McLaren opens the door to its most unexpected car in the electric era

McLaren will face the next five years with maximum motivation and with deep changes in its sports car range. And all this after some difficult years, with many doubts and uncertainty, with financial and profitability issues hovering over the British brand. Now everything aspires to be different.

After being fully acquired by CYVN Holdings from Abu Dhabi, and the Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company, the sovereign wealth fund of Bahrain, and after the merger with the British electric vehicle startup Forseven, there is much to discuss in Woking.

There are great news expected in the company, where electrification will finally take center stage and where completely new concepts never seen before in the British brand are anticipated. Will it be the first SUV? It could be.

The confirmed details of the new McLaren

The new CEO of McLaren is Nick Collins, who took over from Michael Leiters, and who had some words for the British magazine Car Magazine. In this interview, he revealed some details of a model whose arrival is confirmed, but of which hardly anything is known.

In line with the rumors that have emerged recently, McLaren could finally make the arrival of its first SUV model, or super SUV a reality. If Ferrari has the Purasangue, Lamborghini the Urus, Bentley the Bentayga, or Rolls-Royce the Cullinan, why can't McLaren have its own model?

What is clear is that McLaren will go beyond its current range of supercars, looking for something new: "Surely we will see something with more than two seats, but that still leaves us in quite a broad territory. And as I said, even in the territory of two seats, we could have much more diversity," Collins assured.

The firm based in Woking wants to enter "different segments" and, whether with two or four doors, it is clear that in the future McLaren will be able to accommodate more than two people. And as we said, electrification will begin to take a relevant role.

McLaren has been one of the most reluctant brands at this point: they do not contemplate an electric supercar in the short or medium term, as the market and buyers of vehicles of these characteristics are not interested, for now, in pure electric technology.

However, the fact that its owner CYVN Holdings also owns 20 percent of the Chinese firm NIO, one of the most recognized brands in its market in the field of electric cars, opens the doors wide for McLaren.

"We will see NIO components in McLarens much sooner than you think, even in the current range. We have been working with them to make a better and faster McLaren, one built in less time," concludes the brand's CEO, who also assured that he already has preliminary sketches of all the new McLaren models that will be launched from now until the end of the decade. We are eager to know all the details.

Fuente: Car Magazine