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Crafty competition plans resulted in the wickedly fast and noisy SLR 722 GT – but sadly not a suitably evocative race series, as James Page discovers

I’m kicking myself. The boys from McLaren Special Operations have just rocked up to the test track in a sun-bleached So-Cal VW ‘Squareback’ – the VW Variant, to us Brits – and I’m looking distinctly underdressed in my plain-Jane Volvo estate. If only I’d brought the Mustang instead.