Watch the McLaren 650S Spider Debut at the Geneva Motor Show

( ) The McLaren 650S Spider dropped it's top at the Geneva Motor Show today. As with the MP4-12C Spider with which it shares a platform, the 650S Spider features a retractable hardtop that effectively makes it a coupe with the roof fitted. The roof takes 17 seconds to raise, a task that can be accomplished at speeds up to 19 mph. McLaren says the car's carbon fiber MonoCell chassis did not require any additional strengthening, despite the removal of the roof. The 650S Spider comes equipped with the coupe's lightweight alloy wheels, Pirelli P Zero Corsa tires, and carbon ceramic brakes. Also unchanged is the 12C-derived 3.8-liter twin-turbocharged V-8, which produces the same 641 horsepower and 500 pound-feet of torque it does in the 650S hardtop. That allows the 650S Spider to do 0-100 km/h in 3.0 seconds, 0-200 km/h in 8.6 seconds, and reach a top speed of 328km/h mph. McLaren says the 650S Spider will also return the same 24.2mpg on the European combined cycle as the coupe. That number will be significantly lower in U.S. EPA testing, though.

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