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Written by Stephen Dobie
The convertible track special. Long the oxymoron of the performance car world, not that the residual values of a Ferrari 458 Speciale Aperta would suggest so. The latest is the McLaren 600LT Spider, the fifth car to earn the Longtail name, and surely the furthest cry yet from the first, a Le Mans racecar that won the GT1 class in 1997. McLaren"s keen to point out it"s proper", though. Thanks to the wonders of its carbon MonoCell chassis, the 600LT hasn"t needed any more strengthening to compensate for the lack of a fixed roof, the end result being a modest 50kg premium over the coupe, all of which comes from the three-part folding hard-top and its various mechanisms. That helps achieve a dry weight of 1,297kg, around 80kg down on a 488 Pista Spider and 100kg below the 570S Spider this 600LT is effectively spun from.
Date written: 16 Jan 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14561
The convertible track special. Long the oxymoron of the performance car world, not that the residual values of a Ferrari 458 Speciale Aperta would suggest so. The latest is the McLaren 600LT Spider, the fifth car to earn the Longtail name, and surely the furthest cry yet from the first, a Le Mans racecar that won the GT1 class in 1997. McLaren"s keen to point out it"s proper", though. Thanks to the wonders of its carbon MonoCell chassis, the 600LT hasn"t needed any more strengthening to compensate for the lack of a fixed roof, the end result being a modest 50kg premium over the coupe, all of which comes from the three-part folding hard-top and its various mechanisms. That helps achieve a dry weight of 1,297kg, around 80kg down on a 488 Pista Spider and 100kg below the 570S Spider this 600LT is effectively spun from.
Date written: 16 Jan 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14561
