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The SV650 is dead, long live the SV-7S!

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McLaren Automotive is the youngest of the great supercar houses and, in some ways, the most single-minded. It grew out of the racing team Bruce McLaren founded in the 1960s, and it builds its road cars around carbon-fiber tubs on a gleaming campus in Woking, Surrey, that looks more like a Bond villain's lair than a factory. Every model it sells is mid-engined, rear-driven and obsessed with weight, a philosophy that has made McLaren the driver's alternative to Ferrari and Lamborghini rather than an imitation of either.

The legend starts with the 1990s McLaren F1, Gordon Murray's three-seat, gold-lined masterpiece that held the production-car speed record for years and still sets auction records today. The modern company relaunched with the MP4-12C in 2011, then built the P1 hybrid hypercar, the track-bred Senna and a ladder of Sport, Super and Ultimate Series cars. Owners rave about the steering, the ride and the visibility; critics have long poked at electrical gremlins, steep depreciation and a naming scheme only a spreadsheet could love.

The current lineup centers on the V8 750S, the GTS grand tourer, the plug-in hybrid Artura and the W1 hypercar. Behind the scenes, recent years have been turbulent: repeated cash raises, the sale and leaseback of its headquarters and a change of control that put McLaren in Abu Dhabi-backed hands and merged it with the electric start-up Forseven. The plans that followed include new engines, new factories and the first McLaren SUV, aimed squarely at the Ferrari Purosangue and Lamborghini Urus, along with a manual-gearbox car previewed by the McL 6GT concept.

The news here runs from the glamorous to the gritty: reveals and first drives, bespoke one-offs, auction results for F1s and Sennas, recalls, financing offers and the long-running question of how a small supercar maker pays for its ambitions. It also tracks the people, the strategy and the delicate business of keeping a racing name alive on the road while the rest of the industry rewrites the rules around it.

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Woking's carbon-tubbed supercar maker, from the F1 and P1 to the W1 and Artura, plus new owners, an SUV on the way and a manual comeback.

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750S McLaren's twin-turbo V8 supercar, the sharpened heir to the 720S, sold as a coupe or Spider and still a benchmark for steering feel in its class.
Artura McLaren's plug-in hybrid V6 supercar on an all-new carbon platform, offered as coupe and Spider, now reportedly due to bow out around 2028.
W1 and Senna McLaren's no-compromise flagships: the winged, track-obsessed Senna and the 1,200-plus-horsepower hybrid W1, heirs to the F1 and P1 hypercars.

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