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McLaren recently announced that it recorded the second consecutive year of operational profit, four years after it opened the first dealership. That doesn’t interest us too much frankly. What truly interests us is that there are two all-new McLaren Sports Series supercars in the pipeline.
At the present moment, the Sports Series boasts with the McLaren 570S and 540C, which are traditional fixed-head supercars. According to the Woking-based manufacturer, the second Sports Series body style “will be introduced in 2016 followed by another in 2017.” Our guess is the most natural of scenarios: the Spyder and Gran Turismo are it.
If the Formula 1-centric supercar-making company wants to make ends meet and move 4,000 cars per year, they’ll need the drop-top appeal of the McLaren 570S Spyder, as well as the practicality and comfort of the McLaren 570S Gran Turismo. After a little too many special editions from the MSO skunkworks, this bit of news truly appeases us.
As most of us expect, the engine that will animate the two new models will be a familiar 3.8-liter twin-turbo V8 that should be offered in two states of power: 540 PS and 570 PS, respectively. In McLaren-related news, the 375th and final P1 hypercar is slated to be assembled later this year.
In addition to the end of production for the P1, McLaren announced that it sold 1,649 vehicles in 2014, which is about 18 percent more than the year before. In terms of operating profit as percentage of sales, we’re looking at just 0.1% over the year 2013. For a specialty automaker that sells less than Maserati, Ferrari, and Lamborghini, we’re genuinely glad that McLaren Automotive is doing better than the F1 team.
If the Formula 1-centric supercar-making company wants to make ends meet and move 4,000 cars per year, they’ll need the drop-top appeal of the McLaren 570S Spyder, as well as the practicality and comfort of the McLaren 570S Gran Turismo. After a little too many special editions from the MSO skunkworks, this bit of news truly appeases us.
As most of us expect, the engine that will animate the two new models will be a familiar 3.8-liter twin-turbo V8 that should be offered in two states of power: 540 PS and 570 PS, respectively. In McLaren-related news, the 375th and final P1 hypercar is slated to be assembled later this year.
In addition to the end of production for the P1, McLaren announced that it sold 1,649 vehicles in 2014, which is about 18 percent more than the year before. In terms of operating profit as percentage of sales, we’re looking at just 0.1% over the year 2013. For a specialty automaker that sells less than Maserati, Ferrari, and Lamborghini, we’re genuinely glad that McLaren Automotive is doing better than the F1 team.
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