McLAREN BOSS RON DENNIS has announced that the company’s brand new supercar will debut this week as the MP4-12C, drawing its name from the company’s Formula 1 heritage. Above and following are recent spy photos of the car undergoing testing, dubbed at the time the ‘P11′.

The new McLaren, unlike its F1 forebear, [...]

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HYBRID TECH is increasingly the flavour of the month; now, even the most un-green marques such as Ferrari are contemplating their own petrol-electric high-performance models.

Not wanting to be left out of the game, it appears McLaren is looking to establish a hybrid vehicle program of its own.

The British supercar maker has advertised a job vacancy [...]

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Image: Auto Express and www.beyond-form.com.

The lads at Auto Express say these latest renderings of the McLaren P11 supercar are the most accurate yet, but for some reason we can’t help but be a little underwhelmed.

Compared to the unique race-car stylings of the McLaren F1, the P11 looks almost generic in its shape. McLaren’s gunning for [...]

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Ron Dennis will be landing firmly on his feet as he leaves McLaren Racing over the ‘Stewardsgate’ debacle.

News today puts Dennis at the helm of McLaren Automotive where he will oversee work on the upcoming McLaren P11 Supercar.

Dennis had this to say on the future of McLaren:
“The reorganisation of the McLaren Group is an extraordinarily [...]

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Leaked clay model photos of McLaren’s coming P11 supercar have just hit the web and it looks as though the speculative renderings we brought you back in August, were close to the mark. UK automotive magazine Car managed to obtain the images from an insider and has been kind enough to spread the love.

The two-door mid-engined supercar [...]

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The launch of McLaren’s upcoming P11 supercar has apparently been delayed to give newly-hired Chief of Design Frank Stephenson a chance to wave his magic stylus over the company’s first McLaren-badged road vehicle since the much-vaunted F1.

The P11 was meant to have been unveiled later this year, however with Stephenson contractually obliged by his [...]

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Slovenian website Avtomanija has weighed in on the juicy topic of McLaren’s much-rumoured successor to the indomitable F1 with these renderings of what it says represents the new F2/F12/P12.

There’s a little bit of Lotus Evora and Porsche Carrera GT in the design as well as a tinge of Aston in those wide rear arches, [...]

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More news regarding McLaren’s P11 supercar is coming to light. With production of the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren winding up in 2009, McLaren are gearing up for a suitable supercar replacement.

According to Autocar, early prototypes of the P11 began shakedown testing in mid-April in preparation for a 2009 unveiling before hitting showrooms in March 2010. The [...]

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WE DON’T NORMALLY endorse products or magazines at TMR, however every so often a story comes out that is too good not to shamelessly plug.

Car magazine in the UK always seems to have its finger on the pulse of the European auto industry and now seems to have struck gold with a world exclusive concerning [...]

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