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At Goodwood, McLaren has announced its new Track25 business plan, aimed at taking the British automaker well into the next decade. Among the milestones set by the Track25 roadmap is to ensure that McLaren’s entire sports car and supercar range will feature hybrid power within the next seven years, among them a new Ultimate Series that will succeed the petrol-electric P1. McLaren will also evaluate new augmented driving features in order to develop a lighter, superfast-charging, high-power battery system for performance applications, expected to offer more than 30 minutes of electric range around a race track. The soon-to-open McLaren Composites Technology Center (MCTC) will be where the automaker will develop and manufacture lightweight technology. Once operational, the MCTC will ensure that roughly 57% of vehicle content by value will be UK-sourced. Mostly, though, the focus will be to develop 18 new models or derivatives that should lift production by almost 75%, meaning b...

McLaren’s iconic ‘Longtail’ story continues with the new 600LT, powered by a 600 PS 3.8-liter twin turbo V8 engine. Its UK price is £185,500 with taxes, a figure that includes the Pure McLaren Road Owner Track Day experience with driver training. Both the iconic F1 GTR ‘Longtail’ as well as the already renowned 675LT stood as inspiration for the 600LT, a car built to excel on both roads as well as race tracks. “The McLaren 600LT is only the fourth ‘Longtail’ McLaren in more than two decades. The McLaren F1 GTR ‘Longtail’ that began the lineage was one of the purest race cars in modern motorsport history. The 675LT resurrected the revered name, creating the purest distillation of the sheer driving pleasure embodied by all McLaren cars,” stated McLaren CEO, Mike Flewitt. “Now we are further extending our very special LT family –albeit in limited numbers – and once again showcasing the ethos of optimised aerodynamics, increased power, reduced weight, track-focused dynam...

McLaren will widen the gap between its newly launched  Sports Series  and Super Series range with the introduction of the next-gen 650S and 675LT. Equipped with a similar setup as the  P1 hypercar , the new vehicle, code-named P14, will adopt a hybrid powertrain, with an updated twin-turbo 3.8-liter V8 serving as the centerpiece and a lighter electrification system. " The P1 had 375 pounds of [electric powertrain] if you added it up; I think that today we’re within a 70- to 110-pound weight penalty for hybrid. I want to eliminate that, get it to zero—and then really hack off my engineers by saying we want to make it even lighter than a conventional powertrain would be  ", McLaren CEO, Mike Flewitt, told  Car and Driver . Besides being faster than the  650S  and  675LT , the new car will also have improved aerodynamics, with designers and engineers working closely together throughout the development. " It’s not about us creating something beauti...