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if like me you don't quite have the
funds for a 750 grand sinner but you
like the idea of a track-focused McLaren
well chill out my parents got your back
this is the 600 LT it's the third member
of MacLaren's hardcore LT or longtail
family it follows the quite outrageously
good 675 LT and 675 LT spider but this
thing is based on the 570s in the sport
series as McLaren likes to call it it's
taken the 570s and made it better in
every way because you get an extra 30
horsepower as the name suggests you get
more downforce and you get 100 kilograms
less all this means that when you put it
on a track specific tracks that don't
have massively long straights I'll admit
it is actually faster than 675 LT and
for anyone that's driven a 675lt you
know that's quite a claim so we should
begin by looking at this cars details
with the things that make it lighter
because really that's what shapes the
600 L team for this bit you're gonna
have to forgive me a cheat sheet because
23 percent of this car is new and
frankly my brain can only hold so much
so we begin oh yes on the inside
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now these are the optional
super-lightweight seats the same seats
in fact that you get in the 750 thousand
pound Sena not only are they works of
art but also when you compare them to
the standard seats in the 570s well they
saved a total of 21 kilograms and then
if you're sadistic you can delete the
aircon in the stereo that will save a
further 16 kilograms and you'll notice
that there's no glovebox and no door
panels either that's because McLaren is
taking this weight saving thing quite
seriously those two things that saves a
total of one kilogram
basically happy isn't it okay right what
else we got yes the wheels so these are
a new lightweight design and those plus
these Trofeo are tire safe about 17
kilograms the carbon ceramic brake discs
in there they're effectively taken from
the seven 20s as is the suspension so
lighter wishbones hollow anti-roll bars
all the carbon bits by the way you can
see here plus an optional carbon roof
that saves just over seven kilograms
this thinner glass don't forget that
that saves a couple of kilograms and
then we get to the exhaust pipes now
these save just double check yes twelve
point six kilograms not only are they
the biggest visual differentiator
between this car and the 720 and the
570s pardon me but also they serve quite
an interesting engineering purpose by
putting the pipes up there you free up
this area down here so the diffuser can
be deeper and wider and work in its
optimum state of aerodynamic goodness
also when we whack them up here the
pipes are that much shorter the engine
is just there I can see it so you've
only got a run the air out here and up
through here that reduces the back
pressure now that reduced back pressure
plus a bit of an ECU reflash that's how
you get the extra 30 horsepower
to send them there's no internal changes
it's all just airflow and ECU there is a
problem though when you have two pipes
shunting out so much heat right here and
a fixed rear wing just behind it well
you have to be careful this thing isn't
flambe by the end of the start-finish
straight so you'll notice here a
protective heat coating that ensures
that doesn't happen yes yes yes Jack
this is all well and good thank you for
the geeky details I hear you saying but
what you really want to know is the
performance the numbers this car will do
get your notebooks out naught to 62 in
2.9 seconds it will do nought to 124
miles an hour in eight point two seconds
and flat out will do 204 miles an hour
now it's that second number that I want
to focus on because that means this car
is faster to 124 miles an hour than 911
gt2 RS it is faster than a Lamborghini
Huracan performant a it's faster than a
Ferrari 488 okay it's not faster than a
four am a pista that does it in about
seven point six seconds but this is
supposedly a more junior supercar and
don't forget that eventually there will
be a hardcore LT version of the 720 s as
well and that should take care of the P
stone
honestly it's a seriously seriously
quick car and now we need to talk about
money there is no official price but
MacLaren's line is this is basically a
five 70s plus 25% I did the calculations
earlier that means around about a
hundred and eighty five grand it's also
going to be limited in numbers again
they haven't said how many they're going
to build but it won't be quite as rare
does the 675lt now they built five
hundred of those so if I had to make an
educated guess somewhere between five
hundred and the thousand seems
reasonable by the way if you want one
better get your skates on