McLaren's 2027-2028 Lineup: What's Confirmed, What Dealers Saw, and What's Still a Rumor

McLaren is preparing the broadest expansion of its lineup since the company began building road cars, and until recently almost everything we knew about it came from dealers rather than from McLaren itself. Automotive News has published two waves of reporting from a global dealer meeting held on November 11, 2025, at the McLaren Creation Centre in Bicester, England: a first round that month, and a second, more detailed round in September 2026. Between them, the reports describe a new mid-engine supercar, a first-ever SUV, and a 2+2 grand tourer.

On September 16, 2026, one of those three stopped being a rumor. McLaren confirmed on the record that it will build a performance SUV, due before 2030, as part of a £500 million UK investment from its owner, L'IMAD. It has still issued no press release about the P34 or the 2+2 GT, and it has not said whether the SUV it confirmed is the car dealers saw under the code P47.

That makes this page a tracker rather than a spec sheet. Here is what McLaren has actually confirmed on the record, what dealers reportedly saw behind closed doors, and where the line between the two sits today.

What McLaren Has Confirmed

The official layer is thinner than the rumor layer, but it grew substantially in September. CEO Nick Collins told Autocar in April 2026 that full-sized models of every new car McLaren will launch before 2030 have already been shown to dealers, and that all of those cars are planned around combustion powertrains. An electric McLaren, Collins said, will come only when customers want one, and he promised the company would begin to unpack its plan in public from summer 2026.

Two products went public first. In July 2026, McLaren revealed the 788HS, the final evolution of the supercar line that began with the 720S and ran through the 765LT and 750S. The official numbers: a 777-hp (788-ps) twin-turbo V8 with 590 lb-ft (800 Nm), zero to 62 mph (100 km/h) in a claimed 2.8 seconds, and production capped at 200 cars split evenly between coupe and Spider, each finished by McLaren Special Operations. McLaren has not announced 788HS pricing or a delivery date; Autocar has reported a figure of about £450,000. Then, at Monterey Car Week in August, McLaren showed the McL 6GT, a manual-transmission, V8-powered concept inspired by Bruce McLaren's unfinished M6GT project, and said a production version will follow in 2028 as a new tier of car beyond its core range.

The W1 is the other fixed point. The 1,258-hp hybrid hypercar was revealed back in October 2024, all 399 build slots sold out immediately, and deliveries are getting under way in 2026.

September 16: The SUV, £500 Million, and McLaren's Own Engines

The investment announcement is the first time McLaren has put a new model line on the record itself. Funded by L'IMAD, the Abu Dhabi government investor that now controls the company, the £500 million program covers a second vehicle assembly facility in the UK, an expansion of the McLaren Production Centre in Woking, and more capacity at the Composites Technology Centre in South Yorkshire that molds every McLaren chassis, alongside the Bicester design studio and a vehicle test facility in the Midlands. McLaren says the program will create at least 1,000 direct and indirect jobs by 2032 and double its UK manufacturing workforce, with up to 3,000 more positions across the supply chain; Autocar puts the combined figure at 4,000.

Two things in that announcement change the product picture. The first is the SUV itself: a "performance SUV," launching before the end of the decade, which McLaren frames as part of a portfolio built around the supercar rather than a volume play. The second is the engines. McLaren has never built its own — Ricardo assembles both the twin-turbo V8 and the Artura's V6 — and the program funds two new powertrains, engines and transmissions, designed and built in-house for a hybrid lineup.

COO Michael Straughan, speaking to Autocar, explained why a second plant is needed at all: "No longer will we be only rear-engined, rear-wheel-drive cars. There's going to be front-engined, and either four-wheel drive or perhaps rear-wheel drive in the future. It's very difficult off one assembly line, so we need another assembly line — wherever we decide to put that." He also suggested the SUV could keep McLaren's carbon-tub construction, though that is framed as a possibility rather than a decision. Woking built around 2,000 cars in 2025, a fraction of Ferrari or Lamborghini volumes, which is the arithmetic behind a second model line.

What the announcement did not include: a name, a launch date more precise than "before 2030," a powertrain specification, a location for the second factory, a price, or any link between the confirmed SUV and the P47 code used in dealer reporting.

The P34: The Supercar Dealers Say Arrives in 2027

According to the September Automotive News report, relayed by Motor1 and Car and Driver, the car known internally as the P34 is a two-door, mid-engine supercar built around a twin-turbo V6 hybrid powertrain with a combined output of 810 hp, with one dealer citing roughly 800 lb-ft (1,085 Nm) of torque. Both the engine and the gearbox are said to be developed in-house — a claim the September 16 engine program now makes more plausible, though McLaren has not tied the two together. The earlier November reporting put the figure at nearly 800 hp and described the system as a mild hybrid, so the exact character of the electrification is still unclear.

