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The 2020 McLaren GT Is the $250,000 Ultra-Luxury McLaren

Feb 19, 2020
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cars of course to some extent but they are mostly supercars and sports cars with a rough ride and loud exhausts this is supposed to be the new and luxurious mclaren grand touring. The most luxurious car that McLaren has ever made today. I'm going to find out if it really is. I borrowed this mclaren gt from oguera la jolla, which just became mclaren san diego, the new mclaren dealership here in san diego, now mclaren san diego. It has all of the latest McLaren models and that includes the new GT that just arrived this month to fill a big luxury gap in the McLaren lineup.
the 2020 mclaren gt is the 250 000 ultra luxury mclaren
At first glance, it may not look like a luxury touring car, and I'm especially skeptical when I look at it. By the numbers, it has 612 horsepower, will go from zero to 60 in 3.1 seconds and reach a top speed of 203 miles per hour, which, aside from the mid-engine layout and two-seat layout, is not typically a luxury. touring car, but mclaren insists that the interior is much more luxurious. McLaren says the suspension is tuned for a more supple ride and it certainly looks a lot less racy and crazy than the McLaren 720, which is based on the price, however it's very much into supercar exotic car territory, this starts around two hundred and ten thousand dollars and that's before the options are plentiful and expensive, so today I'm going to take you on a tour of the new mclaren gt and I'm going to show you all the cool quirks and features of the latest mclaren, then I'm going to take it out on the road and i will drive it and then give it a score from doug and for more of my thoughts on the gt click the link below to visit autotrader.com oversteer, good.
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I'm going to start with the quirks and features of the mclaren gt by just getting in, which isn't the most obvious thing because there is no immediately apparent door handle here, it turns out the door handle is behind it. the door is a small panel that is painted the same color as the body, you push it and then the window goes down a little and the door opens, so push it and now the door is open and I can get in, but before I do that there is a Little hidden party trick with this door handle, if you push and hold it, the window will automatically drop to the door, allowing you to roll down the windows before getting in the car to cool it down a bit. a little bit before I climb in so I'll do it now, unfortunately the only downside to this is that once you roll down the window you can't roll it back up from the outside, you can't push the door handle back up or hold it.
the 2020 mclaren gt is the 250 000 ultra luxury mclaren
Press the lock button on the remote, the window is down so once you roll it down you better be okay with the fact that it will stay down unless you get in the car and put it back up using the switches. the window and then speak. of interesting things to open in this car i want to move on to the tailgate yes this car has a tailgate and to open it you press a little button on the key fob and then it opens automatically on the long list of things i never thought a mclaren would do that It was definitely pretty high up and of course when you're ready to close the tailgate it's no surprise that there is a little button inside the tailgate that shows a McLaren with the tailgate open.
the 2020 mclaren gt is the 250 000 ultra luxury mclaren
You press that button and then the tailgate opens automatically. down and it closes itself without slamming the door here and probably the best thing about this whole process is that the button on the key fob to open the tailgate is the same button that you press on other mclarens to open the front trunk here if you want to open the front trunk, just press the front half of the car diagram, but if you want to open the tailgate, press the back half of the car diagram and then the tailgate opens automatically and you can come back here to store your luggage now, the reason why Yes you have this power tailgate, of course, in the back of this car you have a giant cargo area.
Most other mclaren models have the engine on display back here, but not this one. Instead, you have a giant cargo area. Now the liftgate opens and reveals a cargo area that begs the question: is this really a McLaren hatchback? I'll let you debate that for now I'm going to give you some numbers. It has 14.8 cubic feet of cargo space behind the seats, combine that with the front trunk and you have 20.3 cubic feet of total cargo space in your mclaren, that's more than a toyota camry, I mean it, and it's almost the same That a Honda HRV with the seats up, is a compact crossover and the McLaren rivals it in cargo space, in fact, the cargo area back here is so large that McLaren says it has room for golf clubs.
You can't get golf clubs in a Ferrari 488, although honestly, could you get golf clubs here? Is it big enough for that? It seems like an exaggeration. but since i'm committed to bringing you the most comprehensive car reviews, i have a set of golf clubs and now i'm going to try loading them into the back of the mclaren gt. Now that they are here, we press the button. And well, I think it's safe to say that you can, in fact, now get a set of golf clubs in the back of a McLaren GT, while you can be excited to celebrate the fact that there's finally a McLaren you can ride in. load your golf clubs.
It's important to mention that having this cargo area back here means that you can't see any of the engine in the 720. You can see a little bit of the engine when you walk to the back of the car and it's completely covered. by this leather-lined cargo area, but this cargo area is impressively practical, for example, there are six different hooks that you can use back here to tie down your cargo and prevent it from rolling and getting damaged while you're driving in your McLaren, that's the type What you would see in the trunk of a family sedan, they have it here and this mclaren hatchback too and then another item worth mentioning here, although the engine can no longer be seen because of this cargo area, still is here.
