There really aren’t very many faster cars in the world than the McLaren 750S. That time honoured recipe of ludicrous turbocharged power and not very much mass definitely still works to spectacular effect, the 750’s ability to make every straight feel half the distance really quite staggering to experience. Doesn’t matter what the location and what you’ve driven before, it’s a searingly rapid car. And one of McLaren’s best, in fact, improving what was already a very good 720S across the board.
So, obviously, Novitec has run with that and attempted to make McLaren’s V8 stunner even better still. Definitely it’ll be an even faster supercar; the most powerful of its three stages of electronic tuning, when combined with a race exhaust, promises 840hp and 666lb ft. So that’s more power and a good wedge more torque than a Ferrari 12Cilindri, in a package hundreds of kilos lighter. Yikes. With the fundamentals of this engine having been around a few years now also, you’d like to imagine that plenty is known about how to get the best from fuelling, ignition, boost and so on. 840 is a wonderfully daft number, though not a great deal on top of 750 as a percentage. 2.6 seconds to 62mph is claimed, as well as 209mph. Just as attractive, surely, is the promise of a ‘particularly exciting sound from the V8’.
To drive a standard 750S is to be dumbfounded, really, because it’s like a Lotus Emira with twice the power: a deft, lithe, agile sports car, with the power to turn you inside out. Probably not to be meddled with, really, though Novitec does offer sport springs and spacers to ramp up the visual attitude alongside a set of wheels designed with Vossen. They’re a sizeable 20-inch front, 21-inch rear, and do make the 750 look suitably saucy, but there’s surely got to be a penalty to pay in terms of ride and handling. Pay your money, take your choice, and all that.
Finally, it wouldn’t be a Novitec upgrade package without some carbon goodies… fitted to a black car. They’re a tad more visible on the stunning purple Spider, and reasonably restrained: add ons to the front splitter, rear diffuser, bonnet, side skirts and mirrors are about the extent of it. Certainly the drop top doesn’t scream mad tuner special with 200hp more than a Maserati MC20.
All the 750S parts are available to order now, for those that want a McLaren with a little extra pep, and Scuderia Car Parts is the UK distributor. Imagine how good some of that carbon might look against turquoise…
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