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welcome to the mclaren 570s
and it's friends the 570s is MacLaren's
entry-level car it uses the same carbon
fiber tub and 3.8 liter twin-turbo v8 as
the p1 and 650 s but here to tune to 562
horsepower simpler suspensions and no
active aerodynamics keep the price down
to one hundred and forty three thousand
pounds
some McLaren for clarity's sake have now
got this three-tier range and it does
feel a lot more sensible if you like
you've got the 570 in the forthcoming
540 there the Sport Series then you have
the 650 in the 675 which are the Super
Series and then at the top of the range
yet the ultimate cars the ultimate
series which is the p1 and the p1 GTR
but reading up on this car what struck
me most wasn't all the technical stuff
it was the acceleration times which are
to the tenth of a second exactly the
saves of the times for the McLaren f1 20
years ago
I never thought anything would be as
quick as their car and yet now
MacLaren's entry-level car can do
nought-60 in 3.2 unto 125 in nine and a
half and then that's astonishing it
makes it the fastest of these three
quite happily
but the advantage of the carbon tub and
the other weight saving measures that
McLaren have made with this car is that
you've got a lot less weight it weighs
about 150 kilos less I think than the
Audi and that's a big big difference
it means down roads like this on tight
roads
it feels very wieldy and agile I think
it's the steering that really sets this
car apart you know exactly where you are
with it
all the time just hope you through here
in the Porsche you'd be managing all the
weight transfer in the McLaren it just
goes where you point it and you'd
imagine that this this sort of immediacy
to it would mean that it rode really
poorly but it does I have to say this
sharp turbo it's got it just picks up a
bit quicker and makes you hold on for
high revs
it'll revved over 8,000
but it's not a spiky car the McLaren it
has this immediacy and sharpness to the
chassis the way they've managed a way
that the turbos come in is very very
clever Dean this is the second
generation Audi r8 now available only
with a v10 engine this particular car is
the plus which has shorter gears and
firmer suspension to go with its 602
horsepower naturally aspirated motor
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the v10 is so smooth that it doesn't
seem to have to work hard to give you
its performance it just sort seems to be
this very sort of progressive and
undramatic engine it's a very
good-natured car the Audi it's very
soothing there's no sort of edges to its
performance
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it's got this little bit of push
understeer just to let you know that
you're somewhere near the living through
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it's not quite as marked as it isn't the
McLaren and it feels very agile for such
a big heavy car
we always have a go at Audis exterior
design and I'm afraid I'm going to do it
again here if this one all it looks like
is it looks about 10 percent longer and
about 10 percent wider and I know the
edging is a little bit sharper and that
sort of thing but to my mind it just
seems to have got a fraction more
bloated
the opposite of that whiteness which i
think is good is there's a lot more
width to the cabbage and there is in the
McLaren and while McLaren has made
progress with its interior design it's
not a patch on the Audi it's really
beautifully laid out and the sort of
materials and craftsmanship on display
put you in mind of solve a German Pagani
in a weight
one of the things with a naturally
aspirated engine of course is that you
actually have to use the revs and above
about 5,000 it's really there we go
takes off but below there if you get
caught out of gear then you will get
left for dead by the McLaren and the
pause
we compare with McLaren which has got
such an intuitive chassis and gearbox
and engine and the whole way it works
together it feels really really good
this just doesn't quite have the same
cohesiveness I don't think the Porsche
911 Turbo gave us the concept of the
everyday supercar it's still a mighty
machine with a flat six twin turbo
engines slung out behind the rear axle
developed in 552 horsepower and in front
of it four seats and four wheel drive so
I think it's quite easy sometimes to
take the 911 turbo for granted because
you see them around a lot it's
relatively tall it looks a bit sort of
more everyday than the others and yet
you get it on a good road and really it
still properly got the guts to get
yourself down a road really fast and
quite thrillingly
you developed this technique with it
where you dive it in on the brakes of it
and just build up the power and off it
goes it's all about managing the turbos
the turbos absolutely dominate the
Porsche experience
but it's such an easy car to live with
the Porsche you've got the lovely
upright ade pillows and this big
panoramic windscreen you sit a bit
higher in it it feels very manageable
you're very comfortable in all the
switch gears on familiar German
engineering and quality but it hasn't
got the same a immediacy of the chassis
because it weighs that bit more as the
McLaren and it doesn't have the same
sort of steering response the McLaren
steering is a bit of a highlight
actually but I think it's got the
measure of the RA I really do
if the 570s
isn't as easygoing as its rivals but
it's happy enough buidling about and
when you do want to put the hammer down
it'll reward and excite in a way that
neither rival can learn it's our number
one
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