Specifications
About This Car
The road-legal race car from the 720S, opened to the sky: same twin-turbo V8, a retractable hard top, and 30 percent of its parts newly developed
Take the 720S's carbon monocoque and the discipline that comes with it, then cut the roof off without losing a gram of the rigidity that made the coupe work in the first place. That's the engineering brief behind the 750S Spider, and McLaren's answer is a retractable hard top that stows away in seconds without asking the chassis to compensate anywhere else.
The twin-turbo 4.0-litre V8 carries over from the 720S platform but with 30 percent of its components newly developed for this generation, from a faster steering rack to an extended, lighter active rear wing that adds downforce without adding drag. Output lands at 750 PS and 800 Nm, enough to send this car to 100 km/h in the high 2-second range, the exhaust note sharper and louder now that there's no fixed roof to contain it.
Standard carbon-fibre racing seats hold occupants with motorsport-grade rigidity, and the cabin runs an optically bonded infotainment screen and a movable driver display that glides into position on demand. This is McLaren's pure-combustion flagship with the roof removed, proof that dropping the top doesn't have to mean dropping the intensity.