Everything you need to know about the McLaren 570GT

This McLaren 570GT is a car you should have met already. It forms the third rung in Woking carmaker's ‘Sports Series’ range.

It is then, a stablemate for the 570S Coupe and 540C Coupe, and the second of three body shapes that will “complete the family”. The 570GT is supposed to be the most luxurious of the three supercars, targeting performance and the ability to journey slightly further than your nearby racetrack.

At £154,000, it also costs the most. But there are plenty of reasons why. Here are the tweaks McLaren has made...

It shares the same basic setup with the 570S Coupe – adaptive dampers with Normal, Sport and Track settings – but here everything has been fractionally recalibrated for comfort.

So the front and rear anti-roll bars have been set up to ride better over poorer surfaces (so most of our roads, then), while the springs have reduced spring rates too – 15 per cent less on the front, 10 per cent less on the rear.

The steering meanwhile, has a marginally reduced ratio to make cruising a little easier.

We’re told it’s less noisy than the 570S Coupe, and comes with lots of leather, soft-close doors, heated electric seats, a combined 350-litre boot volume and, like the P1, a glass roof, which makes the cabin feel considerably airier. It's also got an 18 per cent transmission tint, you might like to know.

Two boots now: the front one under the nose, and then another below the rear glass.

That one opens sideways. From the left if you have a right hand drive car, and vice versa for a left hooker. Typical McLaren attention to detail...

The space beneath totals 220 litres if you're prepared to forfeit all rear vision, and we can't help but think it's a missed opportunity that the hatch can't be opened from both sides. Surely some sort of clever hinge isn't beyond the realms of possibility for McLaren?

It uses the same 3.8-litre twin-turbo V8 as the 570S, here developing the same 562bhp and 443lb ft of torque. 0-62mph then, takes 3.4seconds – two tenths down on the 570S and a tenth up on the 540C – with a top speed of 204mph.

That slight decrease in the 0-62mph time is likely down to the 570GT’s additional kerbweight over the 570S – 1,350kg versus 1,313kg. Because luxury.

Still, it’s got a seven-speed gearbox, will do 0-124mph in 9.8secs, hit a quarter mile in 11.1secs. It also gets lightweight iron brake discs over aluminium hubs, compared to the carbon ceramics the 570S gets.

There is a new rear spoiler, here 10mm higher than the other Coupes, and features a more “upwards and forwards opening arc” for the doors, with lower, narrower sills. Easier to get into that more sumptuous cabin.

We're told the new 570GT is the most luxurious and relaxing of any McLaren supercar ever built. Looks good from here.

There are new 15-spoke GT alloys, measuring 19in up front, and 20in at the back, shod in Pirelli P ZeroTM tyres as standard.

At £154,000, it’s just over £10k dearer than the 570S, with first deliveries commencing later this year. And you'll be able to have a poke around it next week, if you happen to be in London.

That's because the 570GT is appearing at the newly relaunched London motor show. Want to take a closer look at it? Be at Battersea Evolution between the 5th and the 8th of May.