as sure as night follows day when a new
McLaren is launched a spider comes and
sits down beside her this is the McLaren
720's Spyder let's start with the looks
of the car now you can be the judge
personally it's not a beauty is it those
sort of slightly bug eyes I know they're
therefore aerodynamic reasons but
striking head turning yes that's
fabulous from the back but is it
beautiful no I don't think it is I love
the way the the aerodynamics work those
fantastic panels on the side that just
show that the thought and the
engineering that's gone into this car
but as I say it's not a beauty but then
neither am i inside it's much better and
another improvement on McLaren still got
this portrait infotainment system which
i think is a weak link if I'm perfectly
honest it's not great it's not
particularly intuitive and you can't get
apple carplay or Android auto is he's
not people want these days that said it
does power one of the most fantastic
audio systems I've heard in a car Bowers
and Wilkins again British brand and I
love the sort of industrial look to the
speakers but let's be honest all that
isn't what this cars about this car is
about dropping down coupler gears
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oh thank you for letting me do this job
this is awesome
now the 720's is one of the greatest
cars to drive and this is no different
you really wouldn't be able to tell that
roof because it still feels solid the
steering's great there's a huge amount
of grip you can play with all the
controls you can press the active button
you can put it into manual mode you
could change the handling from comfort
to sport to track you can change the
power from comfort from sport to track
ultimate adjustability there in the same
way that you can change everything on
the car and get it bit spoke exactly how
you want it but this is just such a
fantastic thing to drive it grips it
before drift if you really want it to
it's fantastic on a track and every now
and again you can
yes it sounds good
I mean yeah it could sound a little bit
better but I be sure let's just say that
would put me off it's just oh that's
tearing the fear everything you can tell
I really like this car to drive
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I'm just gonna slow down now to about 30
miles an hour and in 11 seconds I'm told
here we go let's see if it all that if
I'll do it the right way there we go
look at this this is just majestic it
doesn't take long there we go done 11
seconds look at the state of my hair but
that's the fun of an open-top car this
guy who has a seven and a half thousand
powered option which is a photo
chromatic press that it goes light now
for the UK of course this is what you
want to do just put the rear window down
which as usual
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you can enjoy the noise for that
wonderful 4 litre v8 with 710 horsepower
now I've moaned a little bit about the
infotainment system I'm gonna moan about
the build quality as well because I'm
looking down the bonnet panel gaps that
are a little bit too large for my liking
and I know these cars are difficult or
engineer where the dihedral doors are
open to let you get in and out easily
but the panel gaps are different on that
side to that side and I'm forever
looking at the fact that this wing just
Rises slightly just pass the door on to
the front fender really McLaren you've
got to learn to do better at the moment
the cars are so good to drive we can
think of that but the old quality wise
you could do better and this thing the
rearview mirror
it's from 1985 but I'm being churlish
because this car is all about sorry I'm
just gonna have to do it again
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look at this even got scroll the
indicators now one thing I haven't
mentioned is the price then if you've
got to ask then you probably can't
afford it but you're asking anyway so
237,000 pounds about thirty thousand
pounds more than the 720 X is it worth
if I think it is in terms of the extra I
can afford it of course up there but
this is without doubt one of the best
driving cars I have ever driven Sean the
clerics have their foibles but if you're
after driving fun this is the car but
everything else has to be
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