McLaren 570S

The McLaren 570S is one of 101 McLaren models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 2015. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the McLaren 570S properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Ford Ford Escort, the Ferrari Ferrari 488, the Chevrolet Chevrolet Camaro — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the McLaren 570S reads like this: the record lists its engine as 3.8 L M838T E twin-turbo V8; quoted output is 570 PS; kerb weight is recorded at 1356 kg (570S coupé) (dry) / 1452 kg (570S coupé) (with fluids) / 1247 kg (600LT) (dry); drive goes through 7-speed Graziano SSG dual-clutch; the layout is Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel drive. Worked together, those figures give roughly 420 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the McLaren story

Within McLaren's own catalogue the McLaren 570S sits alongside the McLaren M15, the McLaren M16, the McLaren MCL33, the McLaren MCL34. It was succeeded by the McLaren Artura / McLaren GT (570GT). Design is credited to Rob Melville. Assembly is recorded at United Kingdom: Woking, Surrey, England.

On the record

When new, the list price on record was £143,250.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the McLaren 570S costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.