This is the McLaren 620R, a new lightweight, track-focused special from the team at Woking. It is an evolution of the 570S GT4 customer competition car, but although it has a heavy circuit-bias - including the option to fit it with full slicks from the Pirelli Motorsports crew - the 620R is road-legal. It has a MonoCell II carbon-fibre chassis and mid-mounted twin-turbo V8 engine delivering 620hp and 620Nm, numbers which sound like the mill from a GT but which are actually developed by an M838TE 3.8-litre engine, not a 4.0-litre powerplant. Much carbon-fibre is used in the construction of the 620R, with the interior stripped out of things like air-con, a sound system and the IRIS navigation (although you can spec all of these back in for free, if you want), in order to make the car light at 1,282kg dry, while the heavily revised bodywork uses much adjustable aerodynamics which can, for instance, generate up to 185kg of downforce on the rear axle in the case of the big spoiler at the back. Performance is therefore pretty punchy, with 0-62mph occurring in a mere 2.9 seconds, 0-124mph ticked off in 8.1 seconds and the top speed finalised as a nice, round 200mph. More spec goodness on the 620R includes two-way adjustable dampers with 32 clicks of adjustment per corner, stiffer springs and anti-roll bars than other Sports Series Maccas, massive carbon-ceramic 390mm front/380mm rear brakes and Pirelli P Zero Trofeo R semi-slick tyres as standard. Order books are open now and each 620R, of which just 350 examples will be built, will cost £250,000 including taxes.
Matt Robinson - 9 Dec 2019