McLaren Solus GT: single-seater with 840 hp strong V10

Monterey Car Week is currently going on in California and that is exactly why AutoWeek is pumped with new super and hypercars on this Friday night. McLaren also accelerates in the United States and pulls the curtain on the Solus GT. The Solus GT does not have a biturbo 3.8 V8 as you are used to from almost all cars of the brand, but a 5.2 liter V10!

Before you immediately check your savings: all 25 copies of the McLaren Solus GT to be built have already been sold. In addition, those 25 undoubtedly happy future owners with the Solus GT are not even allowed on the public road. The Solus GT is a fiercely winged track car. What makes the car all the more remarkable is that it is in fact the production version of a car consisting only of pixels and imaginary numbers that McLaren made in 2017 for the computer game Gran Turismo Sport.

McLaren Solus GT

Let’s race through the numbers. As mentioned, the McLaren Solus GT has a 5.2 liter V10, a machine that whines up to 10,000 rpm and is mated to a seven-speed sequential transmission. This powertrain, according to McLaren, comes from racing and produces 840 hp and 650 Nm. Because the Solus GT weighs only 1,000 kilos, the moving mountain of spoilers thunders to a speed of 100 km/h in 2.5 seconds. Its top speed is over 320 km/h. All the folds, kinks, holes, flaps and spoilers that the Solus GT is rich in generate no less than 1,200 kilos of downward pressure at top speed. According to McLaren, the experience that the single-seater offers you is close to that in a Formula 1 car. In addition, you cannot adjust the position of your seat, but you move the complete set of pedals closer to you or further away from you.

McLaren Solus GT

Of course, the Solus GT is completely irrelevant to mere mortals, although the car offers a special insight into what you can play with if you already own everything else.