While most of us dream of owning a supercar, the people who can actually afford to make that dream a reality for themselves dream of making their car stand out from the hundreds of similar machines cruising around each of the world’s big cities.
McLaren Special Operations, the Brit supercar company’s in-house bespoke personalization service, has come up with one striking way to meet its customers’ desires to be different, but it’s the kind of thing that would bring your average accident repair shop out in a cold sweat.
Called Spectrum Theme and available only on the brand’s new 750S, the facelifted version of the old 720S, the segmented paint option shifts the color tone from light to dark via a series of stripes on the dihedral doors. McLaren says achieving the seven-shade finish required its paint pros to develop all-new paint colors and mixes for every segment. And that final, seventh segment covering the rear half of the car isn’t a nice easy job for the MSO paint shop to bash out after doing the tricky stuff, in case you were wondering. It also changes tone.
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Spectrum Theme cars can also have their colorways combined with other MSO options that might include vivid leather trim, a dedication plaque and extended visual carbon fibre door sills featuring hand-painted Spectrum graded effect MSO logos. Customers can additionally have the underside of the 750’s active spoiler picked out in a contrasting color.
McLaren has only shown us images of the 750S paint in Spectrum Blue, but you can also order Spectrum Orange and Spectrum Grey, and MSO says that’s just the beginning. If you’ve got your own ideas for a different color design along a similar theme the MSO team will paint your car in other hues using the same treatment. Whatever color you go for you want to hope you don’t get your door scraped in a parking lot because we doubt most bodyshops would be keen on trying to replicate the pattern.
