Prior to the McLaren P1′s production debut at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show, several photos of the exotic was released when it visited the Bahrain International Circuit.
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This year’s Geneva Motor Show was a feast for supercar fans, with Lamborghini, Ferrari and McLaren all showing off new top-dog vehicles. British supercar maker McLaren showed off the new P1, a car that will replace the iconic and legendary McLaren F1.
The McLaren P1 sat uncovered in production form today on the eve of the 2013 Geneva Motor Show beside the legendary F1 it supplants.
McLaren P1
Few car companies are committed to all-out performance quite like McLaren. The boutique British brand is probably best known for its outrageous F1 supercar that set speed records in the 1990s. But the company is far from a one-hit wonder. Over the last decade and a half they’ve been active in racing, worked with other automakers like Mercedes-Benz to deliver some awe-inspiring vehicles and have even developed a successor to the F1 – the elegant looking but awkwardly named MP4-12C.
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Pushing into the future, McLaren is set to reveal a new supercar at the Geneva Motor Show in just a few days, and believe it or not the P1 as it’s known is actually a hybrid. But don’t worry; it’ll still deliver absolutely crushing performance. Here are the Top 10 things you must know about this exciting new McLaren before it takes the stage next week.
The production McLaren P1 will make its debut at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show, but to whet appetites, the British automaker released a photo gallery of the prototype P1 sitting pretty at the Bahrain International Circuit.
It’s shaping up to be a good year for McLaren. The brand is gearing up to launch its P1 supercar, but what use is the present without understanding the past?
The official production model of the McLaren P1 hasn’t even debuted, but that hasn’t stopped plenty of people to line up and order the supercar.
McLaren is still in the process of fine tuning its P1 supercar at the track and on the road, and the brand has just released some video footage of the car undergoing testing.
Fresh details on the McLaren P1 have just emerged after an event for customers, though the news raises more questions than answers.
At a recent private event in New York, McLaren put its P1 on display and revealed some info on the production model, saying that the vehicle was 97-percent production spec.
McLaren is readying the P1 supercar for production, and our spy photographers recently caught the car testing, looking exactly the same as the concept that was shown off at the 2012 Paris Auto Show.
With a power-to-weight ratio of over 600 hp per ton, the McLaren P1 supercar debuted today at the 2012 Paris Motor Show, though more as a tease than anything else.
Even more pictures of the McLaren P1 supercar leaked today ahead of its scheduled debut at the Paris Motor Show.
British sports car manufacturer McLaren revealed concept images last week of its upcoming P1 supercar ahead of the scheduled Paris debut, but the patent drawing above might lend clues to the actual production car’s shape.