Manuel Nathan
Last winter we heard rumors about McLaren working on a limited version of the Senna GTR Track car.
The McLaren dealership au Auckland has taken delivery of one of these cars and it looks absolutely amazing.
McLaren still hasn’t announced the Senna LM officially, and the car, as the name suggests, is an homage to the famous F1 LM that McLaren launched in the ’90s to celebrate the win in the 1995 24 hours of Le Mans finished with the F1 GTR race car.
The Senna LM will be inspired by the Senna GTR Track version but has been modified to be street-legal while it also features lots of unique elements to set it apart from the Standard Sennas, while also linking it back to the F1 LM.
The list also includes a set of retro wheels similar to those used on the legendary race-winning F1 GTR, along with the front fenders and the louvers and the removal of the clear panel in the doors and adding real gold on some of the mechanical parts, this including the legendary 24-carat gold coating for the heat shields in the engine bay.
The 4.0-liter twin-turbocharged V-8 has also been changed so that it now delivers around 800-horsepower, up from the standard Senna’s 789 hp. Changes involve port and polished heads, as well as new induction and exhaust systems. You’ll see even the exhaust tips highlight gold accents.
According to the earlier rumors, McLaren is producing just 20 examples of the Senna LM. The reports also point to there being three similar cars distinguished as the Senna Can-Am editions.
We could see even more unique McLarens built to celebrate this year’s 25th anniversary of the 1995 Le Mans triumph. British motorsport and engineering firm Lanzante, which fielded the winning F1 GTR and today offer road car conversions for McLaren’s track cars, has declared a new prototype that will be known as the LM 25 editions. Just seven of these will be produced, though it isn’t obvious which of McLaren’s cars they will be based on. McLaren has also just revealed the 720S Le Mans edition.
If you want this fresh take on a classic, you can… for a mere 1,580,000 USD which is a comparative deal regarding the P1 LM that preceded it cost a huge 3.8 million USD when it was revealed nearly four years ago, and an F1 LM would set you back about 10 times that today.