The P34 is reportedly longer than the Artura, styled with the McLaren F1 in mind, and finished with a more upscale cabin featuring nappa and aniline leather and a tempered-glass cover over the V6. Dealers were reportedly told to expect a starting price of about $313,000 and a 2027 on-sale date, with McLaren targeting 1,000 units in the first year. For context, Car and Driver listed the Artura at $265,400 and the 750S at $370,600 in late 2025, which would slot the P34 squarely between the two current mid-engine cars.

None of those figures comes from McLaren. Every number attached to the P34, including the output, the price, and the date, traces back to what dealers say they were shown.

The SUV, and the P47 Dealers Were Shown

McLaren has confirmed that an SUV is coming. What it looks like, when exactly it lands, and what drives it are still dealer accounts — and those accounts describe a car the company has never named.

Per Automotive News, dealers saw a full-size clay model of a car coded P47: McLaren's first with four doors and five seats, riding on 24-inch wheels, with proportions described as similar to a Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT but larger. The reported powertrain is a V8 hybrid with all-wheel drive, and one retailer specified it will not be a plug-in hybrid; the electric assistance is said to be tuned for performance rather than range. Attendees described a wagon-like silhouette with split headlights mounted flush with the body, a large rear spoiler and diffuser, and an indented spine running the length of the car.

Dealer timing for the P47 is 2028; McLaren's own wording is "before 2030." Those are compatible but not identical, and the company has not said the two cars are the same. The rivals are set either way: Lamborghini's Urus, the Aston Martin DBX, and Ferrari's Purosangue, which arrived in the US just under $400,000 and still built a multi-year order book.

A 2+2 GT, a New 750S Successor, and an Open W1

The dealer reporting sketches out the rest of the decade too. A front-engine, sedan-like grand tourer with a 2+2 layout is reportedly due in 2027 as the replacement for the GTS. A successor to the 750S is said to arrive in 2028 to face the Ferrari 849 Testarossa. And a convertible W1 with a three-piece removable hardtop is reportedly planned for 2028 as well. Notably, the rumored electric supercar was not shown to dealers at all, which lines up with Collins's public position that an EV is in development but not a near-term priority — and with Straughan's September framing that all-electric versions remain possible but need more development.

Why McLaren Is Doing This Now

The context is ownership. McLaren's car business was bought from Bahrain's Mumtalakat by CYVN Holdings in a deal agreed in late 2024; CYVN merged it with the British startup Forseven and installed Forseven's Nick Collins as CEO, and Autocar reports about £1.5 billion has gone into the company. CYVN has since been absorbed into L'IMAD, the Abu Dhabi government investment arm now behind the £500 million program, which has also cleared McLaren's automotive debt. "This isn't empty words — this is a firm plan, and we'll be held to task against the plan, and rightly so," Straughan told Autocar. Car and Driver notes the same ownership holds a controlling stake in Gordon Murray Technologies, and McLaren has said it will draw on both Forseven and GMT assets going forward.

The United States is central to the plan. Automotive News reports the U.S. now accounts for more than half of McLaren's global sales, and Collins sees room to grow the current network of 27 American dealers by five to ten stores over the next two years. The same September dealer meeting reporting describes a new corporate identity and a boutique showroom format to go with it. A five-seat SUV and a usable GT are the kinds of cars that expansion is meant to sell.

What We Don't Know Yet

• Official confirmation: McLaren confirmed a performance SUV on September 16 but has not tied it to the P47 code, and it has not acknowledged the P34 or the 2+2 GT in any form.
• Names: P34 and P47 are internal codes, not market names, and the confirmed SUV has no name at all.
• Prices: every figure so far, including the P34's reported $313,000 start, comes from dealer accounts, and 788HS pricing is also unannounced.
• Debut dates and venues: no reveal has been scheduled for any of the unannounced models, and the SUV has only a "before 2030" window.
• Production: McLaren says the SUV will be built in Britain, at a second vehicle assembly facility it has yet to locate.
• The new engines: two in-house hybrid powertrains are funded, but McLaren has not said their configuration, output, or which cars get them first.
• Hybrid details: the P34's system has been described as both a full hybrid and a mild hybrid across the two reporting waves.
• The EV: an electric McLaren exists as a program, per Collins, but has no timeline and was not shown to dealers.

What's Next

McLaren has now shown how it unpacks a plan: the 788HS reveal, the McL 6GT concept, and the September investment announcement all landed within months of Collins's summer promise. The next hard checkpoints are the location of the second assembly plant, the first technical detail on the in-house engines, a name or teaser for the SUV, 788HS pricing and first deliveries, the start of W1 customer cars reaching the road in numbers, and any first official teaser of the P34, which is the closest of the unannounced cars to its reported 2027 on-sale date. We will update this page as each of those lands.