but Chris the new McLaren speeder we've
probably seen the numbers on this over
thousand horsepower under 1500 kilos but
what makes it so special is it's
basically a parasite
isn't it it's slippery yeah it has no
drag and when you look at the other
vehicles that are talked about in this
space the really high speeds is mainly
Bugatti and that's got so much more
inertia and it in friction it's got
four-wheel drive system very wide tires
and you look at the shape that's quite a
bit going on to disturb the air whereas
this it's a different philosophy I mean
it's it's basically a ton lighter than
Chiron yeah and that that's a massive
amount of difference and you really feel
it when you suddenly back off the
throttle at 200 miles an hour Chiron
feels like you smashed the brakes this
thing parachutes down the back of this
thing just coasts along yeah so it's a
very different experience I was
surprised at how fast it felt yeah I
thought wow it's just a p1 thousand
horsepower 500 kilograms it's not yeah
it's that sensation you talked about it
cuz it's not maybe a real-world
situation most views it get experience
backing off at 200 but what it's like
the well you you you just rated some
black ice okay you feel like there is
there is a sense of deceleration but you
just feel a little bit of pressure on
your belt yeah and you and the numbers
don't really change in the cars that I
suppose rival this back off and it's
like someone has smashed the brakes yeah
so it's a very different experience and
it you know the difference is I suppose
that because of that slipperiness it's
more difficult to give that absolutely
iron stability yeah and a Chiron is is
you know barely moving it - it's this
thing it's not wandering but it moves
more keeps you interested yes speed
likely a bloodhound - Lance pre-record
car he says it wanders a bit five six
seven people of that skill level could
do that but beyond 200 I like things to
be absolutely dead straight then this
still is yeah but I wouldn't want to
move any more than it does okay and the
other thing that makes this car very
special is the layout the three seat
allow it's lovely and I think that there
is something inherently special about a
seat in the elderly in brings out your
inner kid let's have a sit inside like
one of the button so the theatre of this
now you're about to drive from garden or
down to Monaco
yeah with
two girlfriends yeah you have to work
out your strategy getting in having
spent a day in it I go from there
yeah but then get my feet into the foot
well like that I'm a my regular cross
yeah I mean there's no truly graceful
way of doing it it's not too bad so as a
driver on your own you just bring the
wheel back yeah and then drop it down a
bit you're fine there's something very
pleasing about having a symmetrical
layout like this cuz no other car had it
so I've got review cameras here you can
see those in the door and then two big
screens my my miniskirt you're on till
the right size within it but anyone
bigger than you mm-hmm you mean anyone
that's average height yeah you could
travel in there good that's perfect yeah
um I have to put my arm around you
actually don't don't get too on there
buddy you get one shoulder behind you oh
yeah yeah that's that's that's quite
smoothly yeah but it's not for three
six-footers is it yeah yeah you are
right up against it
McGinnis he doesn't fit so well in it
flintoff he must have had a leg hanging
out of the windows yeah it was a problem
but but I love all this stuff here for
some reason putting controls in the
wrong place ie in the roof panel is just
it's just so something called a pure
sci-fi today's rather than having a
track button or a sort of you know a
race button this has a velocity button
ah velocity lowers the ride height and
changes something under - yourself v-max
yeah yeah how quick did you go I think
well it was only 1.5 1.4 1.5 mile runway
and I did 225 I think if I stopped at
but it was pulling hard there's no doubt
in my mind this thing would be more than
250 yeah but if you go beyond 250
there's a lot of very expensive
engineering required and I think McLaren
took the right decision and said well we
don't mean it's do anything make it more
unique that they're not chasing 300 plus
let's just build a car that's different
and it'll do an easy 250
won the battle when you turn up with
something that looks this beautiful and
you're fitting in the middle also what
do you like think about this aniline
lever that's got this well ages and it's
soft and waxing yes absolutely beautiful
well how long is it gonna last
well buildings well this thing's been
pounded hasn't it but $20,000 less car
it just gets better doesn't it look we
you touched on the styling there when I
first saw the pictures of this car
I thought Christ that's ugly yeah well
yeah completely ugly not wise expecting
out of proportion but I saw it once in
the studio I've seen it again today and
it's it's really growing on me because
it's so different to anything else I
think it's stunning it's smooth it's
dignified it's the antidote to all the
hypercar rubbish that's out there at the
moment yeah to complicated and fussy
yeah they're stunning so you clearly
aren't an advocate for all these limited
run multi-million pound hyper cars that
seem to be getting launched every second
but but if they can do something truly
different why not and it's a road car
could see someone using it properly yeah
I think it's gorgeous this is what they
should be doing I'm a two million quid
plus it should be damn good but it is
this is the one supercar hypercar thing
of the last three years that interests
me I think it's just gorgeous and I was
surprised at how fast it was yeah
because over over 100 miles an hour it
really goes it feels much quicker than a
p1 much more accelerated yeah but
there's no drag that's all no Jack you
think people think that drag only really
happens at very high speed but we're
doing a hundred stick your head out the
window
yeah it's violent so this thing I would
love to be the person that could just
jump in it and crew saw the France well
a joy but also it's obviously designed
to do straight line stuff you drove
around the track as well you went around
some corners its Goods alike it's seven
twenty s minus ten fifteen percent
they're like a boat but no no no I mean
they've done a quite a good job because
everything that's out of the bag it's
you know it's 722 here isn't it yeah and
that's just a carbon fiber it doesn't
weigh much is massive yeah come on it's
gorgeous what I think no I'm not I'm a
convert I'm a convert who think the
wheel span again not sure when I first
saw them they've refined the ABS he
looks cooler with these vents at the
back yeah again now we have I've fallen
in love with it I'm so fickle I'll
probably change my mind again next week
I think I honestly think it's the best
thing my parents done in ages keep your
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