Rob Corddry

Rob Corddry Instagram – A McLaren 600LT loaner was dropped off on the set of The Unicorn over a year ago. My Top Gear America cohost Jethro Bovingdon used his ties at McLaren to throw me the bone, registering my frustration over having been on TGA for a month without being gifted that fabled “weekend loaner”.
If you haven’t seen the Unicorn (shame on you—I guess you hate to laugh?) the cast aren’t exactly “McLaren Types”, excluding Omar Benson Miller who just smiled and nodded, knowingly. The others reacted like I had been delivered a space ship which it may as well have been.
I have only scribbled notes a year old to guide me (one reads “Ow”) but I remember dying for the shooting day to be over so I could blast up the 5 and slide into my driveway sideways with a sweet handbrake maneuver I can only execute in my imagination.
But it was not to be. No one blasts up the 5 at 6pm. Into my second hour of crawling I probably wrote “Ow”. The 600LT is the peak of McLaren’s Sport Series and a track focused car with fixed racing seats. Perfect for canyon carving, imperfect in a river of brake lights. I managed to have a ton of fun in this car though. Later that night, I drove my kids and friends around the block leaving them thinking, rightly, that I was Ironman.
Day 2: Determined to make fire shoot out of its top exit… exhaust? Engine tubes? Fire-pipes? Who cares… short answer: this car spits fire. And on a canyon road there is nothing like punching the gas, waiting the glorious fraction of a second of lag before you feel the car sink down into the road and disappear with a whistle of turbo. The afternoon was literally a blur. A note written later reads only “handling!!!”. I’m a terrible note-taker. But nothing I’ve driven compares to the perfect balance this car achieves. I think I was referring to McLaren’s engineers when I wrote “Who the fuck are these people?!”
The 600LT was my first supercar and I’m still thinking about it. I can’t imagine a car braking and steering with the ease of the 600LT. When I die, this will be the car that ruined cars for me, my constant refrain being “Awesome, but it’s no 600LT” | Posted on 02/Apr/2021 05:59:26