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company’s supercar model range is expanding beyond any sense of comprehensibility; look in the showroom today and you’ll find the all-new GT, the 600LT, 570S, 570GT, 540C, 720S, Senna, 675LT, the spaceship-like Speedtail, plus various Spyder variants and all sorts. This is niche stuff. Whereas Audi and Mercedes-Benz are working hard to create bizarre SUV niches by finding size-related gaps between their countless existing models, McLaren’s artisans are building loads of quite-similar supercars simply because they can. They can’t help themselves. This is because it’s a company not run by cynical accountants, but by petrolheads. Check out the company car park, you’ll find it packed to bursting with Peugeot 205 GTIs, Lotus Elans, air-cooled Porsche 911s, proper sports cars. Our sister mag BMW Car recently featured a

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