2019 McLaren 600LT

Make

McLaren

Model

600LT

Year

2019

Listed price

$259,995

Location

Akron, Ohio

Transmission

7-Speed Automatic

Mileage

8,587 miles

Perfect Auto Collection Signature Listing 2019 McLaren 600LT VIN SBM13RAA4KW006799 | 8,587 miles Longtail is the rarest badge McLaren issues. This one left Woking as an MSO Defined car and was optioned $64,820 past its base price. Why We Acquired This Vehicle McLaren has applied the Longtail name three times in its history. The first was the F1 GTR Longtail of 1997, built to win at Le Mans. The second was the 675LT. The third is this car. LT is not a trim package - it is a defined engineering program that demands more power, more downforce, sharper responses, and above all less weight than the car it is derived from. The 600LT sheds nearly 220 pounds against the 570S, routes its exhaust vertically through the engine cover, and was built in strictly limited numbers before the line closed. This example arrived with its original window sticker, so its specification is documented rather than assumed - and the document is remarkable. Against a $240,000 base, it was delivered at $304,820, nearly $65,000 in added specification. What makes it unusual is where that money went: the overwhelming majority of it was spent on carbon fiber and on work commissioned through McLaren Special Operations, the division that handles bespoke orders at Woking. This is not a car that was optioned for comfort. It was optioned in the same direction the LT program itself points. The verified appointments are detailed in full below. It is finished in MSO Papaya Spark over a Carbon Black interior. Papaya is the color Bruce McLaren raced in, and specifying it through MSO on a Longtail is about as coherent a decision as an owner of one of these cars can make. At 8,587 miles it has been exercised rather than stored, which is the correct history for a car with a dry-sump twin-turbo V8 and carbon ceramic brakes. At a Glance Highlights MSO Exterior Paint - Papaya Spark MSO Defined Carbon Fiber Roof Carbon Fiber Exterior Upgrade 3 - MSO Defined Carbon Fiber Exterior Upgrade 2 Carbon Fiber Exterior Upgrade 1 Carbon Fiber Interior Upgrade Carbon Fiber Sill Finisher Carbon Fiber Plenum Racing Seats - Touring Size Interior Trim by McLaren - Alcantara LT Carbon Black Alcantara Steering Wheel with McLaren Orange 12 O'Clock Marker Carbon Black Alcantara Headliner MSO Defined McLaren Orange Seatbelts McLaren Orange Ignition Key 10-Spoke Ultra Lightweight Wheels - Diamond Cut Pirelli P Zero Trofeo R Tires Ceramic Brakes with Orange Calipers and Machined Logo Nose Lift Soft Close Doors Parking Sensors with Rear Parking Camera McLaren Track Telemetry Exterior: MSO Papaya Spark | Interior: Carbon Black 8,587 miles 3.8-Liter Twin-Turbocharged V8 7-Speed Seamless Shift Dual-Clutch Gearbox Rear-Wheel Drive Original MSRP as Delivered: $304,820 SBM13RAA4KW006799 + Additional Factory Options & Features - see the complete equipment list for the full specification The Perfect Auto Collection Experience Personalized Video Walkarounds Independent Third-Party Inspections Welcome Nationwide Enclosed Transportation Boutique, Appointment-Level Service Transparent Representation From Start to Finish Our Perspective At Perfect Auto Collection, we do not measure a vehicle by its badge alone. We ask a quieter question: how does it present, and would we be proud to place it in our own collection? This 600LT is one of the more convincing cars we have handled, because the sticker and the car agree with each other. On paper it is a $304,820 build in which almost every dollar above base went toward the two things this model exists for - lightweight structure and bespoke execution through McLaren Special Operations. In person the orange is startling in daylight and the exposed weave across the body reads as engineering rather than decoration. It is a coherent, uncompromised specification of a car that was itself uncompromised, and we would put our name against it without hesitation. Why Enthusiasts Value This Model The Longtail designation is the reason. McLaren guards it, and each car that has carried it has been a limited-production, track-oriented interpretation of an existing model - more power, more downforce, less mass, and a production run that closes rather than continues. The 600LT was built for a defined window and then stopped, which is the pattern for every LT McLaren has made. The engineering is genuinely different from the car underneath it. The top-exit exhaust is not styling - routing the pipes vertically