{"id":6428,"date":"2025-05-12T14:14:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T14:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/2025-mclaren-750s-spider-car-review-elite-power-design-and-scrapes\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T14:14:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T14:14:47","slug":"2025-mclaren-750s-spider-car-review-elite-power-design-and-scrapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/2025-mclaren-750s-spider-car-review-elite-power-design-and-scrapes\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 McLaren 750S Spider Car Review: Elite Power, Design and Scrapes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 2025 McLaren 750S Spider is not a mortal car\u2014or for mere mortals. Courtesy McLaren\/Beadyeye<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The McLaren<\/a> 750S Spider was making its way around town last month, and I begged myself into the seat. The fact that I\u2019m still around to write this is less a testament to my incredible skills as a driver than it is to the fact that I only got to drive the 750S for three days. My bone density is still good, my teeth are still intact, and whatever hair I have left is gone forever to the Texas Hill Country wind. The car shook me to the core, and my thighs are still vibrating.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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This 750S is a supercar\u2014one of the most super supercars<\/a> anyone could possibly own short of having a stake in an actual Formula 1 vehicle. Its segment includes the Lamborghini Revuelto and various Ferraris, including the $2 million-plus Ferrari Daytona SP3. The version I drove, fully tricked-out including a $1,000 \u201cGas Guzzler tax,\u201d topped out at $444,180. This car is the mortgage, the life\u2019s savings. It devours worlds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It replaces McLaren\u2019s 720S, gone and, I guess, forgotten, given the specs on the 750S, with a twin-turbocharged and intercooled 32-valve V8 engine that yields an absolutely ridiculous 740 horsepower and 590 pound-feet of torque. The car goes from zero to 60 in less than two and a half seconds, which has got to be close to a land speed record for a consumer car. It can reach a top speed of 206 miles per hour, which I didn\u2019t reach, given that, as I said before, I\u2019m still alive. You can get close to that level of performance in \u201cComfort\u201d mode. If you press a \u201cLaunch\u201d button and jack it into Track mode, the engine roars angrily, the cockpit seems to swirl orange around, and you hang on to the dual clutch paddles, hoping you don\u2019t make a mistake.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Gorgeous doesn\u2019t even begin to describe this car. Beadyeye<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Before I describe what it was actually like to drive this car (dangerous but fun), a few words on the design. \u201cGorgeous\u201d cannot suffice, like saying that an actor at the height of their beauty \u201cstuns on the red carpet.\u201d It has, the spec sheet says, a \u201cCarbon Fibre Monocage chassis with rear extruded aluminum subframe\u201d with \u201cTwin Hinge Dihedral Doors\u201d that open in the gull-wing style. This means the car is low to the ground\u2014extremely low, like sheet-of-paper low, basically flat. When I walked out the front door in the morning, I had to look over to my regular vehicle to make sure the McLaren was still there. It hugs the ground in plain sight.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The color was \u201cElite Belize Blue,\u201d so arresting and snazzy that it turned heads wherever I took it. People were stopping in front of my house to take photos all week. At least, that\u2019s what I assume they were doing\u2014I don\u2019t think they were snapping the crumbling concrete blocks in front of my home. Everyone wanted to have a look at this magnificent thing. The two-seat interior is more spare, almost like a race-car cockpit. McLaren made this flagship for people to admire on the runway.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The two-seat interior is reminiscent of a race car cockpit. Courtesy McLaren\/Beadyeye<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 750S generates pure, raw, aerodynamic power. Driving it isn\u2019t easy. It rips down the road aggressively, almost disdainfully, as though it\u2019s trying to tell you it belongs in a race, not on the path to the grocery store. While I had to admire the purity of the ride, it was like admiring a fighter jet, with a retractable roof, in full flight. This is not a mortal car, or a car for mortals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Along those lines, there\u2019s basically no storage space. The \u201cfrunk\u201d is barely big enough to hold a travel backpack. And there\u2019s no space for anything else. The car is so low that if you go over a speed bump, or attempt a parking lot driveway with any kind of an incline, you have to press a button to raise the chassis, or the chassis will scrape.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Who needs a trunk? Courtesy McLaren\/Beadyeye<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Spoiler alert: You will forget to raise it sometimes, and you will scrape the chassis. The chassis was scraped when I got the car, and I scraped it at least twice while I had it, and, believe me, I wasn\u2019t being reckless with this $400,000-plus car. The scrapes weren\u2019t visible, but I could feel underneath the front bumper, barely high enough for a snake to slither under. When I informed McLaren I\u2019d scraped the chassis, they told me not to worry about it. It\u2019s been scraped before, they said, and someone will scrape it again. That\u2019s the nature of this car, though. This is a car for scraping. It gets into scrapes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 750S is not a daily driver, unless you never have any passengers, don\u2019t need to haul anything more than a plastic bag from a convenience store, and like getting 15 mpg from the city. Anyone who owns this will garage it and then occasionally drive it on hot-shot nights out, tossing the keys insouciantly to the valet, and then buy some track time when the mood strikes. The 750S comes from a maker with a racing pedigree. It longs for the track, it craves the track. If you own one, your life will be a track.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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