McLaren Teases New 2021 High-Performance Hybrid Supercar

McLaren has shared images of its all-new High-Performance Hybrid (HPH) supercar as it enters the final stages of testing.

McLaren has teased with new images of its “next-generation” High-Performance Hybrid (HPH) supercar set to be introduced in the first half of 2021.

Photographed undergoing its final stages of development and testing, including road driving tests, the new HPH supercar marks the first series-production hybrid vehicle to be produced by McLaren and features an all-new V6 petrol engine with a pure EV road driving mode.

“This all-new McLaren supercar is the distillation of everything we have done to date; all that we have learned and achieved,” shares Mike Flewitt, CEO, McLaren Automotive. “This is a new kind of McLaren for a new era, an extraordinary drivers’ car that offers blistering performance as well as an all-electric range capable of covering most urban journeys. We see this new McLaren as a true ‘next generation’ supercar and cannot wait to show it to customers.”

The High-Performance Hybrid supercar will also be the first McLaren built on a new carbon fiber structure known as the McLaren Carbon Lightweight Architecture (MCLA). Optimized for High-Performance Hybrid powertrains and latest-generation driver technologies, the new MCLA architecture allows McLaren to push boundaries with their lightweight chassis technologies founded in the brand’s motorsport origins.

“For us, light-weighting and high-performance hybrid technology go hand-in-hand to achieve better performance as well as more efficient vehicles,” explained Flewitt. “Our expertise in lightweight composites and carbon fibre manufacturing, combined with our experience in cutting-edge battery technologies and high-performance hybrid propulsion systems, makes us ideally placed to deliver uncompromised levels of electrified high-performance driving that until now have simply been unattainable.”

Designed, developed, and produced in the UK at the £50m state-of-the-art McLaren Composites Technology Centre at Sheffield, the all-new flexible carbon structure will be the foundation of the next generation of McLaren hybrid supercars coming to market over the coming years.

The all-new High-Performance Hybrid supercar will fit into the lineup between the GT and the 720S in the McLaren range and is the beginning of McLaren’s electrification following the end of production of its Sports Series range.