through the engine cover shortens them, saves weight, and puts the sound directly behind the driver's head. The bodywork is extended front and rear to generate real downforce, the track is wider, the suspension is stiffer and lower, and everything from the seats to the brake components was examined for grams. All of it sits on the carbon fiber MonoCell II tub McLaren builds every one of its cars around, which is why an LT can be made this rigid while being this light. What informed buyers look for is specific: a car with genuine carbon content rather than a lightly optioned one, MSO involvement in the original order, documentation proving how it left Woking, and mileage that shows it has been used and maintained rather than left standing. Those are the examples worth seeking out, because with a limited-production McLaren the original specification is what separates a listing that claims a car is special from one that can show it. Factory and Vehicle Highlights MSO Exterior Paint - Papaya Spark The car wears MSO Papaya Spark, a $7,430 paint commissioned through McLaren Special Operations rather than selected from the standard palette. Why it matters: Papaya is the color Bruce McLaren's cars raced in from 1968, and it is the closest thing the company has to a heritage livery. Spark is the modern, more luminous interpretation of it, and on a Longtail the choice reads as a deliberate reference rather than a color preference - it is the specification a McLaren enthusiast orders and a casual buyer does not. MSO Defined Carbon Fiber Roof The roof panel is MSO Defined carbon fiber, a $13,300 option and the single most expensive line on this window sticker. Why it matters: A carbon roof removes mass from the highest point on the car, which lowers the center of gravity more effectively than saving the same weight anywhere else. That is the reason McLaren charges this much for one panel, and it is the clearest possible signal that the original owner was buying the LT program rather than just the badge. Carbon Fiber Exterior Upgrade 3 - MSO Defined The third tier of exterior carbon, an MSO Defined specification at $10,320. Why it matters: MSO Defined means the components were specified through McLaren Special Operations, the division that handles bespoke and limited work at Woking, rather than ordered from the standard catalog. At more than ten thousand dollars this tier is the point where the exterior carbon stops being an option box and becomes a commissioning conversation. Carbon Fiber Exterior Upgrade 2 The second tier of exterior carbon fiber components, a $6,920 option. Why it matters: Against Papaya Spark, exposed weave is doing visual work as well as structural work - the dark carbon breaks up a very bright body and gives the LT's extended aerodynamic surfaces definition they would lose if everything were painted a single orange. This is the tier that puts that contrast onto the largest visible areas. Carbon Fiber Exterior Upgrade 1 The first tier of exterior carbon fiber components, a $3,930 option. Why it matters: Carrying all three exterior carbon tiers is what separates this car from a typical 600LT, and this is the foundation of that stack. Each carbon panel replaces a painted composite one, so the benefit compounds - the car is lighter for every one of them, which is the entire premise of a Longtail. Carbon Fiber Interior Upgrade The interior carbon fiber upgrade, a $6,680 option, carries exposed weave through the cabin components. Why it matters: McLaren leaves the tub structure visible where other manufacturers cover it, and the interior carbon extends that honesty to the surfaces around it. In a cabin stripped of sound insulation and carpet in the name of weight, structural material on display is the correct finish - there is nothing here pretending to be something else. Carbon Fiber Sill Finisher The door sill finishers are carbon fiber, a $2,270 option. Why it matters: The MonoCell II tub has a tall, wide sill that every occupant has to cross to get in, and it is the component that takes the most physical abuse over a car's life. Finishing it in carbon protects the edge of the tub and puts the car's defining structural material directly under the hand of anyone climbing in through the dihedral doors. Carbon Fiber Plenum The engine plenum is finished in carbon fiber, a $710 option. Why it matters: The plenum sits under the glass engine cover where it is on permanent display, so this is one of the few options on the sheet that exists purely for the person looking into the engine bay. On a car whose whole