Taking Our 60th Summer by Storm

The 2010s brought another new era at McLaren, with the launch of McLaren Automotive. McLaren had made road-going supercars before, but the new division was created to build what would soon become a family of models, from the original MP4-12C to some of the most extreme hypercars ever created.

In the year that we celebrate McLaren’s 60th anniversary, Auckland University has awarded our founder, Bruce McLaren, an honorary degree for his contributions to engineering at a ceremony held at the McLaren Technology Centre (MTC) in Woking, England.

Hard to believe now, but in the 1990s McLaren's home was still a small industrial park on the outskirts of Woking near London, with the company occupying 18 different sites across the town. However, Team Principal Ron Dennis had ambitions to give McLaren a new global HQ that was equal to its successes on road and track.

The 1990s were another extraordinary decade for McLaren, not least because a new road car division grew out of the racing team, deploying the expertise and design principals that had won McLaren so many world titles over the years

McLaren won many races and titles in other decades, but it was the 1980s that would see the Formula 1 team’s longest run of success, when McLaren took no fewer than five drivers’ titles and four constructors’ championships

After making an incredibly strong start in the 1960s, it was during the 1970s that the McLaren team really found its feet in motorsport, achieving success in a variety of series