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McLaren and JVCKenwood have joined forces to create a technology-stuffed demonstrator car for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, based on a 675LT Coupé.
Called (perhaps unsurprisingly) the 675LT JVCKENWOOD Concept, this one-off ICE showpiece celebrates a 25-year collaboration between the carmaker and electronics giant. It therefore has a full JVCKenwood Caroptronics system on board.
This incorporates a 'fully digital cockpit experience', apparently, thanks to Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) which equate to a head-up display (HUD) that can detect the presence of other vehicles and a full set of digital cameras that replaces all the conventional mirrors on the car; the combined view from these is displayed at the top of the windscreen instead.
This high-tech arsenal means the cabin is changed from a regular 675LT's affair, the most obvious addition being the steering wheel from a P1 GTR and the most obvious omission being the instrument cluster, rendered unnecessary by the HUD set-up and thus replaced with a single vent providing cooling air to the driver. Flashes of orange colour within, as well as silver JVCKenwood stripes on the exterior body, complete the package.
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If you're thinking JVCKenwood has ruined one of the scarce and hugely desirable examples of the 500 Coupé 675LTs that were ever built, fear not - the CES concept car is based on an LT prototype that McLaren had knocking around at Woking.