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McLaren Automotive has celebrated a milestone this week, with its 20,000th car rolling down the production line at its plant in Woking, UK. The commemorative vehicle was a right-hand drive McLaren 600LT Spider (pictured), finished in Chicane Grey. It's been eight years since the first McLaren Automotive model – an MP4-12C – was produced in July 2011, with the company recording an annual output of "just over" 4800 units in 2018.

The new McLaren 600LT is the pinnacle of performance for the marque's 'entry-level' Sports Series family, so how does it compare to its bigger brother – the 720S? In a new video posted to YouTube, Hennessey Performance lines up a 600LT against a 720S for an old-school drag race. We've seen numerous videos where the 720S comfortably out-sprints more expensive supercars and hypercars, so how does the smaller 600LT fare?

McLaren Automotive has launched its lightweight track-focussed 600LT into the Australian market, with a starting price of $455,000 plus on-road costs. The McLaren 600LT, the first in the Sports Series range to wear the ‘LT’ badge, will hit our shores in late 2018, with a McLaren spokesperson confirming several Australian customers had already placed orders.

The McLaren 570GT MSO Cabbeen Collection has been unveiled for the Beijing motor show, sporting unique appointments tailored for Chinese tastes. Designed in collaboration with Chinese fashion designer, Mr. Cabbeen, the bespoke McLaren 570GT by McLaren Special Operations (MSO) is limited to just five units, and sports a unique black/gold colour scheme.

McLaren has confirmed a raft of updates to its Sports Series range designed to beef up its Coupe and GT models to align them closer to the recently-launched 570S Spider. The biggest winner is the McLaren 570GT, scoring carbon-ceramic brakes as standard, while an optional Sport Pack, which alters the dynamic setting of the grand tourer, is available for the first time.