“This is how you get in the car,” the presenter says, and then shows it: “One step on the body of the car.” There is no conventional door on a McLaren Solus GT. “This is your door,” the presenter says, and calls the whole thing “freaking cool.”

The video was posted on September 3, 2026, by @supercarblondie.xtra, which goes by SB Xtra and tags the post #supercarblondie. It is a media channel’s showcase rather than an owner’s video: the caption says “We went to LA to unbox the McLaren Solus GT!” The presenter is not named on screen or in the caption, and neither is the car’s owner, so this article names neither.

The clearest frame from the video shows the car in a warehouse, a low orange and black single seater sitting on a wooden ramp at the edge of its shipping pallet, with two workers in high visibility vests beside it and racking full of boxes behind. Over a little more than two minutes the presenter walks around it. At the back is what the presenter calls “the massive spoiler to the four million dollar McLaren Solus GT.” The bodywork is “completely open here,” and “each wheel is like a separate island from the car.”

Up by the cockpit, the presenter points out two controls before the steering wheel: “a fire extinguisher button” and a switch that turns “on the electronics of the car.” Then: “You’ve got your F1 inspired wheel.” At one point the presenter remarks on “how lightweight this is.”

The big claims come near the end. “This is a four million dollar McLaren,” the presenter says. “Only 25 will ever be made. Look at this. This is 13 of 25. It is a naturally aspirated V10.” The price and the build number are the presenter’s statements.

What McLaren Says the Solus GT Is

Most of what the presenter points at lines up with McLaren’s launch press release, issued when the car was revealed on August 19, 2022, during Monterey Car Week in California. McLaren describes it as a track only, single seat, closed cockpit car, and says production is limited to 25, all of which were sold before the public reveal. That matches the presenter’s “only 25 will ever be made.”

The engine is the one the presenter names: a 5.2 litre naturally aspirated V10. McLaren quotes more than 840PS and more than 650Nm, a rev limit beyond 10,000rpm, a target of 2.5 seconds from 0 to 100 km/h and a top speed above 200mph. It says the car weighs under 1,000kg and generates more than 1,200kg of downforce, more than its own weight.

The way in that the presenter demonstrates is by design. McLaren says the cockpit is reached through a sliding canopy that opens through a shallow arc, like a fighter jet’s, rather than through doors. The release also confirms the details the presenter points to inside: a steering wheel inspired by Formula 1, and a plumbed in emergency fire extinguisher with its switches above the driver’s head.

The car started life as a game. McLaren says the design comes from a concept created for the Gran Turismo Sport video game, and the release announcing it is titled “From fantasy to reality.” The Gran Turismo site still lists the original as the McLaren Ultimate Vision Gran Turismo.

What a Solus GT Buyer Gets Besides the Car

The release also lists what comes with the car. Each owner gets a motorsport style seat fitting, with the seat moulded to the driver’s body; a bespoke FIA homologated race suit, helmet and HANS device; and a driver development coaching programme. The car comes with a flight case of trackside equipment that includes tools, jacks, stands, radio sets and a coolant pre heater. McLaren said first customer deliveries would begin in 2023.

If You Are Looking at a Track Only Car

Ask the maker, not the seller, about the build number. The presenter says “13 of 25”; a buyer of any numbered car should get that number confirmed in writing by the manufacturer against the chassis number.

Count the kit. With the Solus GT, McLaren’s programme includes the fitted seat, the safety gear and the trackside flight case. On any track car, ask what originally shipped with it and whether it is all still there, because missing equipment is part of what you are paying for.

Plan for transport and support. A car McLaren describes as track only is not something you drive to the circuit. Budget for an enclosed trailer, storage, and a support crew who know how to run the coolant pre heater and the electronics before it ever turns a wheel.