The McLaren Fast Car, also known as the McLaren Speedtail, is a three-seat, science fiction-looking thingy with bendy carbon fibre. Its power, weight, and structure together supposedly help it hit a speed of 402 kph. Recently, it did just that. A bunch of times. Like, 30 times.
McLaren sent the Speedtail out for high-speed tests at the Johnny Bohmer Proving Grounds at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, according to a company press release. The fast car went fast. So fast!!
How fast? It went 400 kph more than 30 times. You’d think doing it 15 times would have been enough (it would have been for me). But, no. McLaren wanted at least 30 runs before calling it a day. And following the conclusion of the high-speed tests is the start of customer car production in Woking, UK.
Production has already started as well, McLaren said, with the first deliveries scheduled for February 2020.Each and every one of those owners will get a car that someone else took to 400 kph. No greater honour on Earth exists. No need to do it yourself, now. A chap named Kenny Brack, McLaren’s chief test driver, has already done it for you. All that’s left for you to do is reap the bragging rights.
The Speedtail makes 1,055 horsepower and 848 lb-fot of torque. It’ll hit 300 kph from a standstill in under 13 seconds. It looks really cool. And it’s really fast.