It's still a mid-engined car, it's all under the cargo area, and there are two engine reminders on either side of the cargo area. You've got little caps on the right, you've got the oil cap, unscrew it and that's where you can add. oil and on the left you have the coolant cap, unscrew it and you can add coolant, but that is as close to the engine as you will get in your mclaren; otherwise you just have a beautiful and luxurious leather lined cargo area back here, perfectly in keeping with what you would expect from the luxury mclaren gt and then we move to the rear of the gt where a flaw of this car becomes evident right away and it's the fact that right above this cargo area is a huge rear window and that means Whatever you put in here is actually visible to anyone who walks by and it's not just visible, it's on display.
Look everyone, this is my golf bag, very nice, needless to say, although it is a big cargo area if you want to put something valuable in your GT. We'll want to use the front trunk or get some kind of cover that you can put on those cargo tie downs so no one can see it and then we move on to the turn signals on the mclaren gt and as you can see, They're great, they just light up as part of this thin line strip of brake lights and they light up more and more orange as they flash and it looks really cool.
In previous videos I told you that turn signals like this don't meet US regulations and I'm not exactly sure how this car fits in, it's some kind of demo show car, it may not be a US spec model and that could be the reason you now have those turn signals, speaking of turn. points out a couple of other notable items related to turn signals with this car, one is on the side and that is the fact that the red rear reflector comes on like a turn signal when you turn on the turn signal, so it really it flashes and it's the same on the front. with the orange front reflector that flashes as a turn signal when you turn on the turn signal, they are a little unusual, you don't see it very commonly when you go to the front of this car, although the turn signal is pretty standard. very much in line with other mclaren models that have turn signals with similar shapes and styles and finally, since i'm back here, we could also do it with the exhaust note.
Now remember that this is supposed to be a luxury, grand tourer, upper class McLaren, not an exotic sports car. Supercar, let's see if it sounds like that Next, we move on to the interior of the luxury McLaren, where you see many of the same touches here that you saw in the cargo area, specifically leather throughout, just look at this fully leather-finished interior. Leather and more leather, a big departure from the carbon fiber and Alcantara interiors often seen in basically every other McLaren. They use those materials to save weight. They are good for track use, but this is all about leather, no matter how heavy it is. beautiful it's luxurious and that's why it's on the luxury mclaren now it's worth noting that all this leather really transforms the experience at least from a visual perspective it looks very very different from any other mclaren here it looks a lot like a luxury car, which is how mclaren is presenting it, it's surprising that simply changing the materials can have so much effect, but this definitely doesn't feel like a mclaren interior, apart from its usual infotainment system, its steering wheel, that kind of thing, but beyond all the leather, there are There are a couple of other luxury features here because this is the luxury mclaren and by far the most notable is the sunroof.
Well, you look up at the sunroof and see a fairly simple glass panel, but you can adjust its brightness if you press a little. control on the roof, you can have the sunroof change immediately to let in more light, but if you decide that's too much light, there are several different stages of brightness you can choose from for the sunroof and, as you can see, it immediately changes to any stage you establish. It's really impressive, the sunroof can instantly change the amount of light it lets in. Almost as impressive is the control it allows you to do this.
On one side there is a moon, on the other side there is a sun and then there are these. little boxes in the middle, you push these boxes and they correspond to several different brightness levels for the sunroof and you can see that the box lights up when you push it and then the sunroof changes its brightness. It's all a very slick operation and very cool if you ever get in a car and decide that the sunroof just lets in too much heat, too much light? Well, you don't need just an ugly sunroof cover on this thing because it has magic glass, but it's not just the sunroof and leather that makes this a luxury car.
How about the fact that there is additional storage here? Most McLaren models don't have any door storage pockets because the doors open upwards and anything you had in there would just fall out, but this one can be seen inside the leather. On the door panel, you push this little pocket, it opens and reveals a fairly large storage compartment so you have some extra storage in your mclaren beyond the center console and whatever you can put in your pockets, and there is even more hidden storage than that because in the front. At the bottom of the seat there is a leather storage bag.
You can open it and then put small items back there, adding more storage space to this interior. This car does not have a glove box although it does have a center console storage area but still adding this extra storage helps take up some of the glove box slack that most mclaren owners wouldn't mind but it is good to have in the luxury mclaren and here's another nice luxury touch in this interior: it has sun visors of course all mclaren models have them. but all mclaren models do not have mirrors with visors because you don't need to look at yourself when you drive a mclaren you already know that you are great, but in the luxury mclaren there are mirrors and they fold separately. fold down the visor and then there is a second folding element which is the visor mirror and you have it on the driver's side and on the passenger's side so that both the driver and the passenger have their own visor mirrors so they can See how luxurious they are, and one more piece of luxury in this interior is the sound system.
