01-2015-mclaren-650s-spider-fd-1-jpg Matt Davis 02-2015-mclaren ... 650s-spider-fd-1-jpg Matt Davis There were a handful of key things we hoped for in this new 650S: more power and torque than ...

mclaren-650s-gt3-034-1-jpg Goodwood mclaren-650s ... with increased leg and headroom. Another key area that has been optimised is the level of refinement, underlining the focus on endurance ...

Among the key common components are ... See All 49 Photos It's a cool car, the new 650S, but patience and composure are not its prime strengths. Instead, the McLaren cultivates a more extroverted ...

Key objectives were more low-speed smoothness ... And, just in case, there's a winter mode. The McLaren 650S carbon brakes stop the car quickly and without excessive noise when driven at tame ...

I didn't even think about such trivial things as I sat there in Ron Dennis' sprawling empire, the McLaren Technology Centre, like a kid at Christmas, waiting for the key and the green light to go.

Around town, McLaren is low-key, a racer playing it cool. 650S blends in boulevard traffic, producing no wearisome turbo pops or histrionics like an Alfa Romeo 4C does. The ride is comfortable ...

Not McLaren. The 650S Spyder is designed to sacrifice no measurable ... Around the rest of the track, the key word is patience. Don't trail-brake the car too much, or you'll rotate it into some ...

McLaren has used the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed to reveal its all-new GT3-spec race car based on the latest 650S supercar. McLaren had said it was planning to showcase the latest track ...

No one at McLaren seems at all worried by any of this. They simply hand me the key to an orange 650S not quite as bright as the sun and say, "Off you go, then." I pray I don't hit the tree ...