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"McLaren releases special edition 750S as tribute to 'Triple Crown'
Woking's most intricately detailed livery is coming to six cars - all of which are sold!
covers off the firm’s most exacting bespoke livery yet in order to celebrate its ‘Triple Crown’ motorsport success.
The intricately detailed paint on the McLaren 750S commemorates McLaren winning the Monaco Grand Prix, 24 Hours of Le Mans and Indianapolis 500 and is part of wider celebrations of the company’s 60th birthday.
IndyCar driver Pato O’Ward and Le Mans winner Derek Bell joined Norris at a motorsports festival called Velocity International, in California, to reveal the 750S supercar. Five more cars, which will be either coupe or Spider, will have the ‘3-7-’59’ livery. All six have already been sold.
The three in the name represents the number of the 1974 Indy 500 winner, the seven is the company’s maiden Monaco Grand Prix win in 1984 and the 59 belongs to 1995’s 24 Hours of Le Mans winning McLaren F1 GTR.
The flowing artwork takes more than 1200 hours to paint and combines 20 different colours. The work is carried out by paint technicians at McLaren Special Operations (MSO).
Inspiration for the colours comes from the race winning cars. The white and red livery of the McLaren MP4/2, with that car’s ‘7’ race number is worn on the bonnet.
Both sides of the 3-7-59 theme are a homage to the McLaren F1 GTR, with its grey colour scheme and ‘59’ race number.
Even the key fobs on the cars wear hand-painted artwork that mimics the multi-coloured exterior of the car.
Inside the Triple Crown logo designs are stitched in McLaren Orange into the headrests of the carbonfibre racing seats. The seats feature further Triple Crown art that is etched in graphite Alcantara and are finished with white contrast stitching.
The pedals, which are marked with laser etched artwork matching some of the paint details on the exterior of the car, are finished with a ceramic coating and white, black and orange Triple Crown stars.
Chief Executive Officer of McLaren Automotive, Michael Leithers, said: “The most challenging project ever delivered by McLaren Special Operations is a truly stunning expression of McLaren’s industry-leading paint expertise, on a supercar that sets a new benchmark in its class.”
McLaren releases special edition 750S as tribute to 'Triple Crown' | Autocar
Woking's most intricately detailed livery is coming to six cars - all of which are sold
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That's it? Wasn't it supposed to take our breath away?
"McLaren releases special edition 750S as tribute to 'Triple Crown'
Woking's most intricately detailed livery is coming to six cars - all of which are sold!
covers off the firm’s most exacting bespoke livery yet in order to celebrate its ‘Triple Crown’ motorsport success.
The intricately detailed paint on the McLaren 750S commemorates McLaren winning the Monaco Grand Prix, 24 Hours of Le Mans and Indianapolis 500 and is part of wider celebrations of the company’s 60th birthday.
IndyCar driver Pato O’Ward and Le Mans winner Derek Bell joined Norris at a motorsports festival called Velocity International, in California, to reveal the 750S supercar. Five more cars, which will be either coupe or Spider, will have the ‘3-7-’59’ livery. All six have already been sold.
The three in the name represents the number of the 1974 Indy 500 winner, the seven is the company’s maiden Monaco Grand Prix win in 1984 and the 59 belongs to 1995’s 24 Hours of Le Mans winning McLaren F1 GTR.
The flowing artwork takes more than 1200 hours to paint and combines 20 different colours. The work is carried out by paint technicians at McLaren Special Operations (MSO).
Inspiration for the colours comes from the race winning cars. The white and red livery of the McLaren MP4/2, with that car’s ‘7’ race number is worn on the bonnet.
Both sides of the 3-7-59 theme are a homage to the McLaren F1 GTR, with its grey colour scheme and ‘59’ race number.
Even the key fobs on the cars wear hand-painted artwork that mimics the multi-coloured exterior of the car.
Inside the Triple Crown logo designs are stitched in McLaren Orange into the headrests of the carbonfibre racing seats. The seats feature further Triple Crown art that is etched in graphite Alcantara and are finished with white contrast stitching.
The pedals, which are marked with laser etched artwork matching some of the paint details on the exterior of the car, are finished with a ceramic coating and white, black and orange Triple Crown stars.
Chief Executive Officer of McLaren Automotive, Michael Leithers, said: “The most challenging project ever delivered by McLaren Special Operations is a truly stunning expression of McLaren’s industry-leading paint expertise, on a supercar that sets a new benchmark in its class.”
McLaren releases special edition 750S as tribute to 'Triple Crown' | Autocar
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The embargo lifts on November 17.
It's gonna be track test (Estoril circuit) and road test of Coupe and Spider versions on P Zero and Trofeo R.
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McLaren 750S 2023 review – V8 supercar primed to take on Ferrari’s 296 GTB | Evo
Taking the best technical components from the 765LT, McLaren has created a V8-engined supercar that can be considered not only one of the best of its time, but the best of all time
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How the F did I forget this? I was too bloody busy with Lucid!
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Driven! The 2024 McLaren 750S Is Civilized Ludicrousness
Meet the 750S, a refinement of the 720S with the performance of the 765LT.
"Track It
The 2024 McLaren 750S's greatest strength is its forgiveness. It doesn't want to bite you. It wants to go faster, and when you make a mistake, it isn't mad, it's just disappointed in you. The front end pushes a little, or the rear gets a bit sideways, but neither happens suddenly nor unexpectedly. Screw up a corner and you know the punishment before it arrives—and you can therefore plan for it, correct yourself, and try to save the next corner. The 750S doesn't want you to fail; it wants you to know what you did wrong so you can do it better on the next lap (but good luck ever getting Turn 4 correct).
