Extreme McLaren Sabre leaked
Enhanced Senna gets all-new look, even more advanced aero and hybrid V8UPDATED 23/12/2020 10:30am: The McLaren Sabre has been officially revealed in and for the US, where just 15 examples will be available.
ORIGINAL ARTICLE PUBLISHED 22/12/2020: The ultra-exclusive McLaren Sabre has been leaked online months before you're supposed to see it, with images posted on Instagram overnight.
Developed internally under the 'BC-08' codename, a recent trademark application unearthed in June 2020 revealed the Woking-based car-maker planned to called the track-focused hypercar the 'Sabre'.
Last month, a clearer picture of what McLaren was hatching emerged when blueprints for the Sabre also appeared online, and now, thanks to cochespias, the whole car has been revealed.
Rumoured to be one of an ultra-limited run of 15 hypercars, the McLaren Sabre is thought to be the work of McLaren's MSO bespoke division.
Claimed to borrow its wild look from the McLaren Ultimate Vision GT concept from 2017, the Sabre is the result of hundreds of hours of wind tunnel testing and is believed to be a step up from the track-only McLaren Senna GTR.
Unlike the Senna GTR, the evidence of mules testing on public roads reveal that it will be road-legal.
Much of its innovation also stems from motorsport, with air-bending features like the central dorsal fin, aggressive front splitter, winglets and spoilers all looking like they've been borrowed from an LMP1 Le Mans endurance racer.
Speaking of which, the McLaren Sabre could provide the basis for an entry by the British car-maker into the 2022 Le Mans Daytona (LMDh) hypercar class in the World Endurance Championship, where it would do battle alongside similar hypercar entries from Toyota and Peugeot.
Under its rear bonnet, the new British hypercar will use a heavily revised version of the wild McLaren Speedtail’s 4.0-litre V8 hybrid powertrain that's rumoured to have been uprated to produce an incredible 858kW and 1280Nm.
With the latter, expect the McLaren hypercar to hit 100km/h in less than 2.5 seconds and top out at around 400km/h.
Set to make its debut in 2021, the McLaren Sabre is not a direct replacement for the P1. That car has been confirmed to arrive much later in 2025.
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