McLaren retires its entire range by 2028 with no successor confirmed
McLaren's three series cars all leave production within two years, and no replacement is announced
McLaren will stop building every car on its current price list by the end of 2028. Autocar reports that the GTS grand tourer winds down in 2027, the hybrid Artura follows in 2028, and the 750S is in the final stages of a life that began at Geneva in March 2017 as the 720S. McLaren has not confirmed any of it, and the only new McLarens with public dates are the 399 W1s, the 200 788HS and the McL 6GT due in 2028, none of them billed as a replacement for a series model.
The GTS goes first in 2027, eight years after the GT launched at 620 hp
The GTS is the first to go, with production expected to wind down in 2027. The car arrived in May 2019 as the McLaren GT, a 620 hp mid-engined coupe with a glazed rear deck that could swallow a set of golf clubs above the V8, and became the GTS in December 2023 with 635 hp and 10 kg less weight, at 1,520 kg. It never resolved the contradiction in its name: a grand tourer with the engine behind the seats has a footwell where the luggage should be. Autocar understands the front-engined architecture McLaren is developing for its SUV could carry a four-seat GT in the Bentley Continental mould, which would be the first McLaren road car with an engine ahead of the driver.
The Artura leaves in 2028, six years after deliveries that were promised for 2021
The Artura follows in 2028, six years after the first customer cars. McLaren revealed the 680 hp V6 hybrid on 17 February 2021 and promised deliveries that year; chip shortages and software faults pushed the first handovers into the second half of 2022, and the car did not reach 700 hp until the autumn 2024 update. It sells in roughly the same numbers as the 750S, which makes it half of McLaren's volume, and in June Australian dealers were clearing Artura stock with A$100,000 off. Automotive News, citing a McLaren retailer, reports a hybrid V6 successor codenamed P34 for 2027 at around £230,000, some £30,000 above the Artura. McLaren has not acknowledged the car.
The 750S carries 720S bones from Geneva 2017, and the 788HS is the send-off
The 750S remains on sale with no end date, but McLaren has already built its farewell. The 788HS, capped at 200 cars, was billed in July as the final evolution of the platform that debuted at Geneva on 7 March 2017 with 720 hp, and Autocar reads that as a sign the 750S will not run deep into 2027. The same dealer sources put a 750S replacement in 2028, aimed at the Ferrari 849 Testarossa that replaced the SF90 in September 2025. Every core McLaren since the 12C of 2011 has sat on a carbon tub with a Ricardo-built engine; the successors get two hybrid engines McLaren designs and builds itself, and chief operating officer Michael Straughan says they need not be a V6 and a V8.
Lamborghini renewed Revuelto, Urus SE and Temerario in 17 months, showing each successor before the old car stopped
Lamborghini has already run the play McLaren is attempting. It showed the Revuelto in March 2023, the Urus SE in April 2024 and the Temerario in August 2024, replacing its entire range in 17 months, and each new car was public before the outgoing one stopped. It then delivered 10,747 cars in 2025. McLaren has so far confirmed the reverse order: the SUV and the £500 million behind it are official, the two engines are official, and the three cars that pay the bills until then have no announced heirs. The SUV itself is dated to 2028 by the dealers Automotive News spoke to, and to some time before 2030 by Straughan.
2,000 McLarens a year, more than half of them American, carry the transition
The company doing this built around 2,000 cars in 2025, against a 2018 peak of 4,806 and a Track25 plan that promised 6,000 by the same year. More than half of those cars go to the United States, where 27 dealers are asking for five to ten more stores over two years and will be selling a range with a published expiry date to do it. Owner L'IMAD, the Abu Dhabi investor that took over CYVN Holdings, has committed £500 million, a second assembly site and at least 1,000 jobs by 2032. What it has not published is the order in which the money becomes cars.
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A model cycle at McLaren has stretched to a decade. The 720S was new in March 2017 and its descendant is still the flagship in September 2026; Ferrari changed its equivalent car twice in that time, from 488 to F8 to 296, and Lamborghini replaced everything it makes without a gap. Retiring the range is the easy half of a Lamborghini-style renewal. The hard half is the part Sant'Agata did first: putting the next car on a stand while the old one is still earning, so that 2,000 buyers a year have something to order rather than something to wait for.
The first successor has to be public before the last GTS is built. If the P34 appears in 2027 at a price near £230,000, McLaren has managed the handover; if 2027 closes with the 788HS as the newest car on its price list, a 2,000-car company will have spent a full year selling cars whose end it has already read about in the press.
