THE RACER’S EDGE
IF McLAREN FATIGUE WAS A CLINICALLY recognised condition then by rights we should all be chronic sufferers by now. Such has been Woking’s prodigious output over the last few years it’s been hard to keep pace with the latest new models. Sports Series, Super Series, Ultimate Series, C, S, GT, LT, Spider, Senna and Speedtail. We’ve seen them all. And yet we’ve not seen anything quite like the 620R.
OK, let me qualify that. Of course we’ve seen something very similar in the shape of the 570S, but the 620R is a new kind of McLaren. One with genuine racing pedigree.
Given the McLaren name is one of the pillars of motor racing history this may seem a strange statement, but until now McLaren’s road cars have been just that. Road cars. Albeit with extraordinary performance. With the 620R McLaren enters an exacting but brutally straightforward niche. One in which purity, capability, desirability and authenticity counts for everything.
We’ll come to the capability and desirability elements in a moment, but you only have to look at the 620R and glance through its hardcore specification to know it has the purity and authenticity to mix it with the very best. The final instalment in
