot better than my nan’s used to be!

I thought it sounded excellent in the video. They’re definitely improving the sound, which I think is the cars only real weak point.

I was thinking 570 but this seems pretty special.