McLaren expands supercargamma with the P15?

Posted on 26-01-2014 at 10:58 pm by maru – 17 Comments”

Should it all just a little bit more than the McLaren MP4-12C, but you will find the P1 to be rough? The P15 is probably something for you.

For every budget there is a supercar, looks like McLaren is saying. In 2015, the P13 on the market, with its 450 hp will look up to big brother, the 12C, and also the gap between the 12C and P1 will now be filled with a newcomer.

It will take some time before we see the P15, as it is provisionally called, welcome. However, promises the manufacturer the same 3,8-liter twin-turbo V8 will be used as in the 12C, P1 and P13. Of course, with a major update compared to the 12C.

What is possible will change are the techniques used for the monocoque. For now, there will carbon fiber be used like this also will be applied to the current street-legal car, but in the long process of development there may still be a lot of change. After all, the technology is not standing still.

The preliminary price tag of P15 is set at up to 400,000 pounds, more than 480.000 euro. For the ‘budget’-McLaren, the P13, there is ‘only’ 120,000 pounds (145.000 euros) consideration.

McLaren wants every year something new on the market, and this seems to them to succeed. This year is an improved 12C introduced and the P13 is for the next year in the planning. Is 2016 the year of the P15? We are waiting for more details. (via Autocar)