Let's get one thing straight, though: the 2024 McLaren 750S is no shrinking violet. It's wickedly fast in a straight line and finds an ungodly amount of grip in corners. Unless you try to provoke it deliberately, you won't get it loose until you're traveling very, very fast through a corner. But when you do, you punish yourself harder for making such an obvious mistake than the car does. It's unreal. Getting sideways at these speeds in a supercar this powerful and expensive ought to be scary as hell, but it isn't—it's just frustrating, because the 750S could do better if not for the driver.
If you do just want to be sideways, though, it's happy to oblige. Once you've broken the rear tires loose, you can drive it fully with the throttle. The moment you want it back under heel, simply lift and the car brings itself back in line. It wants to grip, but even when it isn't gripping, it still wants to work with you. Switch on the Variable Drift Control and you can basically dial-in the exact slip angle you want and go out and do it over and over without even thinking.
With the standard P Zero tires, you're best advised to leave the traction and stability controls alone, especially if the road is in anything but ideal condition. Drive aggressively enough on your favorite stretch and the computer will get a workout. Fit a set of Trofeo Rs, though, and a world of possibilities opens, best explored on a track. Add the Senna-derived track-brake package and the 750S becomes indefatigable. While it's possible to overdrive the tires by getting too greedy in any given corner, the brakes can take far more than you can. We consistently saw more than 170 mph on Estoril's front straight and the brakes continually laughed it off. The car will run out of gas long before it runs out of brakes or tires.
That goes double for the road. You'll be fatigued long before the car will, and even if your stamina is high, you'll just run its tank to empty. Even in its harshest setting, the car's variable crosslinked suspension isn't really all that firm by supercar standards, and in Comfort it's closer than ever to that "magic carpet ride" McLaren's been pitching for years but has never really delivered."
Meet the 750S, a refinement of the 720S with the performance of the 765LT.
"Track It
The 2024 McLaren 750S's greatest strength is its forgiveness. It doesn't want to bite you. It wants to go faster, and when you make a mistake, it isn't mad, it's just disappointed in you. The front end pushes a little, or the rear gets a bit sideways, but neither happens suddenly nor unexpectedly. Screw up a corner and you know the punishment before it arrives—and you can therefore plan for it, correct yourself, and try to save the next corner. The 750S doesn't want you to fail; it wants you to know what you did wrong so you can do it better on the next lap (but good luck ever getting Turn 4 correct).
Let's get one thing straight, though: the 2024 McLaren 750S is no shrinking violet. It's wickedly fast in a straight line and finds an ungodly amount of grip in corners. Unless you try to provoke it deliberately, you won't get it loose until you're traveling very, very fast through a corner. But when you do, you punish yourself harder for making such an obvious mistake than the car does. It's unreal. Getting sideways at these speeds in a supercar this powerful and expensive ought to be scary as hell, but it isn't—it's just frustrating, because the 750S could do better if not for the driver.
If you do just want to be sideways, though, it's happy to oblige. Once you've broken the rear tires loose, you can drive it fully with the throttle. The moment you want it back under heel, simply lift and the car brings itself back in line. It wants to grip, but even when it isn't gripping, it still wants to work with you. Switch on the Variable Drift Control and you can basically dial-in the exact slip angle you want and go out and do it over and over without even thinking.
With the standard P Zero tires, you're best advised to leave the traction and stability controls alone, especially if the road is in anything but ideal condition. Drive aggressively enough on your favorite stretch and the computer will get a workout. Fit a set of Trofeo Rs, though, and a world of possibilities opens, best explored on a track. Add the Senna-derived track-brake package and the 750S becomes indefatigable. While it's possible to overdrive the tires by getting too greedy in any given corner, the brakes can take far more than you can. We consistently saw more than 170 mph on Estoril's front straight and the brakes continually laughed it off. The car will run out of gas long before it runs out of brakes or tires.
That goes double for the road. You'll be fatigued long before the car will, and even if your stamina is high, you'll just run its tank to empty. Even in its harshest setting, the car's variable crosslinked suspension isn't really all that firm by supercar standards, and in Comfort it's closer than ever to that "magic carpet ride" McLaren's been pitching for years but has never really delivered."
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Because the French Italian's and Germans never have? Anyway it's English.
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The cynic in me says this is the British media/British reviewers losing their mind of a warmed up facelift when cars such as the 296 GTB have actually pushed the envelope of super cars.
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The 720S was pretty much the definitive super car until only last year when Ferrari brought out the 296 GTB had it finally found its match in the performance and handling stakes. What McLaren have done with the 750S is pretty much what I expected, although I really thought they would increase the power to 800PS to at least come closer to the Ferrari instead of only 30PS, but with lighter components and about 200kg less weight the 750S, with chassis components from the 765LT would become even better to drive than the 720S and more of an allrounder with better steering and ride than the Ferrari, so it probably will come to matching the performance figures of the 296.
I still like the styling although I wish they could have changed it a little more and given the interior a much needed refresh.
I still like the styling although I wish they could have changed it a little more and given the interior a much needed refresh.
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The 296 is obviously very fast and handles we'll, but it's also heavy and clearly not as connected to the driver as the 750 and 765 are. It's that simple......if you want to really feel the car, buy a Mclaren. Plus, IMHO it's much more pretty than the 296.
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Mclaren 750S Dubai launch, see how the other half do it!
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