Any 570s owners here

Lovely - the rear is epic, although the front is a bit muted compared to the 650S (or is it me?).

570S is crazy quick - good luck and congrats!

 

Looks like they let you "take the baby home from the hospital". Great sales technique for high end cars...I'd have a very hard time taking her back.

 

Congrats!! Its a great choice and color

 

Congrats! I saw a pearl orange one at McLaren Dallas a few weeks ago. I was iffy about photos, but it looks great in person. The nose is lower to the ground than it looks in pictures, so it looks sharper. I really like the seating position.

 

Congrats!! Love the color and the interior is off the chain!

I own a 12c spider and love it. Poked around a 570 while visiting the MTC. Thought it was amazing. Really want to drive one

 

The 570S has a completely different driving feel to the 12C and 650S. The other 2 felt somewhat faster but also felt weird over uneven pavement and in the corners while the 570S feels much better connected and a lot more fun to pilot. I get what the smart suspension of the other 2 cars are doing but it's hard (near impossible) to use the resulting speed advantage outside of a track.

The frontal appearance of the 570S is a weak point. I think the lower section of the nose, the splitter, would look much better in body colour. My salesman flashed me a photo of one and it did look better to me, however briefly.

 

I got to do a nice, long test drive in one at the Amelia Island concours this year. By the end of the drive it had me doing all kinds of inappropriate math in my head, trying to come up with a way to get one of these beauties in my garage. All modern sports cars seem to be touted as "easy to drive" around town, and the 570S certainly was. The difference to me is it still felt alive even at low speeds. It just has a great feel. Then when you do open it up, performance is hugely impressive. It sounds great, and I like that you can actually hear and feel the turbos coming on board. It seems like all manufacturers consider the holy grail of turbo technology to be "zero lag", but I honestly LIKE a tiny bit of lag and I like hearing the turbine whine....I want a turbo car to FEEL like a turbo car, and the 570S accomplishes this without any real negative characteristics. If we are going to put turbos on everything these days anyway, why not celebrate the fact that the car is turbocharged and have a little fun with it, instead of trying to hide it?!? (I'm looking at you, Porsche.) The steering and suspension both felt great and very lively. Great road feel, perfectly judged weighting. Love the interior. The sales guy also mentioned a GT version that will be coming out, that will be more of a glass hatchback design with a bit more luggage space and slightly different rear styling. Haven't seen any pics yet but that sounded very interesting to me. Hopefully these will have some typically British depreciation and I can not feel so guilty about snatching one up in a few years!

As Ferris once said, "If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up".


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I drove a 570s last month and I'm still looking at what needs to go to afford one, they are just amazing things to drive.

Here are the initial details of the GT.

Everything you need to know about the McLaren 570GT | Top Gear
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I want one

 

I had an order on one last year but cancelled it as I moved cross country and joined a startup and already have 6 cars.. So was trying to be moderately practical and exercise some restraint! I still really want one and will have one someday.

 

This is the one car I considered selling my Lotuses to buy.

Congrats on pulling the trigger.

 

I couldn't be more in love with the 570S and I have four McLarens including P1, 650S, 675LT and the 570S and despite that I find myself very drawn to drive it whenever I can pry it away from my wife I drove a 570GT a few weeks ago in the UK and it was absolutely stellar. At some point I expect we'll trade our 570S for a 570GT because my wife isn't about going 10/10ths and she's happy to have the extra cargo room behind the seats and wouldn't mind the quieter, and ever-so-slightly softer, car to putter around town in. From my drive of the 570GT I felt the driving differences between the 570S and the 570GT are very minor (in other words it's still the same incredibly sweet load of fun the S is and would feel totally at home on a track) but I really liked the gorgeous coach work feel of the cargo area and the panoramic glass roof.

Plus the GT doesn't scream for loading it up with carbon fiber like the coupe does so I can put some money into the carbon ceramic brakes (the GT comes standard with steel brakes) instead. We already put all the luxury options into our 570S that come standard with the GT so I expect the price to be very similar.

If you guys get the chance to buy one of these I highly recommend it. Despite the fact that it's the "baby" McLaren and they call it a "sports" series instead of a super car - it is still considerably faster than my 458 was and, in my opinion, more fun to drive. The only thing it lacks compared to the 458 is the raucous sound of the NA V8 engine. But it sounds pretty good if you put the sport exhaust on (we didn't on ours because my wife didn't want a loud car)

I should add that I have tracked our 570S as well. Pro tip: turn the ESC mode to "ESC Dyn" (dynamic ESC) and it's an absolute HOOT to drive on the track. I took it (along with my P1 and 675LT) to a McLaren-run track day at COTA. At first I was thinking it too dialed back for a McLaren on a track. And even my instructor was wondering why we weren't powering out the corners (it has 562 HP in a pretty light car!) then he said "oh crap, I forgot to tell you about that button, without it the nannies think you're the street and trying to keep wheel spin and slip angle to a minimum). So hit the button and the car changed personalities in an instant. All of a sudden it was INCREDIBLE! I never turn ESC off on any of my other McLarens because the P1 turns it off automatically when you put it in race mode, the 650S doesn't seem to need it turned off and the 675LT is built to be track-oriented so it defaults to very permissive slip angles when you put it track mode anyway. But apparently McLaren thinks the 570S buyers might not want to really go crazy when they're on the track so they put the two most permissive modes of ESC on a button. If you press it once you get ESC Dynamic. If you hold it down you get ESC Off. I'm not a race driver so ESC dynamic was the winner for me! It really transformed the car! I'm sure it was still helping me go faster but I never could feel it doing it's job of keeping me safe like I could before we pressed that button. It let me have lots and lots of fun.

Here's 3 of my four from that day at COTA (L-R 570S, P1, 675LT - not shown 650S Spider)...
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4 mclarens!?

 

Wow Mark, what a line up! If you don't mind me asking how does the P1 compare to 675? Any reason to pay 5x the price in the secondhand market for a P1 in your experience?

 

Mark - I'm available for adoption should you be in need of an heir.

 

Awesome write-up and collection Mark. Nice to see you here and hope that you are well.