It has a Bowers and Wilkins sound system and you can see on the door panels these beautiful aluminum speakers, absolutely gorgeous and surrounded by additional aluminum trim, an incredibly beautiful sound system, very luxurious. It fits this car, but despite all the luxury additions to this car, it is ultimately still a mclaren and has some usual elements of a mclaren supercar, for example if you look in the center console you can see a start button. This luxury touring car has launch control. It also has the little dials that allow you to change thedrive mode and both the drive and powertrain dials have settings for track mode, so you can enter track mode in this luxury McLaren Gran Turismo.
It's also worth noting that this car has butterfly doors, which isn't exactly what you'd expect from a grand tourer luxury car, but it now has them, making getting in and out a little more difficult than in a typical luxury car, so it's just one more element that makes me think this is more. a supercar than a real touring car and by the way, in terms of opening those doors, I already showed you how to do it from the outside, but from the inside it's pretty easy, there's just a little latch on the door panel, it's an electronic release mechanism, you pull it and the door opens. and then you have to do the rest of the work by pushing it yourself from there and then we move on to the infotainment system where you will find an interesting luxury item.
Here is an app marked as ambient, you press it and then it opens. its interior lighting color options there are six different color options and you can see that you can choose between the footwell and the cabin, you can select both and then any color you choose will be in both the footwell and the cabin or just You can choose one, for example, if you only want the footwells to be illuminated. on but you don't want your purple lights to spread all over the rest of the interior, you can do that, you can also remove them and then you won't have to put up with any of these ambient lighting colors and then another interesting one.
The element in the infotainment system is the climate controls. You go to the climate controls and the part where you direct where the air goes. It is not just an image of a person but of a person wearing a helmet. I love this little detail on all mclarens. A little attention to detail that emphasizes that they are paying attention to even the little things. I think it's a great touch. Another item worth noting in the climate control section of the infotainment system is the heated seats. This car has heated seats. and you can go to the climate controls and turn them on, but the problem is that the process of turning them on is quite cumbersome.
First you have to press the climate button below the infotainment screen that displays the climate controls and only then you can turn them on. on heated seats it really should just be a simple button like basically every other car, but since this is probably one of McLaren's first attempts at heated seats, I guess I'll give it a pass now in terms of the information system and entertainment other than that it's pretty standard nothing particularly unusual here compared to other mclarens it shares a fairly similar reasonably responsive infotainment system the only unusual thing is that it is placed vertically like a smartphone and not horizontally like in most the other cars, although I have noticed it more and more. vertical screens in the cars I've been testing the ford explorer the subaru outback all the new volvos mclaren has been doing it longer than anyone else now, next we move from the infotainment system to the other screen in this car and that would be on the gauge cluster the gauge cluster is not as interesting on the gt as it is on other mclaren models, for example it doesn't flip like on other mclarens.
Do you start the car and it flips over or slides into place? do that here, it's just fixed, it's a more regular gauge cluster, but I should mention that if you put this car in track mode, the gauge cluster layout will change from a standard layout to a more track focused layout, you can see it emphasizes your rpm and your gear a lot more and downplays your speed since you're not as worried about breaking the speed limit if you're on a race track and another interesting item in the gauge cluster when you turn this car off you can see sample a number of days, what exactly it is, how many days the battery has left without charge.
It's actually a brilliant idea because people who own McLarens often have large collections and keep their cars parked and not moving for a long period of time. it will show you how many days you can do that, so when you turn off your mclaren it says two days, you know, you'd better plug it in and charge the battery or maybe you'd better change the battery, that's actually a much better idea than the alternative , which is that you don't know how many days are left, you let the car sit, then you get in to drive it and, by the way, the battery is dead.
Another interesting element in this interior is the fact that you are here. with your stuff, since this is the mclaren hatchback and the entire interior compartment is completely open, but that means if you brake too hard your stuff will probably slide forward and hit you or damage something. There is a small bar here to try to store your things. instead, but it's definitely something worth thinking about, for example the way I loaded the golf clubs, they could easily slide forward if you're going to load them, you might want to turn them the other way, so if you brake the golf clubs hard.
