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McLaren’s Senna GTR Is Sold Out

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26 Mar 2018, 12:53 UTC · by Mircea Panait
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The Senna GTR is McLaren’s best track tool ever. More focused than the road-going Senna, the GTR totals 75 examples, that's all! And guess what? Demand is more than double that, with McLaren more or less confirming that the newcomer is sold out.
38 photos“We can say with some certainty that it’s sold out,” a company spokesperson told Autocar. What that means is, McLaren Automotive will cash in at least 90 million pounds sterling. That’s because the Senna GTR retails at £1.2 million as standard, and heaven only knows how much the MSO treatment adds to the price.
Adding to the intrigue, the Senna GTR presented at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show isn’t even the finished product. It’s a concept that previews the real deal, which will be hand-assembled in Woking by McLaren Special Operations starting from 2019.
The track-only version “will have more power, more grip and more downforce” than the Senna. Speaking of the road-going model, McLaren announced that production is limited to 500 vehicles, each costing £750,000 including taxes. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but the 800-horsepower Senna is sold out too.
Notice the go-faster bits and bobs adorning the body shell, including the XXL-sized rear wing and stupendous aerodynamic diffuser? Working as one, these pieces help the GTR produce 1,000 kilograms (approximately 2,205 pounds) of downforce. The air going around, through the vents, and the air pushing down on the vehicle enables the Senna GTR to post “the quickest McLaren circuit lap times outside Formula 1.”
Were you expecting anything else from the most extreme McLaren ever conceived? After all, Honda-powered McLaren was a nothing less than a running joke in Formula 1. The Renault hybrid power unit in the MCL33 isn’t up to the job either.
As a successor to the Le Mans-winning F1 GTR from the 1990s, the Senna GTR ticks all the right boxes, and then some. But the best is yet to come, with McLaren set to unveil the three-seat BP23 Hyper-GT by the end of 2018. The descendant of the road-going F1 will be capable of exceeding 243 mph (391 km/h) on full song.

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Chrysler 300, Dodge Charger, Challenger Production On Hold Amid Supplier Strike

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4 May 2018, 7:00 UTC · by Mircea Panait
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Although they’re as old as dirt, the Chrysler 300, Dodge Charger, and Challenger continue to roll off the assembly line in Brampton, Ontario. Except they aren’t at the present moment because of Lear, which announced that it going to close its Ajax, Ontario-based facility following a strike over a labor dispute.
88 photosThe strike started last Saturday (April 28th), and as the headline suggests, it has disrupted the Fiat Chrysler plant in Brampton. That’s because all three rear-drive vehicles are equipped with seats produced by Lear in Ajax on a just-in-time basis.
The nature of the supply stream is what forced Fiat Chrysler to halt production for the time being, as there are no seats left to install in the LX platform-based 300, Charger, and Challenger. To make matters worse, the automotive supplier sent a letter to the chairperson of the Canadian plant that confirms the facility’s closure.
“The closure will take effect as soon as practical but not later than the conclusion of the current programs.” Unifor Local 222 didn’t receive the news well, of course, describing the state of affairs as a capitalist class war. Whichever of the two sides you choose to take, the closure will force Lear to lay off more than 300 workers.
If Fiat Chrysler can’t find another supplier in a timely fashion, the stoppage of production could prove an issue for the dealership network. Even though there’s plenty of inventory at U.S. dealers, customers who are waiting for a custom build could be in for a nasty surprise. Adding insult to injury, Dodge has just started to tease the 2019 Challenger, the final overhaul of the third-generation Challenger.
Lear’s factory in Ajax was shut down in 2009 as well, when General Motors closed the Oshawa pickup truck plant in Ontario, Canada. The facility reopened in October 2010 after Lear won the contract to supply the Brampton facility. On the other hand, the workers were forced to agree on a 40% cut of their hourly wages compared to what they were being paid when Oshawa Truck Assembly was still around.
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