What will the McLaren 600LT be like to drive?

If you had to guess what a limited-run McLaren Sports Series model finale would be like, would this be it? I think it might.

We've driven the 600LT at Goodwood. Here's what we thought

Power is up, weight is down, although by margins that surprised me. Who’d have thought there was 96kg you could fairly easily dispatch from the 570S?

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What I’m particularly interested in is what the suspension is like. Sports Series cars get more conventional coil-sprung suspension than the hydraulically linked Super Series cars, so it’ll be intriguing to see how the 600LT rides. Will it be harsh? No McLaren, even the Senna, has been so far, so I wonder what the character will be like; how far it’ll be removed from the regular 570S.

And that’s the biggie, as I see it: it’s called LT, after all. Given the fact that the 675 and F1 have been the only recipients of the Longtail name so far, and that they’re both fairly senior pieces of machinery, this needs to be seriously good to justify it.

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Matt Prior

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Matt is Autocar’s lead features writer and presenter, is the main face of Autocar’s YouTube channel, presents the My Week In Cars podcast and has written his weekly column, Tester’s Notes, since 2013.

Matt is an automotive engineer who has been writing and talking about cars since 1997. He joined Autocar in 2005 as deputy road test editor, prior to which he was road test editor and world rally editor for Channel 4’s automotive website, 4Car.

Into all things engineering and automotive from any era, Matt is as comfortable regularly contributing to sibling titles Move Electric and Classic & Sports Car as he is writing for Autocar. He has a racing licence, and some malfunctioning classic cars and motorbikes.