Perhaps the most anticipated new car of the decade, the McLaren Speedtail, is almost here.
McLaren Automotive recently unveiled the Speedtail, the next in the company’s McLaren Ultimate Series and its first Hyper-GT. The car features a beautiful, aerodynamic design and incredible power.
McLaren will produce just 106 of the vehicles, and all of them are already reserved at a price of £1.75 million, or about $2.2 million, plus taxes. About a third of the buyers are in the United States, according to Car and Driver, where the cars will not be street-legal.
At its top speed, the Mclaren Speedtail can hit 250 miles per hour, even more than the record top speed of the McLaren F1. It can go from 0 to 300 kilometers per her, or 186 mph, in just 12.8 seconds.
This speed is made possible in part by the car’s aerodynamic design. Its teardrop-shaped body and cockpit and the reduced number of shutlines create an uninterrupted flow of air from the front of the vehicle to the back. The carbon fiber front-wheel static aero covers, active rear ailerons and retractable digital rear-view camera, which take the place of mirrors, add to the aerodynamics.
Underneath the LED headlights are slim vertical ducts that provide cooling to the car’s low-temperature radiators. Any airflow that doesn’t go into the LTR ducts flows over the Speedtail’s bonnet and into two upper front clam intakes. It is then ducted through the body and around the wheelarch before exiting from...