McLaren CEO Michael Leiters confirmed in an interview that the British automaker is working on its first SUV and developing an electric supercar.
. That’s not the only exciting vehicle the company has in development. It’s also hard at work on an all-electric hypercar.During his conversation with the magazine, Leiters, who took on his current role in the summer of 2022, made clear that McLaren is amaker first and foremost. The company, fresh off losing $1.1 billion last year, is ready to expand the breadth of its offerings, though.
“To unlock our full potential as a company, we believe there is a second stage, to enlarge and expand our lineup beyond the segment where we are today,” the executive told the magazine. “We have called this ‘shared performance,’ because you can share the performance with more people than you can have in a McLaren today.”
Leiters did not go into too much detail about the company’s “shared performance vehicle,” or SPV, but hinted that it would be built in collaboration with another automaker and feature a hybrid powertrain instead of an all-electric setup as had. This means the vehicle, when it arrives, will likely utilize another marque’s core architecture but feature a McLaren powertrain like thereports that McLaren has discussed teaming up with BMW in the past.
Leiters did not refer to a timetable for either vehicle. Regardless, it certainly sounds like fans of McLaren, which is nowBryan Hood is a digital staff writer at Robb Report.
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