McLaren is enamored with eSports — so much so that it’s expanding the scope of its program. The 2018 edition of the Shadow Project promises to be more “open and inclusive” than you might expect, letting you compete for virtual motorsports glory not just with die-hard PC racing simulators like iRacing and rFactor 2, but […]
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McLaren’s Senna Hypercar, Uber’s New Life in London, and More Car News This Week
Plus: VW climbs a mountain, robo-cars deliver groceries, and more from the molting world of transportation. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b36bc22af0d633ac7680909/master/pass/Transpo-autorally_chassis-w.jpg
Uber’s Robo-Truck, McLaren’s Senna Supercar, and More Cars News This Week
Self-driving trucks make news in Arizona and Florida, plus highlights from the supercar-happy Geneva Motor Show. https://media.wired.com/photos/5aa18e3edc9df6500b90747b/master/pass/CarRoundup-Mclaren.jpg
Watch McLaren’s stumble into the 2017 F1 season in new Amazon show
Enlarge / McLaren testing in Barcelona in the run up to the 2017 F1 season. The test did not go well… (credit: Sam Bloxham/LAT Images) Amazon Prime has returned to things four-wheeled with its latest original production. It’s not another Jeremy Clarkson spinoff, though; it’s a rare look at the inner workings of a Formula […]
McLaren’s Street-Legal GT4-Style 570S Is Awesome, and It’s Already Sold Out
– McLaren Special Operations, the customization division for McLaren’s road-car department, has just revealed another new product. This time, it’s a special-edition, GT4-inspired 570S created specifically for customers of McLaren Newport Beach, the company’s largest U.S. retailer. – The McLaren MSO X was commissioned as a bespoke project to emulate the look and feel of the […]
McLaren’s New 570S Spider Supercar Adds Practicality to Luxury
McLaren claims you can have your cake, and eat it too—if you can eat cake while the wind blasts you at triple-digit speeds. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a4d6d69df728824c67de1d2/master/pass/McLaren-Gallery-3.jpg Feed: All Latest
McLaren’s Senna Supercar Delivers Wild Performance, Costs a Million Dollars
The 4.0-liter V8 engine that sits behind the two carbon fiber seats produces 789 brake horsepower. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a2ed74941e00716c855cfcf/master/pass/Large-8629McLaren-Senna—-7b.jpg Feed: All Latest
See the First Teaser Image for McLaren’s “Hyper GT,” But Forget about Buying One
– With the McLaren 720S now officially unveiled, the British supercar concern now can begin whetting the public’s appetite for what is presumably the next new model on the docket, the BP23. To that end, we have our first teaser image for the “hyper GT” (McLaren’s term) that will arrive in 2019 to finally replace […]
WADA admits McLaren’s ‘doping’ evidence against Russian athletes insufficient
WADA has admitted that Richard McLaren’s 2016 report on the alleged use of doping by Russian athletes is “not sufficient to bring successful cases,” the International Olympic Committee said. “At the recent meeting (21 February) held by WADA in Lausanne to ‘provide assistance to IFs [International Federations] regarding how to analyse and interpret the evidence,’ […]
McLaren’s next-gen Super Series will run the quarter mile in 10.3 seconds
The second-generation McLaren Super Series will depart from its predecessor in one major way. Since McLaren began producing cars in volume, every model it’s made has used some variation of the same 3.8-liter, twin-turbocharged V8. This engine has powered every modern McLaren, from the “entry-level” Sports Series models to the P1 hybrid hypercar. But it […]