McLaren has been teasing the McLaren 720s for a while now. We brought it you drifting during testing. McLaren has now officially lifted the lid at the McLaren 720s Launch at Marina Bay Sands Expo and our man on the ground Shots by Seb captured McLaren’s latest creation.
The 720s is replacing the 650S as McLaren’s new core model and as of this week, it is officially being delivered to customers. The 720s obeys all existing McLaren design rules. It is a two-seat supercar based on an all-carbon fiber tub, with aluminium space frames carrying the front and rear suspension, and it is powered by a twin-turbocharged V8. However, McLaren promise it is not more of the same, but updated in every way possible.
The 720S starts to creep up into the silly horsepower range at 720HP and with a price tag of £220,000 / $280,000 it creeps up into the eyeline of the Lamborghini Huracan Performante. It will also do 210 MPH and takes trickery out of its bigger brother P1. We could go on about the raft of updates but there is a problem, a BIG problem…
It is Ugly. No matter what angle you look at it, it just doesn’t look great. McLaren is known for their R&D. In fact, their spend far exceeds rivals, and perhaps this is where McLaren have gone wrong. They have styled it with wind tunnels and computers to gain a few seconds over the Huracan at the Nurburgring. It seems nobody at McLaren took a step back and realised the computer had created a bit of an odd looking thing. Now styling is opinion based, we understand that, but you surely have to question the mind of someone who buys a McLaren 720S over a Lamborghini Huracan Performante or a Ferrari 488 GTB.
We will have to see what it looks like when one of the Cars247 Photographers get it snapped in the wild to see if we change our mind.
UPDATE: Hunter Swift has snapped one of the first in the world in the wild 2 months before its ‘officially’ released…
