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last time I drove the 720's I remember
thinking this car is probably too fast
not on the racetrack of course because
that's where you can use all the
performance but on the public road it is
properly ballistic and then I thought
what on earth and McLaren going to do
with the forthcoming LT version how
could they possibly make it any faster
well this is our answer the 765
fortunately there exists a surefire way
of making very fast cars even faster
adding power increasing downforce and
removing weight and the 675lt
sticks to it producing as the name
suggests 765 horsepower 45 more than the
720 yes it also weighs 80 kilograms less
so as a result it'll do nought 62 1/10
faster in 2.8 seconds and naught to 124
miles an hour in 7.2 that's a full six
tenths faster than a 720 yes you just
four tenths behind the Sena and p1 so
how do you remove 80 kilograms from a
car that is already quite skinny with
great difficulty but I shall attempt to
explain starting with the big stuff so
you now get in carbon-fiber body panels
which saves about 14 kilograms in the
cabin you've now got the carbon fiber
shell bucket seats from the McLaren
Centre that saves 18 kilograms but the
biggest weight saving comes down here
with these new 10 spoke forged alloy
wheels now they save 22 kilograms in
total you'll see they're wrapped in
stickier Trofeo are tires as standard
and get this for a bit of detailed
engineering in there it uses titanium
wheel nuts just to shave off a few extra
grams and while we're down here we might
as well talk about the brakes because
you get the same calipers as a centre as
standard along with carbon ceramic discs
but you can upgrade to the ceramic discs
from the centre which are very special
indeed they're the ones that
for seven months for the ultimate in
thermal stability which to your eye
means you can abuse them lap after lap
on track and they will refuse to fade in
terms of stopping distance it'll do 124
miles an hour to naught in just 110
meters and probably whip your eyes clean
out of their sockets in the process and
the weight-saving gets even nerdier
there's a polycarbonate rear windscreen
and rear quarter windows thinner glass
for the windscreen and windows no
carpets a new carbon fiber center
console and MacLaren's first full
titanium exhaust more on that in a bit
and then we come to the styling not
exactly subtle is it this car produces
25% more downforce than the 720 s and
it's that downforce requirement that
dictates the way it looks so at the
front end you've got this massive front
splitter that entire carbon-fiber
section there is all-new then in the
front wheel arches you've got these
carbon fiber vents here a bit like the
911 gt2 RS now that relieves pressure in
the wheel ass because that's one of the
most turbulent areas in the car and just
reduces lift on the front axle moving
down the side of the car you've got
these larger and more prominent
carbon-fiber side sills here they just
smooth the air down the side of the car
and round the back you find the 7 6 5 s
long tail doesn't actually make the car
any longer this but it is 20% bigger
than the active rear when you get on a
720 s there's also a substantially
larger carbon-fiber rear diffuser down
there and slap bang in the middle
probably the cars defining design Q
which is these four quad exhaust pipes
there might be a bit actually of the
bugatti chiron sport and i'm told these
are very happy to spit flames on the
overall which is always nice the engine
is the same four litre twin-turbo v8
producing an old money 754 brake
horsepower and 590 pound-feet of torque
that thanks to the addition of pistons
fuel pump and a head gasket from the
Sena the suspension is a refined version
of the 720 s's linked active hydraulic
suspension now with 11 percent stiffer
spring rate for
to rear and a lower ride height at the
front and the final drive ratio is 15%
shorter than a 720s the lowest of any
McLaren ever which plate the in gear
acceleration feel quite Lively the good
news is that some of that amazing
engineering is on display if you go for
the optional engine viewing port whole
thing in the back which I can hardly
recommend the rest of the interior is
quite familiar 720 yes just with more
bite so down here you've got mats but
underneath that no carpet there's no
armrests here in this new carbon-fiber
center console if you're a sadist you
can delete the aircon entirely and these
seats just completely swallow you up
they say the 765 LT is still a road car
and to be fair it does still have
conventional seat belts instead of those
excruciating ly fiddly four-point
harnesses but it's probably not the
perfect car of a supermarket run this is
a very McLaren kind of car is maybe you
get the sense that the engineers revel
in exploring all that fine detail and
the result is undoubtedly another
phenomenally fast supercar but this is
the first LT model to be a direct
successor to another LT model the
brilliant 675 LT so make no mistake it's
got some big boots to film
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