Half Of McLaren’s Cars Will Be Hybrids By 2022, But There’s No SUV On The Agenda
All seems to be going rather well at McLaren Automotive, with 2015 being another record sales year for the company. It’s just the start, though, with Woking this week announcing an ambitious business plan dubbed ‘Track22’, which will see the company launch 15 “all-new cars or derivatives” and invest a massive £1 billion in research and development.
What’s most interesting is the sort of cars we’ll be seeing from the McLaren: it reckons 50 per cent of all models will feature hybrid technology by the end of the business plan.
Also of interest is what doesn’t seem to be in the plan: SUVs. McLaren has previously stated that - despite the potential to make masses of money from 4x4s and other sports car companies going down the crossover route - such cars are of no interest to the firm, and are against what Woking is all about.
With the lack of any mention of SUVs in the Track22 announcement - and the fact that all of the new cars are set to be pigeon holed in the existing Sports Series, Super Series and Ultimate Series families of cars - it would appear McLaren is sticking to this stance. However, there has been talk of McLaren Special Operations (MSO) producing an SUV if demanded by a rich customer, but it’d be a bespoke vehicle costing millions of pounds.
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Good because SUV doesn’t sound like Mclaren.
They said the same about Porsche, but I see them everywhere. I do hope McLaren never makes them though, the world has had enough SUV’s!
What if they produced an extremely limited run series of performance SUVs like the Range Rover Sport SVR with performance hybrid systems, active aero and carbonfibre body
Yes it would be infinitely pointless but a very entertaining prospect nonetheless
What they could do is take SUV from Merc’s garage and make some magic with it.
Electric cars acceleration is the best but most of the electric cars are bad
Not the Tesla’s bruh! Though it’s not fully electric :D
thank god they are not doing suvs like everyone elseI’d rather they did a saloon/hatchback (like the panamera) if they really needed something that would bring them the money
The P1 has already proven what McLaren can do with hybrid technology on their cars. This is perfectly acceptable. Even better without SUVs, because wanting a SUV from McLaren is like trying to grind granola into a coffee machine to make a substitute. Its not going to work.
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No SUV finally a company which does not follow the whole SUV hype. And stays with their best core products.
Hooray for McLaren
And Ferrari, at least there are 2 sensible companies.
NoSUV yeah!
So 1 car will be hybrid? P1 already is so……….. Goal set, met?