One-of-25 McLaren MSO 688HS for sale

We all know that McLaren loves a special edition motor vehicle. Get the Senna, for instance, which was afterwards adopted up by the GTR, the LM, the GTR LM and the US-only Sabre. Or how about the Elva? Can you remember how quite a few variants of the Speedster ended up built? Trouble is, when you flip the faucet so righteously on, you do run the hazard of diluting points a touch. Or even a ton. 

But that wasn’t constantly the case. Shortly after the MP4-12C’s arrival in 2011, photographs began circulating of a tweaked version of the V8 supercar termed the HS (or High Activity), that includes a new front conclude and rear bumper. It was shrouded in secrecy at the time, with McLaren basically indicating it was the most recent generation to come out of MSO and that only a handful would be manufactured. We all believed that HS would develop into the new identify for McLaren’s track products, but as a substitute it would only at any time finished up on two designs (very well, that we know of) in the company’s record so much: the aforementioned MP4-12C HS, and the auto we have in this article: the a lot more radical 688HS.

For the 688HS (or just MSO HS), McLaren’s spec ops staff took the previously wonderful 675LT and set to get the job done on turning it into a race car with numberplates. Firstly, power from the LT’s 3.8-litre twin-turbo V8 was elevated to (you guessed it) 688hp, with the utmost 516lb ft of torque now accessible from a considerably wider window concerning 3,000-7,000rpm. The comprehensive whack is out there in all driver options, also, so never be expecting points to relaxed down when switching into ‘normal’ method.

Of training course, it is apparent there is absolutely nothing remotely usual about the 688HS just from the way it seems to be. The total silhouette of the 675LT stays, only we now get a dive planes up entrance, slats above the entrance wheel arches and a significant energetic rear wing that generates up to 220kg of downforce at 150mph. The cherry on the cake – and a ought to-have on the MSO possibilities checklist – is the roof snorkel that would make the 688HS appear like a fashionable day F1 GTR.

Also, MSO set the 688HS on a little bit of a food plan. The splitter, entrance bumper, facet skirts, bonnet, roof, engine bay, rear bumper and diffuser are all made from carbon fibre, as are all the wings and winglets. Even the air conditioning controls have been moved to preserve body weight and as a small (ok, huge) bonus, the HS will come with the P1’s carbon fibre bucket seats. These are topped off with considerably required four-position harnesses and McLaren’s Monitor Telemetry system. 

This 688HS normally takes items a step more with its MSO Racing Green paint and yellow pinstripes highlighting just about every update in excess of the lavatory normal 675LT. There weren’t a massive sum of optional extras, supplied it is a bundle of rather a lot almost everything MSO features shy of a a single-off establish, but the primary customer opted for the Alcantara inside in excess of the leather-based option. Sure, it’s a bit trickier to seem after, but it does provide with it a 3.5kg weight saving!

MSO only produced 25 examples of the 688HS, creating this car’s £599,995 selling price tag feel all the a lot more tempting. Seriously, there aren’t that a lot of keep track of honed supercars with double digit generation quantities likely for fewer than seven figures now – enable together one particular that can annihilate almost everything shy of a Senna at a observe working day. And when you take into consideration that the 675LT was by now a person of the best McLarens (of any stripe) you could purchase, a lighter, far more potent and rarer model truly does propose a exclusive version worthy of a second look.