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Written by Stephen Dobie
McLaren has a new factory. It"s in Yorkshire, straddling the border between Sheffield and Rotherham, and it"s where the company"s carbon tubs will be made. Rather than cut a ribbon and serve some cake to open it up, however, McLaren used it as an excuse to show its new 789bhp Senna track special in action. There"s a carbon core in every new McLaren the sports cars use a MonoCell, the supercars and hypercars a stiffer MonoCage and up until now these have been built in Europe and brought across to Woking. When the Yorkshire factory is up and running, they"ll all be made in the north of England, raising the British materials that comprise a new McLaren from 50 to 58 per cent. It"s called the McLaren Composites Technology Centre MCTC for short, and not to be confused with the Woking base, MTC. McLaren gets the keys in April, and it should be churning out tubs by 2019, with up to 200 people being employed there.
Date written: 17 Jan 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 10587
McLaren has a new factory. It"s in Yorkshire, straddling the border between Sheffield and Rotherham, and it"s where the company"s carbon tubs will be made. Rather than cut a ribbon and serve some cake to open it up, however, McLaren used it as an excuse to show its new 789bhp Senna track special in action. There"s a carbon core in every new McLaren the sports cars use a MonoCell, the supercars and hypercars a stiffer MonoCage and up until now these have been built in Europe and brought across to Woking. When the Yorkshire factory is up and running, they"ll all be made in the north of England, raising the British materials that comprise a new McLaren from 50 to 58 per cent. It"s called the McLaren Composites Technology Centre MCTC for short, and not to be confused with the Woking base, MTC. McLaren gets the keys in April, and it should be churning out tubs by 2019, with up to 200 people being employed there.
Date written: 17 Jan 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 10587
