10 years on, McLaren celebrates the launch of the P1 and the start of the hybrid hypercar era.
There’s never quite been a motor show like it before or since. In Switzerland 10 years ago - back when the Geneva show was the biggest deal around and actually- the McLaren P1 was revealed. The first McLaren hypercar since the F1, it promised a whole new world of performance possibilities thanks to electrification. It would have been a big debut on its own, but Geneva 2013 didn’t become legend for just one hybrid hypercar with basically a thousand horsepower.
Even now, with the EV hypercars boasting twice the power and raising the bar yet further, the P1 is an incredible engineering feat. We’re still here in 2023 whingeing about hybrids that weigh too much, and the McLaren came in at under 1,500kg DIN with a little bit of EV range from its 4.7kWh battery that the Ferrari lacked. It’s lighter even than, itself admirably slender for a PHEV supercar.
It was a raw, stripped out, uncompromising sports car in the best British tradition, only one with a 737hp, twin-turbo V8. And a 179hp electric motor to help it along. And the ability to reach 186mph in 16.5 seconds. No wonder all 375 sold out so fast; the McLaren Production Centre built every single one between September 2013 and December 2015, with each one taking 17 days from start to finish.
The P1’s numbers remain staggering 10 years later, because nothing else like this existed before 2013 - and then three cars did. We’ve subsequently seen a Race mode in cars like the Ford GT, but a setting that dropped the car five centimetres, stiffened the springs by 300 per cent and made more than 2g in corners possible was science fiction back then. 600kg of downforce at 160mph wasn’t to be sniffed at, either.
Anyway, we digress. The McLaren P1 was a spectacular hypercar a decade ago, and time has surely only further burnished its reputation. That its legacy continues in the Artura - the McLaren High Performance Hybrid strategy in slightly more attainable form - will only enhance its standing.
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