McLaren engineers explain all you need to know about its new V-8 and hypercar hybrid powertrain. T he key to understanding the old McLaren P1’s hybrid system is the phrase “to ...
McLaren invited us to see the W1 at Jay Leno's garage in Southern California alongside the man himself and its predecessors from Leno's collection and learn about the problems and ...
the P1. In total, the successor to the McLaren F1 supercar makes 903 hp and 664 lb-ft of torque thanks to a twin-turbo 3.8-liter V8 engine mated to an electric motor. The gasoline engine itself is ...
Like the P1, the W1 is a hybrid with that aforementioned ... from the axial flux motor used in the Artura - contributing 342 hp and 324 lb-ft of torque to the total outputs. McLaren has taken ...
This McLaren P1 has been sitting in a Middle East collection for the past decade. The hypercar from Woking shows only 130 km ...
According to Motor1, which got the details direct from McLaren powertrain chief Richard Jackson, the hybrid powertrain uses a ...
Like the P1 before it, the McLaren W1 has a hybrid powertrain blending ... for an impressive 230 hp/liter. The electric motor adds another 342 hp and 324 lb-ft, bringing the grand total to 1,258 ...
Total output is a massive 1,258 hp, while torque is an equally muscular ... The latter is almost four seconds quicker than the McLaren P1 and 7.5s quicker than the F1. Top speed of the W1 is ...
McLaren has produced the last of 375 examples of the P1 hybrid hypercar, with just a handful of GTRs to go, no further variants to follow, and no current plans for a successor. McLaren just built ...