McLaren reveals 570GT 24 | 02 | 2016
SPORTS CAR MAKER McLaren has created a more practical and luxurious GT variant of its extreme 570S, the 507GT, which will make its global debut at next week's Geneva Motor Show. The significant changes are aimed at making the car more road-biased and "usable everyday" (see more photographs of the McLaren 570GT).
The new 570GT — which will go on-sale in Scotland in July costing £154,000, just over £10,000 more than the 570S — is powered by the same 562bhp twin-turbo 3.8-litre engine as in the 570S, but it gets a new roof and rear end, which features a new upper structure, spoiler and aerodynamic package.
Without question though, the most significant feature is a glass ‘Touring Deck’, which in essence is a whopping great side-hinged glass door.
Depending on whether the car is right- or left-hand driver, the hinges can be placed on either side to ensure luggage can be loaded safely from the kerbside.
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Lifting the glass door gives access to a leather-lined 220-litre luggage space behind the two-seat cabin. Worth highlight that, combined with the 130-litre space at the front of the car, the 570GT can carry 350-litres of goods: that's more than a Ford Focus hatchback.
And while a tinted panoramic roof — equipped with a noise insulation and solar radiation absorption material — is standard to make the cabin lighter and airier, the rest of the interior has also been tweaked.
While the basic structure remains the same as that in the 570GT, McLaren has used materials which are more luxurious: buyers can choose from Luxury or Sport interior themes.
The 570GT also gets a full leather cabin, electrically adjustable and heated seats, an electrically adjustable steering column and soft-close dihedral doors.
And while the 570GT weighs an extra 37kg over the 1313kg of the 570S, the performance figures are almost identical: the 570GT covers the 0-62mph sprint in 3.4sec (up 0.2sec from the 570S), while the top speed is the same for both, 204mph. Both models also use the same seven-speed dual-clutch automatic unit, driving the rear wheels.
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Jim McGill