McLaren ended production of the 720S and moved on to the 750S — and in doing so froze the supply of one of the most complete supercars of its generation. Here is why enthusiasts rate the 720S so highly, what going out of production does to a car like this, and where one is still bookable in Sydney.
The enthusiast's supercar, frozen in time.
Why the 720S earned its reputation
When the 720S arrived it embarrassed cars costing twice as much: a 710-horsepower twin-turbo V8 in a full carbon tub, so light and so aerodynamically clever that road testers reached for hypercar comparisons. The dihedral doors hinge up and forward from the windscreen pillar — an entrance mechanism as theatrical as any scissor door — and the glazed canopy makes the cabin feel like a jet. It never had the badge romance of Maranello or Sant’Agata, which is exactly why the people who chose one tended to be the ones who had done their homework.
What happens when a supercar is discontinued
Three things, usually. The steep early depreciation flattens, because no new examples arrive to undercut the used ones. The best cars start migrating into careful hands. And the model's identity settles — the 720S is no longer “the current McLaren” but a fixed point: the generation that made the marque's reputation for usable, devastating speed. The 750S that replaced it is measurably better on paper and visibly similar in person; the 720S is the original of the shape.
Built like nothing else in the class
What set the 720S apart was not the headline power but how it was made. McLaren is the only marque in the class that builds every car around a carbon-fibre monocoque — racing-car construction where its rivals use aluminium — and the 720S wore the lightest, stiffest version of it yet. That is why testers kept recording numbers the spec sheet said were impossible, and why the car feels a class exotic lighter than it looks. When people call it the thinking person's supercar, the tub is what they are talking about.
Where one still takes bookings
The G Class Hire McLaren 720S remains in the Sydney fleet, chauffeur-driven, and it fills a distinct role in the supercar range: the futuristic one. For a school formal it reads as the coolest car in the convoy; for a corporate reveal or product launch it says engineering rather than excess; for a shoot the canopy and doors give angles no other car in the fleet offers. It pairs beautifully with the GT3 RS for a two-car set with genuine motorsport flavour.
The practical takeaway
You can no longer order a new 720S, and the used ones are settling into collections — but the experience is a booking, not a hunt. Doors up at the kerb, chauffeur at the wheel, cameras out. Check your date before formal season fills the diary.
