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McLaren P1 GTR Race Car Debuts Before Geneva Launch

The famous race-car or track-oriented car manufacturing company McLaren has released its production-ready P1 GTR car ahead of its public debut at the next month commencing Geneva Motor Show 2015. This car has been described by the company as “best driver's car in the world on track” as it's lightweight, swift and powerful as well. McLaren has developed it as the hybrid version with an electric motor which takes the total power output to the 1000 PS. Now this is something very interesting for a car that is race-track oriented. The car is developed using carbon fiber and aluminum for body, titanium for wheels and polycarbonate as well.

 

It's powered by a 3.8 Litre V8 twin-turbocharged engine producing 800 PS power and an electric motor that produces 200 PS power to make the combination hit 1000 PS mark. This new version is 80 mm wider and 50 mm lower than the road-legal P1 car with 19 inch titanium alloy wheels. It has large wing at the rear which is responsible for the 10% increased downforce. The other things which have made this car 50 KG lighter are polycarbonate windows, titanium alloy wheels and polycarbonate windows as well.

 

Well, the car does look promising in every expect which has made sure that it will surely lure a lot of visitors or potential buyers at the Geneva Motor Show 2015 event from March 5-15. Stay tuned with us to get more information about this event and the cars.