McLaren GT Rental in San Diego
The yellow McLaren GT with the black interior is based in San Diego. It is the McLaren built for somewhere to be, softer and quieter than a 570S, with a glass tailgate over a bay that takes golf clubs, and it is the car for the Torrey Pines trip, the airport pickup with real bags, the coast run to dinner in La Jolla. The doors still go up. Delivery runs through San Diego, Orange County and the Inland Empire.
Need a driver?
A chauffeur is available on request for this car, so you can take the back seat and let the arrival do the talking.
How It Drives
The GT rides taller than the 570S, 110 mm of ground clearance before you touch anything, with softer front springs under it, so the first driveway lip and the first speed bump in La Jolla pass without the wince. The 4.0 liter twin-turbo V8 runs smaller turbos than the 720S it came from, so it pulls from low revs with less of the wait, 612 hp, and it gets properly angry near the 8,500 rpm redline. The steering is hydraulic and it talks the whole time. The cabin is still a McLaren, low and snug, carbon tub, dihedral doors, no Park gear and the brake lever by your left knee. Take it along Torrey Pines Road past the Gliderport and the Salk Institute to the Cove, ocean on your right, bags in the back. That is this car.
How It Photographs
Yellow on a long-tailed McLaren is the loud choice, and this paint is more yellow than gold. In direct sun it goes flat and bright and the black intakes and dark wheels become hard shapes against it. In open shade it warms toward gold and the long rear deck shows its curve. After dark it holds colour under streetlight, so the night shot works. The frame to take is the rear three-quarter, doors up, ocean behind, because the long tail is what marks it as the GT. Shoot the black door inner against the yellow sill close. These photos were taken on the coast road above La Jolla with the Pacific below, and that is still the spot.
Why This One
Yellow over a black cabin is the McLaren GT that holds its colour from direct sun to streetlight. It is the touring car in the McLaren range, softer front springs, 110 mm of ground clearance, a glass tailgate over a 420 liter bay that takes golf clubs, and 612 hp from the twin-turbo V8 when the road opens. The doors still go up. $1,095 a day with a $2,000 deposit, based in San Diego. Book it for the Torrey Pines trip or the airport pickup with real bags.
What's On This One
This is the McLaren GT, the touring car in the range. The 4.0 liter twin-turbo V8 with 612 hp, a 7-speed dual-clutch, rear-wheel drive, a carbon tub with a taller rear structure to carry the luggage bay, dihedral doors, memory-foam power seats and the glass tailgate over the 420 liter rear bay are all standard, with another 150 liters under the nose. This car is yellow over a black cabin with black leather seats, a black steering wheel and black door inners, and it rides on dark multi-spoke wheels. 2 seats. No CarPlay on this generation of the car, so bring a phone mount for navigation.
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