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Barely a day after revealing the new 720S, McLaren unveiled another 720S. It"s called Velocity", and it"s a 720S modified by McLaren"s 120-person strong team at McLaren Special Operations to showcase the breadth of what"s now on offer from Woking"s bespoke department.The main change is the funky paintwork, which took an astonishing 300 hours to layer. It"s two pearlescent hues of red split over the car: Nerello Red is used on the front and upper body panels of the car including a very trippy graduated fade from red-tinted bare carbon fibre bonnet into red then fades into a vivid Volcano Red that covers the sides and rear of the car.These shades of red are contrasted with new metallic bronze lightweight alloy wheels, and wherever fresh slabs of carbon could be added, they have been added. There"s a red carbon fibre bonnet, a gloss carbon rear deck vent, gloss carbon fibre service cover", a gloss carbon rear aero bridge and a satin carbon full-length sill cover. Inside, there"s more carbon and luxury, all in contrasting black and red trim. Cost on top of the 207,900 list price? 120,000. That"s just six grand shy of a brand new McLaren 540C.Personalisation though, is big business. For the 675LT, 65 per cent of buyers posted their cars to MSO for some mods. This can range from having their key painted to match the body colour, to revisions that cost 1million plus over the basic price. And consider this: within the first few hours of unveiling the 720S Velocity, six customers slinked into McLaren"s VIP backroom and snapped them up straight away. Ker-ching!MSO will literally build you anything you desire, but customers often struggle to come up with an innovative or different design. "Unless you"re Frank Stephenson [McLaren"s Director of Design] it"s very hard to imagine something from a blank piece of paper and be creative," James Banks, Head of Bespoke Cars at McLaren Special Operations tells us.
Date written: 9 Mar 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 7009
Barely a day after revealing the new 720S, McLaren unveiled another 720S. It"s called Velocity", and it"s a 720S modified by McLaren"s 120-person strong team at McLaren Special Operations to showcase the breadth of what"s now on offer from Woking"s bespoke department.The main change is the funky paintwork, which took an astonishing 300 hours to layer. It"s two pearlescent hues of red split over the car: Nerello Red is used on the front and upper body panels of the car including a very trippy graduated fade from red-tinted bare carbon fibre bonnet into red then fades into a vivid Volcano Red that covers the sides and rear of the car.These shades of red are contrasted with new metallic bronze lightweight alloy wheels, and wherever fresh slabs of carbon could be added, they have been added. There"s a red carbon fibre bonnet, a gloss carbon rear deck vent, gloss carbon fibre service cover", a gloss carbon rear aero bridge and a satin carbon full-length sill cover. Inside, there"s more carbon and luxury, all in contrasting black and red trim. Cost on top of the 207,900 list price? 120,000. That"s just six grand shy of a brand new McLaren 540C.Personalisation though, is big business. For the 675LT, 65 per cent of buyers posted their cars to MSO for some mods. This can range from having their key painted to match the body colour, to revisions that cost 1million plus over the basic price. And consider this: within the first few hours of unveiling the 720S Velocity, six customers slinked into McLaren"s VIP backroom and snapped them up straight away. Ker-ching!MSO will literally build you anything you desire, but customers often struggle to come up with an innovative or different design. "Unless you"re Frank Stephenson [McLaren"s Director of Design] it"s very hard to imagine something from a blank piece of paper and be creative," James Banks, Head of Bespoke Cars at McLaren Special Operations tells us.
Date written: 9 Mar 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 7009
