With Le Mans behind us and Festival of Speed fast approaching, it’s a fitting time for Lanzante to start talking about the ‘limited production-run project’ it will reveal on the Duke of Richmond’s lawn next month. More than fitting, in fact, because its latest announcement falls on June 18th, meaning it’s been exactly 30 years to the day since the Lanzante-run McLaren F1 GTR wrote itself into the history books at Circuit de la Sarthe (see YT vid below). This, of course, is the event that serves as the inspiration for the 95-59.
Previously, this name seemed like it might be a placeholder, but Lanzante has confirmed that the new road car - and we’re reminded that it very much is a road car - will be wearing it when the covers come off. Thanks to a new picture, there is also fresh evidence of what the limited-edition model will look like. As you might expect, there is clearly a McLaren under the far-reaching redesign - although the firm remains tight-lipped about precisely which model the 95-59 is based on. Cursory inspection suggests it’s either a 720S or 750S (most likely the latter based on the exhaust) - though, of course, alternative interpretations are welcome below.
At any rate, either variant of McLaren’s long-running supercar would offer an ideal, V8-powered template - and provide Lanzante with sufficient owners/examples to see it complete a 59-car production run. Though we can expect numerous styling (and mechanical) adaptations, the 95-59 will chiefly be distinguished by its status as a ‘genuine three-seater’, with the driver back at the centre of the action, paying obvious homage to the car that looms largest in the engineering firm’s history.
Lanzante suggests that its most ambitious project yet is the ‘distillation of everything learnt and experienced over three decades of road converting, racing, developing, building and engineering some of the world’s most iconic vehicles for discerning clients’, while also promising that it has kept one eye fixed on the 95-59’s usability and ‘extended cruising range’. It even deigns to mention its luggage-carrying abilities, which suggests that the firm is casting its net as wide as possible, doubtless hoping to snare customers that actually intend to drive their investment rather than merely looking at it. Given Lanzante’s previous penchant for road conversions too exotic to ever actually see a public highway, that might be the best news of all…
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