The Gentleman Magazine Issue 10 | August 2018 | Page 19

McLAREN AUTOMOTIVE TO LAUNCH 18 NEW CARS AS
PART OF £1.2BN PLAN TO GO 100% HYBRID BY 2025
At the Goodwood Festival of Speed, luxury British sportscar
and supercar maker McLaren Automotive has announced
its ambitious, wide-ranging business plan that will take the
company to its fifteenth anniversary.
Track25 is an evolution of the Track22 plan that was first
launched at the Geneva Motor Show in 2016 and the updated
plan now includes significant new milestones.
Track25 sets out a clear roadmap for future vehicles, production
and technology that will allow the brand to continue to position
itself as a major global player in the sportscar and supercar
market.
McLaren is committed to ensuring that its sportscar and
supercar range will be hybrid within seven years. True to
the spirit of pushing the boundaries of technology to benefit
drivers, McLaren will also evaluate new augmented driving
features and help develop a lighter, superfast-charging, high-
power battery system for performance applications that is
expected to have over 30 minutes of electric range around a
race track.
The company will also continue its drive to win the new
supercar ‘weight race’ by ensuring, as it does today, that each of
its products is the lightest in their segment. This complements
a £50m investment in developing and manufacturing the
future of lightweighting technology with the soon to-open
McLaren Composites Technology Centre (MCTC). Once fully
operational, the MCTC will mean around 57 per cent of vehicle
content by value will be UK sourced.
Having launched the world’s first ever petrol-electric hybrid-
hypercar five years ago with the iconic McLaren P1TM,
fittingly McLaren plan to unleash its successor as part of the
Track25 plan.
While staying faithful to the core idea of creating and hand-
assembling the world’s best drivers’ cars, McLaren will remain
focussed on crafting mid-engined sportscars and sportscars.
Investment in 18 new models or derivatives will help lift
production by almost 75 per cent over current levels to around
6,000 cars a year by