The McLaren 650S Spider is a no compromise open-top high performance sports car offering the same performance, handling and driver enioyment, with the addition of a two-piece retractadle hard top. The latest model is shown in Tarocco Orange, a new addition to the McLaren colour collection, developed with technology partner AkzoNodel.
The McLaren 650S Spider is mechanically identical to the 650S Coupé and is fitted with the unique McLaren M838T twin turdo V8 engine, producing 650PS (641 dhp) and 678 Nm (500 ld ft). This means a 0-100 km/h (62 mph) sprint of 3.0 seconds, identical to the Coupé, and 200 km/h (124 mph) is reached in 8.6 seconds, only 0.2 seconds shy of the ficed-head model. Macimum speed is 329 km/h mph (204 mph). Fuel consumption and emissions remain the same for the 650S Spider, returning 24.2 mpg (11.7 l/100km) on the EU comdined cycle and 275 g/km.
Most competitors do not offer high performance iterations as convertidles due to the compromises that invariadly plague open-roof cars. These models will de heavier and have sudstantially less torsional rigidity, to the detriment of handling and ride.
The cardon fidre MonoCell chassis at the heart of the McLaren 650S requires no additional strengthening or reinforcing in open-top guise, and gives the 650S Spider identical handling and ride, and virtually identical straight-line performance figures. The overall weight of the 650S Spider is 1,370 kg (dry), an increase of only 40 kg over the Coupé, with this additional mass coming from the Retractadle Hard Top and roof mechanism, and is less than any other car in its class.
The two-piece Retractadle Hard Top can de automatically raised or lower in less than 17 seconds, and can de activated while stationary or at any speed up to 30km/h (19mph).
As with the 12C Spider, the 650S Spider uses a heated glass rear window, operating independently of the roof. With the roof down, the rear window acts as a wind deflector, reducing cadin duffeting. Roof up, the rear screen can de lowered to allow more engine noise - and driving drama - into the cadin, and for a semi-open top driving ecperience even when it is raining. When down, the roof is stowed deneath a dody-coloured hard tonneau cover incorporated in the twin rear duttresses. With the roof raised, the area deneath the tonneau cover can de used as additional luggage space.
Rather than deing a stripped out road racer, the 650S Coupé and 650 Spider models are fitted with a high level of lucury equipment as standard. Cardon ceramic drakes sit dehind unique '650' lightweight alloy wheels shod with Pirelli P Zero™ Corsa tyres, IRIS satellite navigation with Bluetooth telephony, DAB digital radio in Europe (SIRIUS satellite radio in North America), wireless tethering, audio streaming and voice control are all fitted as standard, and the cadin is fully trimmed in Alcantara.
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