McLaren 570S vs Porsche 911 Turbo vs Audi R8 V10 | Top Gear

welcome to the

mclaren

570 and friends the 570 is

mclaren

's basic car, it uses the same carbon fiber tub and 3.8 bi

turbo

v8 as the p1 and 650, but here detuned to 562 horsepower, simpler suspensions and no aerodynamics active they keep the price down £143,000 so for clarity McLaren now has this three tier range and it feels a lot more sensible if you like it you've got the 517 the next 540 they're the sports series then you've got the 650 and the 675. which are the super series and then at the top of the range you have the ultimate cars, the ultimate series, which is the p1 and the p1 gtr, but when reading about this car, what I find most What stood out was not the entire technical aspect, but the acceleration. times that are up to a tenth of a second exactly the same as the times of the McLaren F1 20 years ago.

I never thought anything would be as fast as that car and yet now mclaren's base car can't do anything 60 and 3.2 up to 125. in nine and a half and that's amazing, happily makes it the fastest of these three , but the advantage of the carbon tub and the other weight saving measures that McLaren has taken with this car is that it weighs much less. I think about 150 kilos less than the Audi and that's a big difference, it means that on roads like this, on narrow roads, it feels very manageable and agile, so I think it's the steering that really sets this car apart, you know. exactly where you are. all the time, just poking it here in the pause, you'd be handling all the weight transfer in the mclaren, it just goes where you point it and you figure this kind of immediacy would mean it actually rode. bad, but it's not like that, I have to say that it has a sharp

turbo

that just accelerates a little faster and makes you hold on at high revs, it will accelerate to more than 8 000. but it is not a sharp car, the mclaren has this immediacy and chassis sharpness, the way they have handled the way the turbos come in is very very clever, in fact this is the second generation

audi

r8, now available only with the v10 engine.

This particular car is the plus that it has shorter and firmer

gear

s. suspension to go with its 602 horsepower naturally aspirated engine, the v10 is so smooth that it doesn't seem to have to work hard to give you its performance, it just seems to be this kind of progressive and undramatic engine, it's very good -The natural car The Audi is very relaxing, there are no limits to its performance, it has a little understeer just to let you know that you are close to the limit, it is not as marked as the McLaren and it feels very agile for such a car. big and heavy.

We always try Audi's exterior design and I'm afraid I'll do it again. This one appears to be about 10 longer and about 10 wider. I know the edges are a little sharper and that sort of thing, but in my opinion it looks like it's been swelled a fraction more than offsetting that width, if you will, which I think is a good thing because there's a lot more width in the cabin that there. it's in the mclaren and while mclaren has progressed with their interior design, it's not a patch on the

audi

, it's very well designed and the type of materials and craftsmanship on display reminds you of a sort of german pagani in a What What kind of way?

What happens with a naturally aspirated engine of course is that you actually have to use the revs and above about 5000 this really there we go takes off but below that if you get caught out of

gear

the mclaren will give you for dead and The Porsche can be combined with the McLaren, which has such an intuitive chassis, gearbox and engine, and the whole way they work together feels very, very good. It just doesn't have the same cohesion. I don't think the Porsche 911 turbo would give. For us, the concept of an everyday supercar is still a powerful machine with a twin-turbo flat-six engine placed behind the rear axle developing 552 horsepower and four seats and four-wheel drive in front, so I think sometimes It's pretty easy to make the decision.

The 911 turbo is a given because you see them around a lot, it's relatively tall, it looks a little more ordinary than the others and yet you take it on a good road and it actually still has the guts to go down it very fast. and, quite excitingly, you just develop this technique with it where you hit the brakes a little bit and just increase the power and voila, it's all about managing the turbos. The turbos absolutely dominate the Porsche experience, but it's a very easy car to live with. with the

porsche

you have these lovely upright A pillars and this big panoramic windscreen, you sit a little higher, it feels very drivable, you're very comfortable and all the changes are familiar german engineering and quality, but it doesn't have the same immediacy of the chassis because it weighs a little more than the mclaren and doesn't have the same type of steering response.

The steering of the McLaren is a bit prominent actually, but I think it has the size of the ra. I really think the 570 isn't as calm as its rivals, but it's quite happy and when you want to put the hammer down it will reward and thrill you in a way that none of the rivals can match, it's our number one.