McLaren Cars
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McLaren Cars Ltd was formed by the TAG McLaren Group in March 1989 to develop and manufacture the finest cars in whatever class might be addressed and to enhance and reinforce the McLaren image.
The McLaren marque first emerged in 1964, founded by New Zealander Bruce McLaren. McLaren went on to win the Can-Am sports car Championship for five successive years 1967-71, the Indianapolis '500' three times and the Formula One World Championship titles twice before, in 1980 merging with present Group managing Director, Ron Dennis and his Project Four company to form McLaren International.
The TAG McLaren Group under which all McLaren Group companies operate today, was formed when the TAG Group took a major shareholding in McLaren International in 1985.
As a direct consequence of the McLaren Formula One Teams domination of the 1988 World Championship season, Ron Dennis, Mansour Ojjeh, Creighton Brown and Gordon Murray decided to form a road car company. Thus McLaren Cars was founded and utilising the Groups rich basis of technology, experience and specialist facilities, Technical Director Gordon Murray and his team set about designing the worlds ultimate supercar, the McLaren F1.
Since then the Company has produced two further variants of the F1, the F1 LM and the F1 GT, as well as the Le Mans conquering F1 GTR sports racing car. In 1998, McLaren Cars together with McLaren International designed and produced the worlds first Formula One based two-seater car, the MP4-98T as part of the Adrenalin Programme.
Today McLaren Cars is firmly established as Britains' pre-eminent specialist automotive manufacturer, producing cars with leading edge technology and innovative design.
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