The Great Compromise: McLaren 600LT vs. GT

Can McLaren stretch its supercar parts kit into a grand tourer?

It’s a dilemma. The truly desirable McLaren is the M8B that Bruce McLaren himself used in 1969 to slaughter that year’s Can-Am season. Or it’s the MP4/4 in which Ayrton Senna earned his first Formula 1 Championship, in 1988.

Maybe you’d argue for the F1, the street-legal V-12-powered beast of the 1990s that anyone with more than a quarter brain knows is the best road car ever built. And incidentally, in GTR form, the F1 took first overall in the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans. Problem is, even you, a mere millionaire, can’t afford any of those masterpieces.

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