Owning a McLaren 750S won’t turn you into a Formula 1 driver, but it does offer a glimpse of life as a Grand Prix star. You have to be comfortable as the centre of attention in a car that costs $585,800 plus options and on-road costs. The neon-coloured UFO idling away in the pit lane is not the sort of vehicle that will make a stealthy getaway.
The McLaren 750S is a wild machine. Like Daniel Ricciardo or Oscar Piastri arriving on race day for the Australian Grand Prix, you have to be comfortable with camera phones pointed at you every time you leave the house. Swinging a door skyward to enter the McLaren is not a subtle act, nor is a prod of the starter button that wakes a twin-turbocharged, 552kW and 800Nm 4.
0-litre V8 engine. There’s a touch of Fernando Alonso or Lewis Hamilton to the McLaren 750S. As a mildly updated version of the McLaren 720S supercar that debuted years ago, it’s tempting to think of it as yesterday’s supercar.
Inside the McLaren 750S. Like a senior member of the Grand Prix paddock whose best years are in the rear mirror. That fresher, more sophisticated, hybrid-powered alternatives might be a better bet.
But I’m here to tell you this thing represents the finely distilled essence of the supercar driving experience. If the state-of-the-art Ferrari 296 GTS is an fashionable and exquisitely crafted cocktail combining fashionable ingredients with a side of showmanship, this McLaren is a vintage single malt whisky to be savoured for years to come. Y.
