--- title: McLaren 720S · HICONIUM description: "The second-generation Super Series arrived with a carbon upper cage, doors that breathe, and a factory quarter-mile claim the magazines promptly beat by two tenths. No production total was ever published — the 400 Launch Editions, 15 Apex cars and 50 Le Mans coupés are the only fixed numbers in the run." canonical_url: https://hiconium.com/vehicles/mclaren/720s image: https://hiconium.com/og/vehicle/mclaren/720s.png --- > HICONIUM · Index: https://hiconium.com/llms.txt · Every page: append `.md` or send `Accept: text/markdown`. > Path: [Home](https://hiconium.com/) › [Vehicles](https://hiconium.com/manufacturers) › [McLaren](https://hiconium.com/manufacturers/mclaren) › 720S > On this page: [The price and the proof](#the-price-and-the-proof) · [Woking replaces a family for the first time](#woking-replaces-a-family-for-the-first-time) · [Technical specifications](#technical-specifications) · [Buying interest, silently.](#buying-interest-silently) · [Open a file on yours.](#open-a-file-on-yours) · [One badge, 4 executions](#one-badge-4-executions) · [The people behind the car](#the-people-behind-the-car) ![A McLaren Orange 720S, front three-quarter view on a deep burnt-orange field in warm daylight](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/cars/mclaren-720s/hero-wide-2560.jpg.w1920.q90.webp) Market value · road $190K–$350K Typical $270K · 7 sales · -34% vs ’20–’24 $162K $371K [Open Market & Price](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/mclaren/720s#market) # 720S The 10-second sandbag The second-generation Super Series arrived with a carbon upper cage, doors that breathe, and a factory quarter-mile claim the magazines promptly beat by two tenths. No production total was ever published — the 400 Launch Editions, 15 Apex cars and 50 Le Mans coupés are the only fixed numbers in the run. [View details](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/mclaren/720s#overview) ![A McLaren Orange 720S, front three-quarter view on a deep burnt-orange field in warm daylight](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/cars/mclaren-720s/hero-mobile-2160.jpg.w3840.q90.webp) Market value · road $190K–$350K Typical $270K · 7 sales · -34% vs ’20–’24 $162K $371K [Open Market & Price](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/mclaren/720s#market) Market value · road $190K–$350K Typical $270K · 7 sales · -34% vs ’20–’24 $162K $371K ’20 ’26 Market history · in the terminal [Open Market & Price](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/mclaren/720s#market) Power 720 PS (M840T 4.0 V8 · 770 Nm at 5'500) 0–200 km/h 7.8 s (factory · 0–100 in 2.9 s) Quarter mile 10.1 s (Motor Trend · factory claims 10.3) Top speed 341 km/h (212 mph · Spider open: 325) Structure Monocage II (carbon tub and upper cage) Dry weight 1'283 kg (lightest spec · DIN kerb 1'419 kg) Market & Price ## The price and the proof A terminal for one car: the model curve over the documented record, the benchmarks it is measured against, and the instruments that read it. Records: 7 documented road sales on file · 2020–2026; estimate band $190K–$350K · good road cars. recorded sale prices · mixed hammer and premium-inclusive basis. HCN:720S Live model $257'876 25.9% · 12M 1Y 5Y 10Y MAX +2Y S&P 500 Gold Crises log lin Model curve · anchored to 7 documented sales · benchmarks rebased at window start model v1 · seed mclaren-720s · not investment advice The readouts · model figures against the benchmarks 7 documented anchors · last sale this month Compound annual growth | Window | This car* | S&P 500 | Gold | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1Y | +25.9% | +18.8% | +21.9% | | 5Y | -3.7% | +11.4% | +17.6% | *Modeled price CAGR · S&P is a price index, no dividends Deepest drawdown · model window This car* -41.5% Apr 2024 → Jul 2025 · not recovered S&P 500 -20.3% Dec 2021 → Oct 2022 · recovered Dec 2023 Gold -18.9% Feb 2026 → Jul 2026 · not recovered Forecast ladder · model quantiles | Horizon | P10 | P50 | P90 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | +6M | $233K | $259K | $289K | | +12M | $226K | $261K | $301K | | +24M | $217K | $264K | $322K | Median path with the 10th and 90th percentile · not investment advice Transaction ledger · documented sales Mixed price basis · not estimates All Road LM · Comp Newest first List Distribution Search venue or lot 7 of 7 recorded sales · shown in USD · recorded currency in each record - 2026 · 07 Bring a Trailer · Bring a Trailer · hammer Road $206K - 2026 · 04 Bring a Trailer · Bring a Trailer · hammer Road $227K - 2026 · 03 Bring a Trailer · Bring a Trailer · hammer Road $219K - 2025 · 10 Barrett-Jackson · Scottsdale Fall · incl. buyer's premium Road $228K - 2025 · 07 Bonhams · Goodwood Festival of Speed · incl. buyer's premium Road $205K - 2024 · 06 RM Sotheby's · Toronto · incl. buyer's premium Road $346K - 2020 · 10 RM Sotheby's · Elkhart, Indiana · incl. buyer's premium Road $308K Depreciation from a $288'845 base — often $350'000-plus as optioned — is the defining move; even the 1-of-50 Le Mans holds only a modest premium, with a 1'700-mile example at £161'000 including premium at Goodwood in 2025. Price range · road · open Confidence · medium The 720S trades constantly on the online platforms, so the band is well fed: honest coupés run $190k–$250k, Spiders $220k–$275k, and sub-2'000-mile or MSO-liveried cars reach $300k–$346k. classic.com benchmarks the model near $250k — its published '$610'000 high' is a 720S GT3X track car and is excluded here. Floor $190K Typical $270K Ceiling $350K Estimate band for good road cars. 7 documented sales since 2019 plotted below. $156K $190K $270K $350K $378K Hover the spectrum to read a value, or a dot for the sale behind it. Band and axis shown in USD. Sale positions use indicative fixed-rate conversion to USD; sale readouts retain recorded currencies. Figures in USD for road-going 720S coupés and Spiders including factory editions. The GT3X and other track derivatives are excluded. The wider market · McLaren at auction · median per year · modeled between anchors 108 lots · 2015–2026 · exact yearly anchors · modeled line [Explore all 40,882 results](https://hiconium.com/market#terminal) Instrument calibration for this file is in progress — the terminal above reads the documented record directly. RM Sotheby's and Bonhams figures include buyer's premium; Bring a Trailer figures are winning bids. Guide figures are date-stamped snapshots — classic.com, The Classic Valuer and KBB, August 2026 — not appraisals. Overview ## Woking replaces a family for the first time At Geneva in March 2017 Mike Flewitt called the 720S the first time McLaren had replaced an entire product family. The second-generation Super Series kept the mid-engine carbon recipe of the 650S and rebuilt everything around it: the Monocage II extended the tub into an upper carbon cage, the M840T grew to four litres and 720 PS, and the body's cooling moved inside double-skinned doors. Four hundred Launch Editions sold out before the first car left Woking in April. The Spider followed in December 2018 with a spine-less Monocage II-S and a folding hardtop that cost just 49 kg, and the specials stayed deliberately small: fifteen Apex Collection coupés themed on European circuits in 2019, fifty Le Mans cars in 2020 for the 25th anniversary of the 1995 win. The American magazines, meanwhile, had made the car famous by beating its own numbers — ten-flat quarter miles from a rear-driven V8 that undercut the hybrid holy trinity. Production of the 2023-model-year cars ended in December 2022, and the 750S took over the Super Series in April 2023 — by McLaren's own telling at least thirty per cent new, which is another way of saying seventy per cent 720S. No production total was ever published; the UK registry counts about nine hundred cars, and the market prices the rest of the mystery. ### The sandbag became the story McLaren claimed a 10.3-second quarter mile; Motor Trend ran 10.1 at 141.5 mph and Car and Driver 10.2 at 145 — then the quickest pure-petrol and quickest rear-drive car either had tested. ### Doors that breathe The body sides carry no intake