Just behind the driver’s seat in the W1 is the most powerful engine McLaren has ever produced. Though, to be fair, we would expect nothing else from a car that’s meant to take over as the top dog.

We're halfway through a new decade, which means it's time for a new McLaren hypercar. Enter the W1, the plug-in-hybrid successor to the beloved P1. "Equally at home on road and track," the W1 is the ...

The launch of a car like the McLaren W1 comes with lots of big numbers. For example, 1258 horsepower and 2200 pounds of downforce. It also prompts plenty of questions, the primary one being: how? To ...

Another hypercar with an electrified powertrain. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. But what about one promising over 1200 horsepower and oodles of Formula One tech derived from its winning race ...

For a car with such an abbreviated name, the McLaren W1 packs a vast amount of engineering tech. It’s also more advanced in some key areas than a contemporary Formula One car. That’s one hell of a USP ...

Every street McLaren since the F1 in the 1990s has been, of course, a supercar. But now the British company is hitting a new and higher mark with its W1, which has a 1,258-horsepower hybrid drivetrain ...

Deep in the shadowy recesses of Jay Leno's Garage, two Brits pull a matte black sheet off a svelte supercar. The McLaren W1's nose emerges, more nautical than aquiline, with little fanfare and no ...

McLaren achieves new extremes with its W1 hypercar, a hybrid mid-engine RWD sports car built in the spirit of the brand’s previous flagships. Designed ultimately for uncompromising performance, the W1 ...

The launch of a car like the McLaren W1 comes with lots of big numbers. For example, 1258 horsepower and 2200 pounds of downforce. It also prompts plenty of questions, the primary one being: how? To ...