The brand has established itself as a marque filled with exciting road cars, from its relatively tamed GT models to its otherworldly hypercars like the McLaren Sabre. Recently, the automaker ...

But that didn't mean Bruce McLaren had given up on his road car, which was supposed to be faster than anything with a license plate before. In early 1970, he prepared a prototype merging one of ...

The McLaren F1, one of the most iconic supercars from the modern era, is famous for many innovative features and technology but also for being the company's first-ever road-going car. And while ...

February 13, 2006 It was sadly many years after the death of New Zealand racing driver and automotive engineer Bruce McLaren that his dream of creating the world’s fastest road car became a ...

Its origin can be loosely traced back to a Group C race car, and its legacy is one steeped in acclaim and admiration. This is the McLaren M838T V8 engine. This article focuses on the history ...

"You'll have to recalibrate your idea of road car performance." Color us intrigued. Some background: The clumsily named MP4-12C, McLaren's first road car aside from the limited-production F1 (only ...

In March 1990, the team created to build that car came together for the first time. Just two years later, the McLaren F1 road car was launched on May 28, 1992, in Monaco, with the first production ...

Murray was probably the first man to incorporate carbon ... specially designed energy-absorbing structure, and the McLaren must be the only road-going car that survived a 30-mph barrier crash ...

Murray and the McLaren team set to work on creating the F1, the company’s first ever road-legal production car. Less than four years later, McLaren’s cost-is-no-object approach to the F1’s ...

are part of what kept McLaren from building as many F1 road cars as the company would have liked. Yet it was an amazing vehicle, the first to employ a carbon fiber monococque chassis and still the ...

McLaren F1 and McLaren Artura aside, the British automaker has only used V8 engines to power its road-going cars. Nearly all of its models used different variations of a single V8 engine.