McLaren begins a new phase of their expansion program by inviting UK prime minister David Cameron over to open new production site.
The new site boosts the produciton of MP4-12C supercar, now that all its software glitches are debugged! McLaren will also make works and customer GT3 racecar operations for their first full season of competition in 2012 here.
By 2014 McLaren wants to increase its annual production to 4,500 cars per year.
McLaren also has plans for its Formula 1 division:
– Completing a four-day technical test in Abu Dhabi with Gary Paffett and Oliver Turvey
– Freighting spares and chassis to Brazil for the final race of the 2011 season in Sao Paulo
– Preparing build-work on next year’s car, MP4-27 – we are nine months into the development programme and have already stored 18,918 individual components from more than 3,000 different works orders and signed off more than 5,500 technical drawings.