But unlike the 5 70 GT, which was a mildly more practical 5 70 yes, this takes its continent crossing abilities a whole lot more seriously.

Clearly, McClaren is a master at taking a box of McConnell components like it's Mano sell carbon fibre Tub, two seats and mid mounted Turbo V A and the twin clutch gearbox and spinning it into an endless array of mid engined supercars.

There's now 12 distinct models across the Super Series sports Siri's ultimate Siris on motor sports, Siri's.

But this car sits in a distinct fifth pillar, all of its own, the grand touring pillar.

Then, believe me, McCown has even drawn us a handy little graph from the outside of the changes from a 7 20 s obvious.

The aluminium body is entirely new and less dramatic.

In its curvature, The know sits higher 110 millimeters from the ground or 130 millimeters with the optional nose lift system to help navigate speed bumps.

The tires are Pirelli P zeros with special sound deadening foam on the roof.

Re 3/4 window C pillar and rear deck are laminated, glazing for maximum visibility on minimum noise.

A huge intake behind the doors takes care of cooling off, or the air intake is set wide and high on the shoulder of the car and the exhausts widen low, sacrificing some of the diffuses efficiency to ensure you don't burn your leg hairs when you're unloading boot.

Yeah, sounds pretty good to Theo engine.

You guessed it is a four litre twin turbo V eight, but compared to the 7 20 yes, we've got new pistons here.

We've got a new low inertia turbo on.

It's less highly strung, so 611 brake horsepower on a broader, flatter talk of Peking at 465 pounds feet of talk.

It's also no salad Dodger at 1530 kilograms.

So although this thing will be nowhere near as quick as a 7 20 s around the track, it's still not slow naught to 62 in 3.2 seconds, not to 124 miles an hour in under nine seconds and a top speed of 200 in three miles an hour.

That's broadly on apart, then with the 5 70 s.

Yeah, as I said, Not so.

Then there's all the fine mechanical tweets aimed at making this car more bearable.

One along hold dr.

On around town, the steering is still hydraulic, but that and the brakes are more heavily assisted at slow speeds.

The spring rates bushes on anti roll bars are softer and the adaptive dampers have retuned for Karen says the driving experience is profoundly different to anything else it makes.

The focus here is on stability, not chuck ability, but we'll have to take the word on it for now.

Where the G T scores really highly, though, is luggage space with 7 20 s, you could fit a couple of weekend bags in the nose, perhaps a wafer thin mint behind the seats.

And with the GT, you still get the 150 liters in the front end, but you also get a massive 420 liters in the back.

Now that's just 10 litres less than a Volvo V 60 with the rear seats up peering in here.

I wouldn't sell the Volvo wagon just yet, but it is an incredibly useful space.

I'm told, in fact, that you can fit easily.

A full set of golf clubs in here, nestled in this groove in the engine cover.

And as luck would have it happened to have a set over here, shove these in, hit on their side.

They're going easy peasy off to the golf club in my McClaren This boot lining, by the way, is leather, perhaps at the less practical end of the spectrum.

But you can order ah, hard wearing fabric if you think you're gonna be lobbing in muddy Wellies and wet dogs.

Three interior layout is largely familiar, but there are a few key differences.

First is the fact that you say about two centimeters higher than you do in the 7 20 s.

And these seats aren't skeletal carbon fiber buckets for obvious reasons.

No there much softer and more accommodating than that.

These are trimmed in leather, but there is the option of cashmere fabric.

And while we're on the subject of materials the emphasis here is very much on luxury, not on speed.

So you won't find lots of exposed carbon fiber?

No, across the dashboard, you have semi aniline leather.

That's the stuff you get in a Rolls Royce and all this bright work around here that's chunky slabs of riel aluminium, the entertainment system that is new untold five times faster, Better maps, amore smartphone like interface in terms of visibility.

Well, it's pretty good, actually, thanks to that raised seating position and the fact that you got a ll the glazing behind you on Dhe, you can have endless fun playing with the electro chromatic panoramic roof above your head, which is switchable between five modes from fully transparent, almost fully take best way is thinking about this.

Carbon is just like the 600 lt place apprentice to the cellar.

Well, g t minus.

The three seater layer, of course, is very much a junior speed.

Clearly, this isn't quite a grand tour in the big, comfy Bentley Continetti team old.

The engine is in the back for starters, so it's still a car that's laced with supercar DNA.

But for all those buyers out there with 100 and 65 grand, burning a hole in their pocket, but for whom a clown's obsession with track performance might put them off.

Well, this car opens up new possibilities.

There's more luggage space, there's more comfort, and there's still more performance than you could legally use on the public road.

This, then, is the supercar that takes real life into account.