McLaren P1 Makes Waves

This is the amazing new McLaren P1 and it certainly lives up to the idea that it is the true successor to the McLaren F1. It is designed to be the best road and track driver’s car in the world. This variant is only a design study but it’s likely that come 2013 a production model will be made.

“The McLaren P1 will be the result of 50 years of racing and road car heritage,” says McLaren Automotive Executive Chairman Ron Dennis. “Twenty years ago we raised the supercar performance bar with the McLaren F1 and our goal with the McLaren P1 is to redefine it once again.”

“Our aim is not necessarily to be the fastest in absolute top speed but to be the quickest and most rewarding series production road car on a circuit,” says McLaren Automotive Managing Director Antony Sheriff. “It is the true test of a supercar’s all round ability and a much more important technical statement. Our goal is to make the McLaren P1 the most exciting, most capable, most technologically advanced and most dynamically accomplished supercar ever made.”

When the McLaren P1 goes into production later next year, it will sit above the 12C and 12C Spider, in terms of both price and performance. My guess is in excess of over 700 horsepower and a likely 0-60 time of around the 2.8 seconds mark. Top speed? Given that the McLaren MP4-12C can peg just over 200 miles per hour the P1 will likely be able to reach 220 to make it sufficiently different.