The "quickest, rarest and last" of McLaren's P1 line-up, the P1 LM.

McLaren has decided that their P1 is too good to discontinue, so yep, following the footsteps of the legendary F1 LM, here comes the McLaren P1 LM. First off, how rare will this car be? We can get an insight into this from the F1 LM’s price. ‘Cheap’ is all we can say about the price… Last year, an F1 LM sold at an auction for just $13.75 million. Not a big deal… Yes, we use sarcasm.

So, what makes this different from a ‘standard’ P1 or a P1 GTR? Well first, we will give you our seemingly obvious favourite things about the new P1 LM from specifications, and our least favourite things about it. So what is the best thing about it? Well, the P1 LM is drivable on public roads, making it similar to simply releasing an untamed beast out onto public tarmac. Bad news? Well, you’re releasing an untamed beast out onto public tarmac! Apart from that we couldn’t give you many disadvantages of the new P1 LM… Except maybe unless you’re super lucky, you’ll probably never see one, with a total production run of just six, with one being a prototype, called the XP1! Oh, and the car might freak some people out while the owners are getting groceries or going for a fuel stop in a crazy 735 kilowatt road-legal ‘spaceship’. But we question if that’s positive or negative. Oh and one more negative, on the more serious side of things… This will be the last run of the P1, before it is finally discontinued.

McLaren Automotive will assemble these cars as stock standard P1 GTR’s, then send them off to Lanzante Automotive (the company that inspired the production of the F1 LM back in the 1990’s) to be fine tuned and modified into the road-going P1 LM’s. But how will Lanzante make a track version of a super-fast road-going hyper car back into an even faster road-going-track-based-hypercar? (Confusing to write, read, understand and speak)

The key modification will be getting the advanced hybrid drivetrain of the P1 GTR running on 99 octane pump gas, making it road legal, and keeping it at a previously mentioned 735kW (986 hp). Lightweight materials, polycarbonate windows, getting rid of less necessary materials, and even replacing factory bolts with titanium bolts all help it save 59 kilograms over the P1 GTR.

Lanzante will build five production units, with one dark grey and four orange. Oh and with the P1 GTR’s hefty price of 2 million British pounds, we aren’t looking forward to the release price of this!

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