McLaren's entry point, the lightest chassis in the range and the most playful on a twisting road.
The McLaren 570S is the lightest chassis in the McLaren range, a two-seat, mid-engine supercar whose simpler adaptive dampers and conventional anti-roll bars react to your input instead of smoothing it out for you. It is the first supercar for most renters who book it, drawing the same crowd a 750S draws at the lowest day rate we offer on the marque.
The 570S feels alive in your hands, hydraulic steering sending real texture from the tarmac back to you while the V8 pulls hard past 8,000 rpm. That lightness makes it the McLaren for a tight, twisting road, and the doors still carry a proposal, a birthday, or a first exotic rental.
The McLaren 570S is often a renter's first supercar, and the appeal is straightforward math rather than sentiment. The doors draw the same crowd a 750S draws, at a meaningfully lower day rate, while the driver gets a lighter, simpler car that many reviewers still prefer on a technical road over anything newer in the range. It suits a first exotic rental, a proposal or a birthday where the arrival matters as much as the drive, and any renter who has already driven a heavier supercar and now wants something that changes direction faster instead of something merely faster in a straight line.
McLaren built the Sports Series around one carbon tub and sold it as five distinct cars, from a detuned entry model to a stripped Longtail. Prometheus Exotics runs the 570S Coupe, the version that opened the range.
The McLaren 540C is the entry point to the Sports Series, the same carbon tub and 3.8 liter twin-turbo V8 detuned to 533 hp, with softer damper settings and steel brakes as standard. It was never sold in the United States, so Prometheus Exotics does not run one and most American drivers have never seen one in person.
The McLaren 570S Coupe is the trim Prometheus Exotics runs, the car that launched the Sports Series with 562 hp, dihedral doors and hydraulic steering rather than an electric rack. There are no named trim tiers on it, only option packs, so nose lift, sports exhaust and upgraded audio vary from one car to the next.
The McLaren 570S Spider adds a retractable hardtop that folds in 15 seconds at up to 25 mph, and the carbon tub needs no extra bracing to carry it, so the Spider weighs about 101 pounds more than the coupe. Prometheus Exotics does not run the Spider, only the coupe. Everything mechanical underneath the two bodies matches exactly.
The McLaren 570GT trades the coupe's rear deck for a side-opening glass hatch over a 220 liter touring shelf, and softens the springs, the tires and the steering to match. We do not run the 570GT. It is the Sports Series car built for distance rather than for a canyon road, and the easiest of the five to live with.
The McLaren 600LT is the Longtail version of this same platform, roughly 200 pounds lighter than the 570S with 592 hp, top-exit exhausts and a longer front splitter. It was built in coupe and Spider bodies in strictly limited numbers, and Prometheus Exotics does not run either body. It is the stiffest car in the Sports Series.