McLaren 600LT Spider review

£201,500 is a lot of money. And you won’t be paying that – you’ll be up around the £225,000 mark by the time you’ve added extra carbon and other tasty bits. But this is not a car that should be considered alongside the regular 540C and 570S – good though they are. Its dynamic ability transcends the theoretical entry-level supercar class it sits in.

And besides, While regular Sports Series McLaren’s are likely to be a buyer’s only supercar, the likelihood with LT buyers is that they already have a stable full of stuff. Production of this one, like the LT Coupe, is limited. Not to an exact number, but by production timescales. It’s likely less than a thousand will be made in total.

Claimed economy/CO2 stands at 23.2mpg/276g/km – and about the only thing you need to know about that is that the fuel tank empties itself very, very fast if you keep the turbos busy, but can be tempted up towards 30mpg if you’re just bowling along a motorway.

Options are almost endless, and if you do find yourself at a loss of what else to fit, then McLaren’s MSO Special Operations division will be only too pleased to make some suggestions. One thing that would seem to be right up the LTs street is MTT: McLaren Track Telemetry, a £1,370 option that includes three cameras (forwards-facing, rearward and cabin) and overlays various speed and cornering G data so you can watch yourself drive over and over again.