---
title: "McLaren’s New Three-Seat Hybrid Hypercar Will Be the Most Powerful McLaren Yet"
description: "But don't call it a McLaren F1 successor."
date: "2017-03-22"
modified: "2017-03-22"
authors:
  - name: "Aaron Brown"
    job_title: "Staff Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/aaron-brown"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/8529/mclarens-new-three-seat-hybrid-hypercar-will-be-the-most-powerful-mclaren-yet"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "bp23"
  - "hybrid"
  - "Hypercar"
  - "mclaren"
  - "Supercar"
---

# McLaren’s New Three-Seat Hybrid Hypercar Will Be the Most Powerful McLaren Yet

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The upcoming hyper-GT three-seater McLaren hypercar will be the most powerful and most aerodynamic street car made by the British automaker yet, according to a press release from the company.

The car, which has been assigned the internal codename "BP23," will have a hybrid drive system that works with a 4.0-liter twin-turbocharged V8 motor. According to McLaren head Mike Flewitt, the car will be the ["fastest" McLaren road car yet](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/8181/mclarens-three-seat-hypercar-will-be-its-fastest-street-car-yet>).

Only 106 cars will be built, and all have already been sold.

Along with the other information in the press release, McLaren dropped a new teaser graphic of the upcoming hypercar. We can't really tell much from the image, but we do see an extremely swoopy rear end and a long swooping center roof line.

At the Geneva Motor Show earlier this month, Flewitt explained to *Top Gear* that the new car would not be a successor to the '90s F1 supercar. That honor was reserved for the no-longer-in-production P1.

"The P1 is the successor to the F1, and in a few years there will be a successor to the P1."

## Author
Aaron was previously a contributing writer with Jalopnik and has also written for Business Insider covering cars. When he's not in the office writing the news, you'll probably find him thrashing a beater car around a RallyCross.

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