McLAREN 750S

‘THE PERFORMANCE IS OF THE LAUGH-OUT-LOUD VARIETY BUT THE DELIVERY IS SWEETLY JUDGED’ – JOHN BARKER

IT’S ALWAYS A RISK TO INCLUDE A CAR IN eCOTY before any of us has driven it (this issue’s Driven of the 750S took place after our eCoty test), but with the 750S the only real risk was it arriving in Darth Vader mode with every surface painted black and looking like a rapper’s delight. Not that a colour influences anything other than how often a photographer points their camera at it.

Before driving it we all felt we knew the 750S, and not just because its mildest of design makeovers means it looks barely any different to a 720S. An amalgam of 720S and 765LT, McLaren’s newest model is an attempt to inject more personality into its series production supercar. So it arrives with even more power (not something anyone stepping away from a 720S ever thought they needed), along with the LT’s shorter gear ratios and many of that car’s chassis upgrades, too.

There’s also the Artura’s instrument pod and HMI system, but it’s how the 750S drives that will determine how this ‘new’ McLaren fares. Hydraulic steering that has the feel of dreams; a ride quality that means it can absorb the M6 as well as it can the cracked and broken surfaces of the roads beyond. The feedback, the intuitive nature of everything a McLaren does, the blinding speed and otherworldly performance.

By being an update of a car that first arrived way back in 2017, the 750S will either perform just as expected and nothing more, or it will remind us that few make a supercar as pure as McLaren.