The last McLaren built with no hybrid system, sharpened from the 720S with quicker steering and a louder exhaust.
The McLaren 750S is the only car in our McLaren range built with no hybrid system at all, a two-seat, mid-engine supercar sharpened from the 720S with a 15% shorter final drive, a quicker steering rack, and a louder centre-exit exhaust. It draws the repeat renter, someone who already rented the 720S and wants the sharper version of that same idea.
Every gear feels shorter and angrier through that shorter final drive, and the steering is the heaviest in the McLaren range, so communicative you feel the texture change under each tire. It is built for a canyon road, and it runs stickier tires than the 720S to back that up.
The McLaren 750S draws the repeat customer most of all, someone who already rented the 720S and wants the sharper, newer version of the same idea. It also draws anyone who wants to say they drove the last McLaren built without a hybrid powertrain, before the whole range moves the other way. It is the pick for a renter who found the 720S's lack of CarPlay a real inconvenience rather than a minor complaint worth shrugging off. On a canyon road it also runs stickier Trofeo R tires than the 720S, which several reviewers noted felt like the previous car's real limiting factor all along.
McLaren builds the 750S in coupe and Spider bodies, and the named specifications on its order sheet change cabin materials rather than the car. Prometheus Exotics runs the Spider, the open version of the most developed car on this chassis.
The McLaren 750S Coupe is the fixed roof car and the lighter of the two bodies, running a 4.0 liter twin-turbo V8 that makes 740 hp through a 7-speed dual clutch gearbox, behind carbon racing seats and a fixed glasshouse roofline. It shares its interlinked hydraulic suspension and its brakes with the Spider. Prometheus Exotics does not run the coupe, so the roof is the single real difference between them.
The McLaren 750S Spider is the version Prometheus Exotics runs, with a one-piece carbon fiber roof that opens or closes in 11 seconds at up to 31 mph. The carbon tub needs no extra bracing to carry that roof, so the Spider weighs only about 108 pounds more than the coupe and drives essentially the same way. A limited Le Mans edition was also built on this same Spider body.