It’s a great day for supercar fans.
Renowned and beloved British supercar firm McLaren has revealed what it calls Track25, which is its plan to see the marque into the middle of the next decade. As part of that plan, what is perhaps the most exciting part, McLaren intends to introduce no less than 18 new cars in that timeframe. And it’ll include all-new P1 and P23 hypecars.
Please hold while we squeal gleefully.
Some £1.2-billion has been earmarked for the expansion (the equivalent of about $2.15-billion) of the brand, as was revealed by McLaren’s global sales & marketing director Jolyon Nash.
A part of moving to a new generation of cars includes a new generation of powertrain systems, and by the end of the Track25 plan the entirety of McLaren’s Sport & Super Series cars will feature an electrified, hybrid powertrain. Only the Ultimate Series hypercars will be spared the wave of electrification.
But a pure-combustion Ultimate Series is temporary, as McLaren intends to develop fast-charging, lighter, higher-density batteries for its high-performance applications that will be able to do up to 290km or “up to 10 laps of Nardo” on a full charge. That could set the stage for an all-electric Ultimate Series car in the future, we think.
With projected sales up to 6,000 per year by 2025, it’s clearly onwards and upwards for the brand. But what McLaren will not do is introduce an SUV, as its contemporary Lamborghini has done, or what Ferrari intends to do. Nash said that SUVs are “the antithesis of lightweight supercars,” which are tenets of the McLaren brand that they will not renege on… at least, until 2025.
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