MOTORING
MCLAREN 720S SPIDER By Maarten Hoffmann, Senior Motoring Editor
Two years after its launch, the McLaren 720S Coupé remains one of the best supercars in the world, all the more remarkable from a British company that has been making road cars for less than a decade. But, chopping the roof off a car can have serious repercussions for the resulting convertible and those kind folk in Woking have presented me with the resulting Spider to see what l think.
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I think a lot! The strength of McLaren’s carbonfibre tub meant a conversion from coupé to convertible could be made without sacrificing stiffness and adding little weight, thus avoiding the main pitfalls that have nearly always historically made a convertible supercar a slower, heavier and a worse-looking version of the coupé from which it’s derived. No fixed roof means the addition of a new rollover protection system, bonded to the chassis, made from carbonfibre and 6.8kg lighter than the 650S Spider’s steel construction.
