New McLaren McL 6GT: Inside the design studio reinventing the British supercar

Kemal Curic is a man on a mission. His goal: to reinvent McLaren and reclaim its seat at the supercar top table. For a car designer, it’s both a dream job and a daunting one. However, the McL 6GT (pictured above) suggests Curic has hit the ground running. The retro concept was the star of Monterey Car Week this summer, prompting McLaren to announce a run of 500 customer cars – due in 2028. To learn more about how the McL 6GT took shape, I met with Curic at McLaren’s new design studio in Bicester, Oxfordshire. Here, aided by old-fashioned clay models and new-fangled augmented reality tech, I got a glimpse into the British company’s future. The McLaren story so far The tail lights echo a motif from the McLaren F1 McLaren Automotive has achieved a lot in 16 short years. From a standing start in 2010, the original MP4-12C took the fight straight to Ferrari. Just two years later, it was followed by the epochal hybrid P1, then a succession of lauded ‘Longtail’ (LT) models and