identity is carbon construction, leaving the most visible induction component in plain composite would have been the odd choice. Racing Seats - Touring Size The car is fitted with McLaren's carbon-shelled racing seats in the touring size. Why it matters: These are the seats from the Senna program, and they weigh a fraction of a conventional powered seat - a significant part of the LT's weight saving comes from them. The touring size is the wider of the two shells offered, which makes them usable on a long drive rather than only on a track day, and it is the more sensible specification for a road-registered car. Interior Trim by McLaren - Alcantara LT The cabin is trimmed in McLaren's Alcantara LT specification, a $3,630 option. Why it matters: Alcantara is lighter than leather and grips rather than slides, which matters in a car that generates this much lateral load and has seats without powered adjustment. The LT trim specification is the treatment developed for this program specifically, so the interior matches the badge on the car rather than being borrowed from the model below. Carbon Black Alcantara Steering Wheel with McLaren Orange 12 O'Clock Marker The steering wheel is trimmed in Carbon Black Alcantara with a McLaren Orange marker at twelve o'clock. Why it matters: The center marker is a racing convention: at speed or in a slide, a driver needs to know where straight-ahead is without looking. Matching that stripe to the exterior paint is the detail that ties the cockpit to the car around it, and it is the kind of thing that only gets specified by someone who has thought about driving the car hard. Carbon Black Alcantara Headliner The headliner is finished in Carbon Black Alcantara. Why it matters: The headliner is the largest single soft surface in the cabin, and Alcantara there is both lighter than a conventional lined headliner and far less reflective - which matters in a low car with a steeply raked windshield where glare off the roof lining reaches the driver's eyeline. MSO Defined McLaren Orange Seatbelts The seatbelts are MSO Defined in McLaren Orange, a $360 option. Why it matters: Colored belts are one of the few ways to bring the exterior color into a dark cabin without adding weight, and running them through MSO rather than a catalog option is what allows the shade to match the paint properly. In an all-black interior they are the first thing the eye lands on. McLaren Orange Ignition Key The ignition key is finished in McLaren Orange, a $490 option. Why it matters: It is the last piece of the car an owner touches when they walk away from it and the first when they come back. Specifying it to match the paint is a small, unnecessary, entirely deliberate act - which is precisely the kind of detail that tells you how the rest of this order sheet was approached. 10-Spoke Ultra Lightweight Wheels - Diamond Cut The car rides on 10-spoke ultra lightweight forged wheels in a diamond cut finish, a $1,880 option. Why it matters: Unsprung weight is the most valuable weight to remove from any car, because the suspension has to control it over every bump - McLaren's ultra lightweight forged wheels are among the lightest offered on any road car. The diamond cut finish leaves the machined face bright against the darker spoke recesses, which gives the wheel definition behind the orange calipers. Pirelli P Zero Trofeo R Tires The car is fitted with Pirelli P Zero Trofeo R tires, the standard fitment for this model. Why it matters: Trofeo R is a road-legal tire developed for track use, with a shallow tread pattern and a compound that needs heat before it delivers its enormous grip. McLaren specified it because the 600LT's chassis was calibrated around it - fitting a conventional performance tire changes how the car behaves at the limit, so a buyer should treat these as part of the vehicle rather than a consumable choice. Ceramic Brakes with Orange Calipers and Machined Logo The carbon ceramic brake system carries orange calipers with a machined McLaren logo, a $1,110 option. Why it matters: Behind ten open spokes the caliper is on full display, and matching it to Papaya Spark completes the car's single color idea from the paint through to the wheels. The ceramic system underneath resists the fade that would defeat iron discs on the track days this car was built for, and it saves significant unsprung mass at each corner. Nose Lift The hydraulic nose lift system, a $1,560 option, raises the front of the car to clear obstacles. Why it matters: The 600LT carries an extended front splitter very close to the ground, and