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what is a supercar anyhow usually it's a ride that cost more than two hundred thousand has lots of horsepower and looks the part but bring many so-called supercar to a racetrack and they simply don't and as you're out McLaren does things differently the 675 longtail cost me up four hundred thousand has six hundred sixty-six horsepower but it lives in breeze at the racetrack this thing kicks ass I'm at Monticello Motor Club in upstate New York and this is a place I know well like really well Ferrari well Lamborghini well racecar well I've driven almost everything here there are a lot of supercars out these days it's a lot of ways you could spend a hundred grand two hundred grand or in the case of what we're driving today four hundred thousand dollars why would you do that because you want people to be impressed because you want people to like you because you want a really shiny object well although those maybe make sense but in the case of this sex is 675 it's because you probably actually know how to drive this is a surgeon's instrument you hear that a lot and usually it's total in this case not this SIG is for real it's got supreme balance it's got actual downforce which means that you carry more speed through the corners you don't need to rely on these great carbon ceramic brakes of certainly can and it's got a 666 horsepower which just screams me down these straightaways but just carry more speed than I've ever been able to carry on this racetrack the long tail is an old name in the McLaren heritage the f1 our first road car was successfully erased in a few forms at one LeMond 20 years ago and the f1 long tail was kind of the classic ultimate iteration of the car and so when we were looking for a name for the new car our sportiest or most track Oriya and a model long tail came back and it was a good fit with the history of the brand and really so it's got this huge fin on the back and when you brake the big goes like this and captures the wind and it's one of the things that makes this car so magical and so that's also it looks a little different than the standard model right yeah absolutely and then you call that it works it's it's it's not just show and yeah compared to the 650 it's actually 50% wider and it goes across the whole rear deck of the car which makes a race cars rolling bias which shows so I passed that guy earlier today he's in a real race car he's will see one of the three asking for an order Bank yeah yeah yeah he actually was a matter of fact and that's the thing is out here at a place called is Monticello it's a private club guys do exactly what we did today they drive up their expensive cars they drive them some of those cars I've had out here by really famous brands and they don't hold up this thing is like a pinnacle of engineering you have to be kind of a drivers driver to get why it's so awesome but dude it was awesome now this car wants you to be in control but it will do exactly what you tell it to it's like get in really close to this curb break really late here oh yeah get off the brake back on the gas all the way back over here in oh yeah I wouldn't ask this from many cars for expected to perform like most cars this is four hundred thousand dollars of speeding goodness the submit' engines that means it's behind your head and then it's got a great whale to it I've actually got it left in automatics a transmission right now I could be shaft shifting using these uh these flappy paddles but it's so good that I don't need to and you know what if the machine is smarter than me well in hell with it is smarter than me what am I gonna do I'm driving better with it in automatic than I probably would be in manual mode so this car is just it's so giving it's a sweetheart it's so phallus it's just this car is made to really do things now they're clearly inane things they're things we maybe don't need to do per se but if you're into it it's like anything else you want the best instrument you can possibly find and in my actually spirits right now this is one of the best instruments I've driven in a long time it's not potentially ever this is a driver's car do they care so much about getting this little things right then in the end it creates something that's much better than you have any hope for it to really be what's interesting is this is sort of there are more expensive cars or completely less expensive cars in the McLaren line this might be the most magical spot if you got 400 grand