McLaren Ultimate Series
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McLaren tipped to be developing a lighter and much more powerful powertrain for its P1 successor.
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McLaren reveals details on Speedtail's 1,055-horsepower hybrid powertrain
The Speedtail's hybrid powertrain helps make the car the fastest McLaren to date.
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McLaren cuts back build slots for Elva speedster
McLaren's boss has revealed that the Elva will be substantially more exclusively than originally planned.
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MSO's newest Elva livery honors the first orange McLaren
McLaren has revealed an Elva livery that honors the M6A race car that competed in the 1967 Can-Am season.
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First McLaren Speedtail is delivered
McLaren's latest flagship is a hybrid hypercar with 1,035 horsepower and an F1-style 3-seat layout.
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McLaren Speedtail will hit 250 mph without breaking a sweat, again and again
For high-speed testing, McLaren took the Speedtail to the Johnny Bohmer Proving Grounds located at Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
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McLaren Beverly Hills has secured three Senna prototypes and is offering them up for sale.
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McLaren's next Ultimate Series member is the Elva speedster
The sultry speedster packs an 804-horsepower version of the 4.0-liter twin-turbo V-8 from the 720S and Senna.
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McLaren Speedtail build slot can be yours for $5.5M
A build slot for one of 106 McLaren Speedtails is up for sale for about $5.5 million.
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McLaren Senna GTR set for dynamic debut at 2019 Goodwood Members’ Meeting
The McLaren Senna is a wild, track-focused hypercar. That much is clear. But there's always more, and the automaker recently inched forward with the more extreme McLaren Senna GTR unveiled in March. This one isn't track focused; this one is track only. McLaren isn't due to start deliveries of the...
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Here's why McLaren's Speedtail isn't street-legal in US
McLaren finally introduced a true successor to the legendary F1 supercar on Friday in the form of the Speedtail, but the latest go-fast machine from the British firm shares one key detail with the F1 that isn't so fantastic: it's not street-legal in the U.S. Like the F1, only 106 examples of the...
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McLaren Speedtail is a hypercar spaceship with central driving position, 1,035 hp
McLaren on Friday unveiled a car billed as the spiritual successor to the legendary F1: the Speedtail. It's a streamlined hypercar with a central driving position and hybrid powertrain, and just 106 will be built, the number matching the original number of F1s sold. Unlike rival hypercars like the...
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The virtual hypercar known as the McLaren Ultimate Vision Gran Turismo is entering production. However, you won't see it McLaren's showrooms as the car, code-named the BC03, is a special commission by a loyal McLaren customer to be built by McLaren Special Operations. BC stands for “Bespoke Commission,” and the number points to this being the third of its kind. The first was the X-1 supercar unveiled in 2012 while the second was the MSO R unveiled last year. News of the BC03 was reported Friday by Piston Heads and since confirmed to Motor Authority by a McLaren spokesman...
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986-horsepower McLaren P1 LM takes on Pikes Peak
The McLaren P1 LM is currently the fastest street-legal car around the Nürburgring, with retired racer and current McLaren test driver Kenny Bräck taking the car around the German track in just 6:43.22 during final testing in March 2017. The record for production cars is the 6:44.97 that...
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Is McLaren planning an assault on the production car 'Ring record with the Senna?
After Porsche's 918 Spyder ran a 6:57 lap of the Nürburgring in 2013, which was a record for production cars at the time, McLaren backed out of the challenge and instead claimed its rival P1 could go under the 7:00 mark without providing any proof, leaving many to question the credibility of...
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Scrape your change: McLaren P1 GTR #001 is for sale
Those looking to own one of the most sought-after modern McLarens, the time has come. A P1 GTR is up for sale, and not just any of the handful of McLaren P1 GTRs built, but the very first example to roll off the line. The folks at duPont Registry have the car listed for sale. It's one of about 40...
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McLaren confirms Speedtail name, 2018 reveal for F1 successor
McLaren's spiritual successor to the F1 will be called a Speedtail, the British firm announced Wednesday. The name is meant to evoke the car's flowing, highly streamlined design. Code-named the BP32 and described as a hyper GT, the Speedtail will make its debut later this year ahead of the first...
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2019 McLaren Senna first drive review: Ultimate street-legal performer
In the age of YouTube, an exotic carmaker needs exciting overhead tracking video of its latest automotive thunderbolt to thrill online fans. McLaren Automotive ran into unexpected difficulty getting that shot. The McLaren Senna’s extravagant wings, spoilers, splitters, vents, and ducts so...
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At least one of the 500 individuals awarded a build slot for the McLaren Senna supercar has opted to have most of it's beautiful carbon fiber left exposed, and McLaren will treat us with the unveiling of the completed car at next week's 2018 Geneva International Motor Show. It's one of five themes the MSO personalization department is offering to Senna buyers, and it's by no means an easy result to achieve. Comprising 67 parts, the full carbon fiber body takes almost 1,000 hours to polish and refine to the level shown here. And extra care was required to apply the matte “S” and...
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Final build slot for McLaren Senna raises $2.67M for charity
McLaren only plans to build 500 examples of its street-legal, track-focused Senna supercar. All but one build slot for the car was available when it made its debut on December 10 at McLaren’s headquarters in the United Kingdom, and McLaren chose to auction off that final build slot to help...
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New McLaren Senna unleashed, lightest hypercar in automaker's "Ultimate" stable
McLaren brought back a legendary name Saturday night, one from its pedigree of historic Formula One racing. The new McLaren Senna was unveiled in England, a new hypercar in the automaker's stable complete with 789 horsepower and 590 pound-feet of torque motivating just 2,641 pounds of mass (dry)...
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A McLaren P1 Experimental Prototype is for sale
When an automaker is developing a new vehicle, it first creates prototype versions that get thrashed to hell and back. Validation tests put specific areas of a vehicle in high-stress situations so engineers can find what's going to break, and what they can do to stop it from breaking. When a...
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McLaren P15 teased, reveal set for December 10
What McLaren describes as the "most intensive driver experience" around a track has an official debut date. The company will reveal the McLaren P15 online on December 10. The P15 is not the confirmed successor to the famed F1, which has its own codename: BP23. The P15 will represent a new chapter...
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2019 McLaren P15 spy shots
Only this week we saw McLaren confirm plans for a new member for its flagship Ultimate Series range, and now we have the first spy shots of what’s likely a test mule. The test mule hides the new mechanicals within the makeshift body of a 675LT but still gives away some clues. Compared to the...
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