without this system the car cannot clear an ordinary driveway apron or a parking ramp without damage. On a car with this much carbon fiber at the front, it is the single most valuable option on the sheet for anyone who intends to drive it on real roads. Soft Close Doors Soft close doors, a $760 option, draw the doors fully shut from ajar. Why it matters: The dihedral doors on a McLaren are large, hinged unconventionally, and heavy enough that closing one from inside takes a deliberate pull. Soft close removes that awkwardness entirely, which on a car with carbon sills and a wide tub to climb over is a meaningful improvement to the least graceful moment of ownership. Parking Sensors with Rear Parking Camera Front and rear parking sensors are fitted along with a rear parking camera. Why it matters: Visibility rearward from a mid-engined car with this roofline is genuinely poor, and the carbon bodywork at both ends is expensive to repair and impossible to touch up. The camera and sensors are the practical protection for the most costly surfaces on the vehicle. McLaren Track Telemetry The car is equipped with McLaren Track Telemetry in its app-based form. Why it matters: The system records lap times and driving data for later review, which is how the LT program expects the car to be used. Its presence is a small piece of evidence about the original order: this was specified as a car to be driven on circuit, not only displayed. 3.8-Liter Twin-Turbocharged V8 The 600LT is powered by McLaren's M838T 3.8-liter twin-turbocharged V8, an all-aluminum, dry-sump engine mounted behind the cabin and producing 592 horsepower and 457 lb-ft of torque. Why it matters: The LT calibration lifts output above the 570S while the program removes weight from around it, which is why the power-to-weight figure rather than the horsepower number is the point of this car. Dry-sump lubrication keeps oil supplied to the engine under sustained cornering loads that would starve a conventional wet sump - a direct consequence of McLaren engineering road cars the way it engineers racing ones. 7-Speed Seamless Shift Dual-Clutch Gearbox Drive goes through McLaren's seven-speed Seamless Shift dual-clutch gearbox, with Normal, Sport, and Track powertrain modes. Why it matters: The Seamless Shift system pre-selects the next ratio so the change happens without a break in drive, and in Track mode it introduces a deliberate ignition cut on upshift that produces an audible crack from the top-exit pipes. It is one of the few gearboxes that manages to be genuinely fast and genuinely theatrical at the same time. Rear-Wheel Drive Power is delivered exclusively to the rear wheels, through an open differential with brake steer. Why it matters: McLaren has never built an all-wheel-drive road car, because driven front wheels add mass and corrupt the steering feel the company treats as non-negotiable. Brake steer, a technique McLaren developed in Formula One, applies the inside rear brake to help rotate the car into a corner - it does the work a mechanical limited-slip differential would, without the weight. Behind the Wheel The 600LT does not ease a driver into anything. The steering is hydraulically assisted rather than electric, which almost nothing else at this price still offers, and the amount of information it sends back through the rim is the first thing that separates this car from its competition. The nose responds instantly, the car is light enough to change direction without any sense of mass being moved, and the front end simply grips. Then there is the noise. The exhaust exits vertically through the engine cover, inches behind the cabin bulkhead, so the sound arrives at the back of the driver's head rather than trailing behind the car. In Track mode the upshifts crack, and the whole experience is louder, harder, and more immediate than the standard car it is based on - which is exactly what the Longtail program set out to do. The cabin is stripped in the way a serious car should be: fixed-back carbon shells, Alcantara everywhere, structure on display rather than hidden. It is not uncomfortable, but nothing in it is asking to be admired. For the right owner, this is not simply a fast McLaren. It is the third car ever to carry the Longtail name, specified through MSO in the color the company built its reputation racing. Preparation and Buying Confidence Before presentation, each vehicle is evaluated for cosmetic condition, mechanical integrity, and the ownership experience it is prepared to deliver. 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