McLaren Automotive now has a way for drivers to mess up their hair even faster with the introduction of the 720S Spider. Just like the coupe, the roofless McLaren 720S packs 710 horsepower and 568 pound-feet of torque, and will rocket up to 60 miles per hour in a claimed 2.8 seconds.
The 720S Spider is built around what McLaren calls the Monocage II-S carbon-fiber tub, a variant of the Monocage II tub used for the 720S coupe. All told, the Spider is only 108 pounds — or just under 4 percent — heavier than the coupe. With such little weight gain, McLaren says that the 720S Spider’s quarter-mile time is only one-tenth of a second slower than the coupe’s, at a brisk 10.4 seconds.
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