McLaren's rarest ever car took over a month just to paint

McLaren’s rarest ever car, the GTR LM, took over a month just to paint.

The McLaren Senna GTR LM is a set of five customer-commissioned cars.

Designed as a homage to one of the five McLaren F1 GTRs that competed in the 1995 Le Mans race, these cars were a huge investment of time.

When it came to painting these cars, it took McLaren Special Operations at least 800 hours on each one.

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It took over a month to paint McLaren’s rarest car

Each of the five GTR LMs was designed in tribute to one of the five McLaren F1 GTRs that finished the 1995 Le Mans race.

That’s one for first place, third place, fourth place, fifth place, and thirteenth place.

A remarkable result by any stretch – so it was worth celebrating, right?

The five cars produced needed at least 800 hours to paint, with some needing even more time than that.

For those keeping track at home, there are only 730 hours in a month.

So that’s well over a month spent painting these cars.

A lot of extensive work was also carried out on the inner workings of the cars.

Thanks to a recalibration of the electronics, the cars were given a horsepower increase of 20, boosting them up to 833, HotCars reported.

In order to do up the LMs, McLaren had to seek permission from brand owners like Gulf or Harrods to recreate the logos on top of each car.

Could you buy a McLaren Senna GTR LM?

The GTR was almost $1.8 million new, so the LM would obviously cost more than that.

The Harrods LM went up for sale in London in 2024, but didn’t sell.

Five years ago, the asking price was somewhere between $2,160,700 and $2,700,920.

We’ve seen rare McLarens go for high amounts before – like this McLaren Senna XP, which sold for more than $1 million over on SBX Cars.

There’s just something about McLarens that carries a certain level of prestige.

Seeing a McLaren Senna being lifted up into a multimillionaire’s penthouse might have something to do with it.

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