mouths: cooling air runs through the double-skinned dihedral doors into the flanks, which is why the 720S looks unnervingly smooth for a 212-mph car. ### Only the editions are countable McLaren never published a 720S total. The fixed numbers are the 400 sold-out Launch Editions, the 15 Apex Collection coupés and the 50 Le Mans cars built for the 1995 F1 GTR anniversary. ### Depreciation is the buyer's friend A car that stickered near $300'000 — often $350'000-plus optioned — now trades in the low-to-mid $200'000s, with honest coupés under $210'000. Built No total published Bodies Coupé · Spider Editions LE 400 · Apex 15 · Le Mans 50 Design Rob Melville Successor 750S, 2023 Reference ## Technical specifications ### Powertrain Engine M840T twin-turbo V8, 3'994 cc 41 per cent new against the 3.8 M838T; twin-scroll turbos with electric wastegates, 8'500 rpm redline Output 720 PS / 710 bhp at 7'500 rpm the badge is the metric figure; 770 Nm at 5'500 rpm Gearbox 7-speed SSG dual-clutch rear-drive through an open differential with Brake Steer — McLaren chose software over a limited-slip's mass Performance 0–200 km/h in 7.8 s factory; Motor Trend's 10.1-second quarter beat the factory claim and the Bugatti Veyron's 10.4 ### Structure and aero Monocage II Carbon tub with upper structure the windscreen surround and cage go carbon where the 650S kept aluminium; Spider's Monocage II-S deletes the roof spine Weight 1'283–1'419 kg lightest dry to DIN kerb; magazines weighed about 1'434 kg as tested — the ladder matters more than one number Doors Double-skin dihedral the body sides have no radiator mouths — cooling air travels through the door skins instead Aero Active wing and airbrake full airbrake in about half a second; aerodynamic efficiency more than double the 650S Suspension Proactive Chassis Control II hydraulically interconnected dampers, no anti-roll bars — plus Variable Drift Control for the brave Brakes Carbon-ceramic, 390/380 mm 200–0 km/h in 117 m on the launch sheet The records 0s Quarter mile Motor Trend 2018 · quicker than a Veyron 0km/h Top speed 212 mph 0 Launch Editions sold out before production 0 Le Mans cars chassis serials in the 298xxx range HICON BID ## Buying interest, silently. A HICON Bid is a confidential expression of buying interest on the McLaren 720S file — never public, never shown to other members. It is not a binding purchase, and HICONIUM holds no funds. [Sign in](https://hiconium.com/sign-in) HICON Bids are a member instrument. Sign in to place one. The vault ## Open a file on yours. You keep one? The record starts in your garage — identity, papers, photography, and the market evidence this file already carries, bound to your chassis. [Sign in to open a file](https://hiconium.com/sign-in) [How membership works](https://hiconium.com/membership) The variants ## One badge, 4 executions The register separates the 720S into its documented executions. One reference silhouette per execution — each opens as its own file as the archive fills. ![McLaren 720S Coupé — reference silhouette](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/catalog/mclaren-720s.png.w1920.q75.webp) Coupé 01 Reference in preparation Spider 02 Reference in preparation Le Mans 03 Reference in preparation Apex Collection 04 4 executions on file · references drawn to the house standard The hands ## The people behind the car The people whose work shaped the McLaren 720S. No free period portrait on record #### [Rob Melville](https://hiconium.com/people/rob-melville) Chief designer Led the 720S design — his first Super Series as lead — and was made design director two months after the reveal; the door-duct flanks and canopy glasshouse are his signature. No free period portrait on record #### Mark Vinnels Executive director, product development Carried programme continuity from the 12C through the 720S, including the folding driver display and the Monocage II step. No free period portrait on record #### Mike Flewitt Chief executive Framed the 720S as McLaren's first full family replacement and priced it squarely against Maranello's mid-engine V8.