McLaren 720S Production Ends, Successor Already Sold Out For 2024 Too

The McLaren 720S has reached the end of its life cycle and the British supercar marque has reportedly ended its production just recently, thus closing a five-year long chapter on the road. As for its successor, it hasn’t only been confirmed, it’s also reportedly all sold out for 2024 as well.

This was confirmed by McLaren President Of The Americas Nicolas Brown in a recent interview with Automotive News. Regarding the 720S model’s successor, Brown says that customers have already placed deposits with dealers despite McLaren having not released any details about it just yet.

"[Customers are] anticipating that it will be a refinement of the 720S. They understand that it's not a next-generation, all-new, ground-up vehicle,” added Brown in a recent interview. This is indeed bad news for prospecting buyers, meaning they’ll have to wait until 2025 at least to order theirs.

No details are available about the model replacing the McLaren 720S, and it also remains unclear if the British marque’s recent partnership with the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works division has anything to do with it either.

To refresh your memory, the McLaren 720S debuted and went into production starting from 2017. It stood as the second all-new car in the McLaren Super Series line up where it succeeded the 650S model that preceded it.

Like the 650S, the 720S underpinned a similar carbon monocoque chassis platform and packed the British firm’s signature M840 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 mill shod in the middle, delivering 710 HP (or 720PS, hence its name) and 770 NM.

Said outputs were managed by McLaren’s very own 7-speed SSG transmission to the rear wheels, thus allowing this supercar to despatch 0-100 KM/H in an incredible 2.8 seconds before maxing out at 341 KM/H.

With the 720S now out of production, it does provide space for the McLaren Artura plug-in hybrid (PHEV) supercar to take up its mantle until the 720S model’s eventual and still unnamed successor debuts.

Partially-electrified, the Artura harnesses a 3.0-litre twin-turbo V6 instead plus an axial flux electric motor and 7.4 kWh lithium ion battery pack, thus allowing the package to deliver combined outputs of 671 HP and 719 NM.

In terms of performance, the Artura closely matches the 720S with a 0-100 KM/H sprint time of 2.9 seconds and V-max of 330 KM/H. It also places it directly against its Italian-made rival the Ferrari 296 GTB which we got to sample on-track not too long ago.