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One of the key strategies of McLaren’s TRACK 22 business plan is the development of a Pure Electric Vehicle (or EV) to one day sit in its Ultimate Series. Meanwhile a Pure EV based on today’s McLaren P1 is now available but only to a limited group of potential customers …

The Bugatti Veyron is always the yardstick on which others are measured, and this time it’s the McLaren P1’s turn. This epic drag race, which took place in the United States, sees the 664kW hybrid McLaren P1 battling it out with the 735kW Veyron. While the Veyron might be up …

Most of us would not hesitate to say yes to the above question and now McLaren has made it possible for us to afford its P1 hypercar. While production of the full size model may have ended, McLaren has linked up with selected partners to offer a scaled down version …

The track-dedicated 735kW (1000PS) McLaren P1 GTR will break cover at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show in limited production form with only minor modifications to the Design Concept presented just six months ago. The most noticeable change is the livery that the Geneva show car will be sporting.  It is …

McLaren has unveiled the first interior images of its track-only McLaren P1 GTR. Designed to be as focused for the driver as possible, and stripped of all but the essential items to keep weight in check, the centre piece of the cockpit is the newly developed steering wheel. It has …

Twenty years ago, the then soon-to-be-launched McLaren F1 GTR began testing ahead of an assault on the 1995 GT season. The track derivative, as the road-going version had done, rewrote the rule book and the claimed victories and titles across the globe in the years that followed, securing a place …

Twenty years on from victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans by the now legendary McLaren F1 GTR, McLaren Automotive will resurrect the iconic name from its history for the track-only edition of the award-winning McLaren P1. The limited-run model will go into production when the 375th and final …

A new wave of Nürburgring lap record war is brewing. First it was the Porsche 911, then it was Nissan with its GT-R Nismo, then it’s back to Porsche in the latest round with its 918 Spyder setting the lap record of 6 minutes and 57 seconds. Now, a new …

 Thanks to our friends with the long lense, the highly anticipated prototype version of the McLaren P1 has been caught while out testing.   With the production model still a year away, it offers us a glimpse of what the final car will look like, both inside and out. …