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In October 2016, councillors were reported to be looking at a proposition for land opposite the McLaren Technology Centre for construction and announced the 'Pure McLaren Arctic Experience' the same month, an event where a participant was trained to drive a 570S in the Arctic Circle. The company debuted a car for children, the P1TM, after the P1, in September 2016 and announced the same month that they are developing a powerful battery for Formula E.

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After introducing a business plan to release a car or model every year, the company unveiled the 650S in Coupé and Spider models in 2014, and unveiled the new Sports Series range comprising the McLaren 570S and 540C in 2015. The limited-run P1 went into production in 2013 and ended in 2015. The company launched the 12C in 2011 and the Spider model in 2012. In August 1988, Dennis, Team Principal and Gordon Murray started to develop a new car and in 1992, the F1 was launched with a total production run of just 106 units.įollowing a brief collaboration with Mercedes-Benz for the SLR McLaren, McLaren Automotive was re-launched as a standalone manufacturer in 2010, spinning off McLaren Racing.

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McLaren pioneered the use of carbon fibre in motor racing with its new car, the MP4/1, bringing new levels of rigidity and driver safety to Formula 1. Carbon fibre was already used in aerospace applications but had never been applied to a complete racing car monocoque. The merger brought back designer John Barnard, who was interested in using carbon fibre composite. In 1980, the company merged with Ron Dennis’ Project 4 Racing team. However, McLaren died in a car accident in 1970 before the prototype could be completed. In 1965, the first McLaren Formula One car, the M2B, debuted at the Monaco Grand Prix.Īfter his victories and time in the F3, McLaren was designing and testing a prototype M6GT-registered OBH 500H, a lightweight sports car with an estimated top speed of 165 mph and zero to 100 mph time of eight seconds. Its successor, the M1B, allowed McLaren into the Can-Am championship, where it dominated with 43 victories, almost three times more than rival Porsche. A year later, the company built the first true McLaren race car – the M1 (24 customer cars were produced by Elva). McLaren founded Bruce McLaren Motor Racing in 1963. He stayed with Cooper for a further seven years, winning three more Grands Prix and other races, driving for Jaguar and Aston Martin, and winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966 with Ford. That same year, he won the US Grand Prix at age 22, making him the youngest Grand Prix winner to that date. Auspiciously starting his Formula One career in 1958, McLaren joined the Formula One team a year later. His mentor, Jack Brabham, introduced him to Cooper Cars, a small team based in Surbiton, Surrey. In 1958, McLaren arrived in the United Kingdom with the 'Driver to Europe' scheme, intended to help Australian and New Zealand racers to compete in Europe. By 15, he had entered a local hillclimb in an Austin 7 Ulster, winning his first race in the car. McLaren's Formula One founder Bruce McLaren was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1937, and learned about cars and engineering at his parents' service station and workshop there. The new company was originally separate from the existing McLaren companies to enable investment in the new venture, but was brought together in July 2017 after Ron Dennis sold his shares in McLaren Automotive and McLaren Group. Between 19, McLaren Cars was registered as a 'dormant company', before the founding of McLaren Automotive in 2010. McLaren Cars had been founded in 1985 and released the McLaren F1 in 1992. McLaren Automotive replaced McLaren Cars in 2010. In July 2017, McLaren Automotive became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the wider McLaren Group. The main products of the company are sports cars, which are produced in-house in designated production facilities.

McLaren Automotive (formerly known as McLaren Cars) is a British luxury automotive manufacturer based at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, England.