McLaren 720S
Why 4.0: Faster than anything near the price and traded like a position: short hold times, spec-flipping, depreciation anxiety. The pace is real; the attachment isn't.
Layout
Natural habitat
Ride comfort
Sound
The M840T is a flat-plane V8 that will rev to 8,100, and with the sports exhaust the top end genuinely hardens. But two large turbos absorb most of it, and much of what reaches you is intake and wastegate rather than combustion. The recognised weak point of a devastating car.
8-cylinder · turbocharged · 8,100 rpm redline · rated 6.7 / 10 for engine sound
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €239k (2018) → €193k (2026), trending down · illustrative data
Child seats · ISOFIX
There aren't any — strict two-seater.
No ISOFIX; McLaren's occupant-classification mat in the seat base auto-deactivates the passenger airbag the moment a child seat is buckled in, confirmed by a dash-mounted 'passenger air bag deactivated' light.
McLaren Sports/Super Series Owner's Handbook
The long version
McLaren's own depreciation reputation became self-fulfilling here — buyers who'd heard the brand doesn't hold value the way Ferrari or Lamborghini does started trading out before the car could prove them wrong, producing exactly the churn they worried about. The 720S is genuinely the fastest thing near its price point, but that number sells the car more than it keeps anyone attached once the next McLaren or a tempting Ferrari trade-in shows up. Values cratered early and have only partly recovered, and the ownership pool still looks more like short-term position-holders than people planning to keep the car a decade.