McLaren’s next hypercar is expected to feature a bespoke V8 and a lightweight hybrid system. The brand has confirmed the name of its new flagship as W1, a nod to its storied heritage. The highly anticipated successor to the P1 is scheduled to launch on October 6.

McLaren Automotive has revealed that the car set to succeed the P1 at the top of the brand’s performance tree will be called the

McLaren is set to reveal its next ultimate car on October 6, a decade after the arrival of the legendary P1, successor to the F1.

McLaren is readying itself for the launch of a new flagship ‘1’ car, which it has now confirmed will be revealed on 6 October at 13:00 BST. It follows the legendary McLaren F1 from the nineties and its successor, the hybrid P1, which launched in 2013.

Realizing that the McLaren P1 was launched in 2013 and that was 11 years ago. I still remember when the P1 was the pinnacle of automotive performance. The hypercar’s hybrid powertrain and active aero felt space-age at the time,

A decade on from the P1, pictured above, McLaren is preparing to announce a successor to its first hybrid hypercar. The British supercar maker published a teaser video this week (25 September) asking “what makes a ‘1’ car?

The roughly $2 million plug-in hybrid succeeds the iconic McLaren P1 at the top of the brand's Ultimate Series lineup.

It's been more than a decade since McLaren P1 production began, and it might be time for a successor. McLaren just put up a video about its "1" cars, the F1 and P1, with various employees from the brand talking about what makes them so special.

Hard as it may be to believe — in part because the automaker continues to find ways to celebrate it — it's been almost nine years since production wrapped on the McLaren P1 hypercar. It certainly doesn't hurt that the P1 is as exotic and thrilling as it was a decade ago,