Detailed Photos of the 2019 McLaren Senna Supercar

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December 31, 2018 at 11:31 AM

<p>It seems like Conversations in restaurants and bars are becoming impossible. Unless the person across the table speaks with the forcefulness of a stage actor, it's hopeless. It seems rude to repeatedly ask someone to repeat themselves, so a polite nod replaces actual interaction. Did she just say that she once got so high, she signed up for LifeLock? Maybe she said she's ordering the gravlax. They have gravlax here?</p>

<p>There's zero problem hearing the <a rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://www.caranddriver.com/mclaren/senna" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:McLaren Senna;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">McLaren Senna</a>, which may explain our encroaching deafness.</p>

The 2019 McLaren Senna Assaults All Your Senses—But Mostly Your Hearing

<p>We measured 102 decibels' worth at wide-open throttle, the highest number we can recall.</p>

<p>More than a few minutes in a Senna will make dinner that night a conversational minefield.</p>

<p>Tucked into the unlined carbon-fiber tub and belted into the one-piece racing seat, you realize that you are the sound deadening.</p>

<p>The launch-control system holds the engine at 3000 rpm and tells you when to release the brake. Forget SpaceX; a check for $964,966 can make you an astronaut today.</p>

How Will the Aston Martin AM-RB 003 Measure Up to the McLaren Senna?

<p>Some basic training is required. For example, getting out requires that you pull the door handle in the roof.</p>

<p>Instead of windows that open in a useful way, you can get glass in the bottom half of the door panel that provides a view of Earth as you approach what surely must be escape velocity.</p>

<p>McLaren puts the window switches up there, too, but the mail-slot side windows are more Countach than anything we've seen in 30 years.</p>

<p>Between the door handles is a button marked Race that takes an already focused car and drops the suspension 1.5 inches in front, 1.2 in back, and switches the dampers to their most aggressive setting.</p>

<p>The brake rotors are a new material that's somewhere between the carbon-ceramic discs found on many current high-performance vehicles and the carbon-carbon units fitted to purebred race cars.</p>

<p>As the car drops, the active aero slats in the front and the giant wing in back set up for maximum downforce, which measures 1764 pounds at 155 mph.</p>

<p>Once downforce starts to pile up, there's way more available on-track than the 1.12 g's we registered on the relatively low-speed skidpad.</p>

It seems like Conversations in restaurants and bars are becoming impossible. Unless the person across the table speaks with the forcefulness of a stage actor, it's hopeless. It seems rude to repeatedly ask someone to repeat themselves, so a polite nod replaces actual interaction. Did she just say that she once got so high, she signed up for LifeLock? Maybe she said she's ordering the gravlax. They have gravlax here?

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The Senna is part Le Mans prototype and part prehistoric shark.

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