Whenever McLaren
releases a new model, renderings quickly flood the internet showing the vehicle
as a convertible and, most of the time, these renderings prove to be quite
accurate. With this McLaren GT Spider rendering, though, things are a little
different.
The first thing to
point out about the GT Spider from X-Tomi Design is quite predictable, in that
it has a similar removable roof design to other McLaren convertibles, such as
the 720S Spider. This means the car wouldn’t look drastically different from
the coupe and thanks to the use of a removable hardtop, would likely be almost
as comfortable as well.
However, this is in
all likelihood merely a “what if?”, since we don’t expect McLaren to offer a
Spider version of the new GT. While it’s typical for supercar manufacturers to
follow up their new coupes with convertibles, the GT is quite unlikely to
follow suit. McLaren is promoting the car as a grand tourer, not a supercar,
and spent considerable money and resources on developing a mid-engine car that
offers superb luggage capacity. In fact, the GT can accommodate a total of 570 liters of stuff thanks to a large luggage area below the
tailgate and a luggage compartment at the front.
Creating a McLaren
GT Spider would certainly be possible thanks to the strength of the car’s
carbon fiber MonoCell II-T monocoque, but a folding roof would take up valuable
space at the rear, meaning the car would likely be only a little more practical
than the 720S.
Of course, since
there is no word whatsoever from Woking, we can merely speculate on that and we
might be proven wrong in the future. Which we wouldn’t mind, really, as we’re
sure an open-top GT would still be a blast.
