McLaren will show the next installment of its Ultimate Series later this year – the range that currently includes Senna, Senna GTR, Speedtail and Elva. But actually we’re talking about a successor to the cars with a 1 in the name, like in F1 and P1. A Automotive News According to history, the newest superstar from Woking, England will cost around $2 million when he arrives in 2026.
However, it will sell out long before then, if it hasn’t already, as McLaren is only making 400 of them. In addition, the selection process has become more exclusive. McLaren said those who bought the $2.5 million Solus GT track car (pictured) will be offered the first chance to buy the Ultimate Series car. The Solus GT was originally a Vision Gran Turismo fiction, of which the English company produced 25 real examples, each powered by a 5.2-liter V10 with 829 horsepower and 479 pound-feet of torque.
Traders coming out of corporate meetings in Las Vegas told the story A that McLaren showed a rendering of a new car, codenamed P18, which combines the more graceful lines of the P1 with “the technical aspects of the Senna”. The car will also not have the company’s typical butterfly doors, but will have gullwing doors. The description of the police sketch mentions a new headlight design with eye sockets, “floating fenders”, air intakes in the hood, as well as a snorkel in the C-pillar and more air intakes on the rear buttresses, as well as active aerodynamics on the hem with a front splitter. the rockers and an extendable wing with a “jewel-like” extension mechanism.
The P18 is powered by an all-new V8 hybrid powertrain, unrelated to any other current McLaren product. The combustion engine is said to have been developed with Riccardo, and the hybrid system is said to be 70% lighter than the hybrid unit in the Artura GT. The battery is a “high-density, lightweight” unit taken from the package in McLaren’s F1 race car. And it sounds like the steering precision will be as good as ever, with McLaren sticking with hydraulic steering and a new hydraulic suspension.
As for a market name, CarBuzz has filed four trademark applications for McLaren in the UK: W1, MP1, U1 and H1. Any of them could make the grade, or none of them could make it. And since it’s not scheduled to be released until the fourth quarter of this year, it’s possible that more submissions will come in.
In a separate interview, new Chief Design Officer Tobias Sühlmann talked about McLaren’s redesigned design language automobile Magazine: “There will potentially be a larger portfolio and we will have to look at different energy technologies. Are there more than two seats? Yes, possibly. And we have to develop a design language that separates each model from one another – that’s very important.”
Based on persistent rumors, it’s possible we’ll know more about one or two new McLarens by the time the new Ultimate Series car arrives in early 2026, which will form the basis for the larger portfolio of models with more than two doors and two seats.