It won't hit you as you pull up in your McLaren, that being said there is a front trunk on this car as I mentioned before and it's pretty big so if you have anything you really don't want to roll around and crush. Inside while you're braking you can always stick it in the front trunk and that's a nice safe place where none of that will happen, of course sticking something in the front trunk will also keep it away from anyone's prying eyes. who looks at the cargo area of ​​your mclaren and those are the quirks and features of the mclaren gt now it's time to take it out on the road and see how well it drives driving the mclaren gt now I thought this was just going to It was a little stupid and They were actually going to call a car GT and put a leather interior on it until I heard the exhaust note, uh, and it's clear this is no ordinary McLaren, they're trying to tone it down a bit. with sport and step up a bit with luxury and that exhaust note is a clear indication that it can still have the sporty performance of most mclaren models, but it's clearly not intended to be the car that will wake up your neighbors, so do it. they actually succeed, that's obviously the question and create a vehicle that feels like a gt car, a luxury car and the answer is yes and no, this is not a mercedes sl, it just isn't, it's clearly faster , more exciting, more exciting, uh, stronger in the middle. -engine, it's just not a car that you are going to ride luxuriously and just relax and even go over potholes like potholes in the lane line, you can say that they are potholes, they are not things, they are not just completely removed from consciousness , um, you can hear things I can feel things, but that being said, this is definitely a more relaxed McLaren.
I'm in sport mode right now and the exhaust is quieter than usual. The interior is more comfortable than a typical McLaren. The last two McLarens I drove were like 600 liters. p1 those things are so hard and so loud and the ride is just horrible and they are just a total challenge this definitely doesn't feel like that, uh, it feels more luxurious, more relaxed, I wonder if it still feels fast, yeah. it does, but it powers up in a very different way, it's actually kind of interesting, the speed is not what you get with a 720. I'm surprised it's fast, but it's definitely a more rational and reasonable power generation, it doesn't hit . you're in front of the 720 you're for it and it's like oh my god this is a new dimension this thing is not on that level it's actually interesting how different they've made this from the typical mclaren um it was really getting to this waiting to be good, they wrapped it in leather, they called it electric car, it didn't work, but actually many things about this car are different, the ride is more comfortable, safe, it's not so noisy, it's more comfortable inside, There's obviously more cargo space and some nice luxury touches like Bowers and Wilkins, and I think a lot of McLaren owners, if they're totally honest with themselves, this is the one they want.
I talked to a guy recently at Carson Coffin and he said oh I'm thinking about a 600 lt and you're going to pursue it. No, I just want something cool for the road and I'm thinking you don't want a 600 lt. The truth is that this is what you want. I would say this. It's a good car and it's probably the best McLaren all around, you get all the crazy performance numbers, it's not as expensive as a 720, it's not as fast, but you know for most people this would work, but you also get It's a more luxurious and reasonable kind of experience.
They've added enough luxury to make it a more rational car, but they haven't eliminated performance. So I think this ends up being a pretty good mclaren compromise and that's the mclaren. To me this is an even more exotic sports car than the real GT cars, just because of the driving experience, the performance figures, the sound, the looks, but I admit that it is more luxurious than all the other mclarens, which usually have a very hard, sporty and noisy drive. So if you're looking for a luxury car, I don't know, but if you're looking for a luxury mclaren, this is the place and now it's time to give the gt a doug score, starting with the weekend categories and designing the mclaren gt. an attractive car, a bit derivative but still attractive and it gets a 7 out of 10.
Acceleration mclaren says 0 to 60 is 3.3 seconds and it gets a 9 out of 10. Handling is pretty good, especially for a supposed luxury car and it gets an 8 out of 10. The fun factor is good, not at the level of the 720 or 600 lt, but still a lot of fun and it gets an 8 out of 10. Finally, the cool factor and the mclarens are cool , but of course this doesn't have the wow factor of the p1 or the 720 and scores a 7 out of 10 for an overall weekend score of 39 out of 50. Below are the daily categories and features, the gt is reasonably well equipped and gets a 6 out of 10. comfort is better than most other mid-engined cars and gets a 5 out of 10. quality is good, interior quality is fantastic, but we're all a little worried about reliability From the McLaren, it still gets a 7 out of 10.
Practicality is tough, this car has a lot of cargo space, but only two seats. I'm going to be nice and give it a 4 out of 10, rewarding it for having a lot more storage space, even if other cars with that score do. more room to put people finally value this is a reasonably priced car given the performance but it is likely to depreciate more than other mclarens it gets a 6 out of 10 for a total daily score of 28 out of 50. Added up and the score of Doug is 67 out of 100 and this is where he falls against many other modern GT and exotic cars.
Not surprisingly, the McLaren GT has a higher daily score than the 720, but a lower weekend score. Same goes for the gt versus the 600 lt, this is a good car for people who want to have fun with the McLaren without being crushed by a stiff suspension.

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