McLaren has confirmed that the follow-up to the P1 and F1 shall be known as the W1.
The corporate mentioned the identify “celebrates [its] world championship mindset”, with the brand new automobile as a consequence of be revealed on 6 October – 50 years since McLaren gained its first constructors’ title in System 1.
The W1 comes simply over a decade after the P1 arrived because the successor to the 240mph F1.
A video lately revealed by the corporate options these two hallowed hypercars and refers back to the W1 as “the subsequent benchmark”.
It’s anticipated to benefit from the developments made with electrification for the reason that P1 was launched 12 years in the past.
McLaren has mentioned on quite a few events that there would must be a generational change in applied sciences to justify a brand new ‘1’ automobile.
With a pure-electric McLaren supercar understood to nonetheless be some years off, this subsequent ‘1’ hypercar is about to stay with a high-output hybrid powertrain that may little doubt comfortably outpace the 903bhp P1.
McLaren chief Michael Leiters final yr advised Autocar that the corporate was “unsure” on electrical supercars but due to their weight at current.
“We don’t wish to make a automobile that’s 2000kg and 2000hp – anyone can try this,” mentioned Leiters. “We wish to make a automobile that’s corresponding to the 750 weight-wise.”
Such a automobile shall be attainable “possibly on the finish of the last decade”, he added.
