The McLaren 720S Spider will change your understanding of the word 'fast.' It's loud, gorgeous and violently quick. But while many cars will beat you over the head with raw speed and fall apart in hard driving, the 720S gets better and better the more you push it.
The $411,300 McLaren 720S Spider we tested was shockingly fast and extraordinarily fun.Mack Hogan | CNBC
And while the price is midrange for McLaren, the 720S Spider is far from cheap. It starts at $315,000, but the extra options with our tester pushed that to $411,300. And while there's never a practical reason to spend that much on a car, McLaren certainly offers you a lot for your money.First, you get style and exclusivity. The 720S is a new direction for McLaren, a doubling down of the alien spaceship aesthetic.
That engine produces 710 horsepower, an utterly absurd amount of force with which to propel 2,937 pounds of carbon fiber and fury. Power goes to the rear wheels only through a 7-speed dual-clutch transmission that shifts so quickly that it'd be barely noticeable without the accompanying change in engine volume.
And the handling, my God, the handling. When you go into corners, there's a natural reaction in your brain that sets off alarm bells and screams "slow down or you're going to die." When you get that feeling in the 720S Spider, speed up and it'll still fly through the corner without any squirminess or unpredictability.
Finally, our tester had a small plastic cover for the power top mechanism fall off. We'd imagine that's why, when we encountered a storm, water leaked into the cabin near where the plastic piece had been put back on. Because this car had been constantly cycling between members of the press for weeks, a small issue like this doesn't strike us as huge, but it's a useful reminder that supercars can still be temperamental.
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