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The open-cockpit Elva
replaces the Group
7 racer’s roll bar with
buttresses and adds
Intake an optional windshield
and other niceties.
McLaren Elva FIRST LOOK
he million-plus-dollar
roadster club just got
Tits newest member: the
McLaren Elva. Named after
the McLaren-Elva sports cars
designed by Bruce McLaren and chassis, special carbon-
himself in the 1960s, the fiber seats, and sintered is located on one side of the in less than 3 seconds and
new Elva will be a two-seat, carbon-ceramic brakes. instrument binnacle that accelerate to 124 mph quicker
open-top hypercar powered Parts of the bodywork flow controls drive modes. than a Senna—and land you
by a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V-8 into the cabin to accentuate The V-8 motivating the Elva in jail very shortly thereafter.
similar to the one found in the the connection between the packs 804 hp—up 15 hp from Just 399 Elvas will be built,
Senna. McLaren says the Elva driver and the elements. The the Senna—and has no hybrid and surprisingly not all of
is the lightest road car it’s ever drive controls are located near batteries or electric motors them are spoken for yet—
designed thanks in part to a the gauge cluster, not in the of any kind. McLaren says the so act while you still can!
bespoke carbon-fiber body center stack. A rotary control Elva will get from 0 to 60 mph Nick Yekikian
Ferrari Roma
errari just took the wraps The Roma’s design is infotainment screen. same in both the Roma and
off of its newest GT, called a departure from recent The Roma is powered by Portofino. The Roma adopts
Fthe Roma. Ferrari is Ferraris. It brings back classic a derivative of the 3.9-liter the eight-speed twin-clutch
calling it a “2+ coupé,” and we design cues like front wheel twin-turbo V-8 from the automatic that was intro-
assume that means it’ll have arches that peak above the now-defunct 488 GTB. Here, duced in the SF90.
room for four, though perhaps top of the hood but adds a it makes 611 hp from 5,750 No word on price yet,
not comfortably without the pointier front end and rear to 7,500 rpm and 560 lb-ft of but we expect the Roma to
proper shooting brake design glass that’s more steeply torque at 5,750 rpm. Ferrari cost a bit north of $225,000,
of the GTC4Lusso and the FF raked than the 612’s. On the nerds will notice this is putting it up against cars
before it. Think of the Roma inside the Roma borrows less power and torque than like the McLaren GT, the
as the newer, better-looking the steering wheel from the the 488, but slightly more upcoming Porsche 911
612 Scaglietti—only smaller SF90 Stradale and has what power than the entry-level Turbo, and the Aston Martin
and cheaper. looks like an up-to-date Portofino; torque stays the DB11. Nick Yekikian
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