BBC Top Gear Magazine

The McLaren F1 is back... sort of

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Three-seater McLaren will join swelling ranks of hybrid hypercars This new sketch (above) gives us our first clues about the looks of McLaren’s homage to the F1, and its most powerful car ever. Low, sleek, slim, and lots of aerodynami­c surfaces. It looks fast.

In fact, McLaren boss Mike Flewitt says that the new three-seater, the BP23, will be the fastest McLaren ever. And the most powerful road McLaren ever. How powerful? Unimaginab­ly so. Both the V8 engine and the hybrid system will be more powerful than the P1’s. And when pulling together, they were 903bhp.

“The BP23 won’t be the fastest round a track. It’s not a track car. It’s a luxury hyper-GT.” The 0–62mph time won’t drop below the P1’s 2.8secs. Flewitt says that time can’t be beaten without having all-wheel drive.

The car has a new carbon tub, and a new dash, built around the central driving position. But it’s going to be an agonising wait. The first BP23 customer gets a car in 2019. There will be just 106 in all – the same number as F1s were built. “And there will be no Spiders or track versions. That’s it.”

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