---
title: "The 2021 McLaren Artura Is Woking’s First Twin-Turbo V6 Hybrid Supercar"
description: "Numerical models are gone for the new era of electrified McLarens. They get real names."
date: "2020-11-24"
modified: "2020-11-24"
authors:
  - name: "Máté Petrány"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/mate-petrany"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/37807/the-2021-mclaren-artura-is-wokings-first-twin-turbo-v6-hybrid-supercar"
categories:
  - "McLaren News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "2021 McLaren Artura"
  - "artura"
  - "Coupe"
  - "hybrid"
  - "mclaren"
  - "McLaren Artura"
  - "McLaren Automotive"
  - "McLaren V6"
  - "Supercar"
---

# The 2021 McLaren Artura Is Woking’s First Twin-Turbo V6 Hybrid Supercar

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Following 2013's limited-edition McLaren P1 and the more recent Speedtail, Woking's first standard hybrid supercar is not a direct replacement of the current V8-powered Sports Series. With a new twin-turbo V6 and hybrid system onboard, the entry-level 2021 McLaren Artura will pack a bigger punch and will be priced accordingly, positioned closer to the Super Series above it.

Giving up on the horsepower-related nomenclature makes sense, knowing how McLaren has already produced a 600LT, a 620R, a 650S, a 675LT, a 720S, and a 765LT. The new Artura's combined output will certainly reach previous Super Series levels, so with the hybrid generation, it was time for a different naming system.

As a bonus, we already have an idea of how the 2021 McLaren Artura will look thanks to its [design patents leaking in October](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/37162/mclarens-first-v6-hybrid-supercar-leaks-via-patent-images>), and now we can further analyze what designer Rob Melville's team has come up with above McLaren's compact V6 powertrain. The answer is a Sports Series car that looks like it's already halfway to its inevitable Long Tail form.

![message-editor%2F1606224667929-mclaren-hybrid-patents-61.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1606224667929-mclaren-hybrid-patents-61.jpg>)
*2021 McLaren Artura, *McLaren Automotive**

The Artura uses McLaren's [new carbon fiber tub now made in-house](<https://www.thedrive.com/tech/35992/mclarens-upcoming-hybrid-supercars-will-sit-on-this-newly-developed-carbon-fiber-tub>) at the Sheffield plant, with McLaren CEO Mike Flewitt also promising a "cutting-edge driver interface." Compared to the outgoing 4.0-liter V8, McLaren's equally twin-turbocharged V6 paired with a single electric motor should offer improved torque response at low engine speeds. We can expect even faster acceleration times than what McLaren's already ultra-quick rear-drive cars could so far achieve.

![message-editor%2F1606225706414-nameofnewmclarenhphsupercarrevealed\_01.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1606225706414-nameofnewmclarenhphsupercarrevealed_01.jpg>)
**McLaren Automotive**

To offset the weight penalty of the hybrid system, McLaren has probably used more high-tech materials as well, since it claims to have applied weight-saving technologies throughout the chassis, body, and powertrain. That usually translates to parts made of titanium, magnesium, and carbon fiber. In [the most powerful series-production Ferrari](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/37607/the-960-hp-ferrari-sf90-spider-is-167-pounds-heavier-than-the-stradale-still-faster-than-la-ferrari>) so far, the SF90's electrified bits weigh 595 pounds. However, Maranello is already working on [its own lighter V6 hybrid](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/37740/ferrari-caught-testing-hybrid-v6-and-v12-powertrains-with-f8-tributo-test-mules>).

For 2021, McLaren's answer is the new Artura, Britain's latest mid-engine V6 hybrid supercar.

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## Author
As a fan of old cars, new cars, trains, planes, buses, and you-name-it, Máté can sometimes be seen driving an Autobianchi around Budapest, much to the amusement of the children, mostly. When not time-traveling, he continues to report from the future to his American colleagues, often talking about Lotus, Ozzy Osbourne, or both.

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