McLaren says more than 500 pieces of carbon fiber are laser-cut and assembled in 72 pre-forms; these make up 11 subassemblies that come together to make the finished tub. It's not an entirely ...

Specifically, it’s McLaren’s new hunk of carbon fiber, and it’s high tech to the max. McLaren says this new structure will be the basis of all hybrid supercars it produces in the future ...

McLaren's new Sheffield plant will have an annual capacity of 10,000 carbon fiber monocoque chassis per year.

Carbon fiber tubs aren’t new to McLaren; in fact, every one of its cars has started with a carbon fiber chassis since McLaren built the M6GT in 1981. McLaren.

McLaren started using carbon fiber 40 years ago on its Formula One cars. ... In the future, the company expects it could ...

Here’s our first official look at the car that will eventually replace the McLaren 650S—well, its carbon fiber under-bits, anyway. Called the Monocage II, this ultra-light, ultra-rigid ...

W hen McLaren Cars became McLaren Automotive, and released the MP4-12C, it was back with a vengeance. Putting its decades of ...

McLaren announced Wednesday that it has opened a second manufacturing facility, its £50 million ($65 million USD) Composites Technology Center in Yorkshire, England. The ribbon-cutting ceremony ...

A decade later, McLaren is launching version 2.0 of the company’s product line, with a new hybrid-electric V6 powertrain bolted into an all-new carbon fiber chassis tub structure. The vehicle ...

McLaren says that at 3062 pounds in its lightest form, the 750S coupe weighs up to 66 pounds less than the 720S. That's the advantage of a carbon-fiber chassis and a conventional non-hybrid ...

McLaren , a company known for its quality, fastidiousness and currently mediocre Formula 1 team, is moving the production of its carbon fiber monocoque in-house at a new facility in Yorkshire ...

McLaren is open to the idea of making carbon fiber structures for other automakers once its new plant in Sheffield, England is operational.Speaking at the recent Goodwood Festival of Speed ...