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Next to the production facility, there is the MTC which houses the other departments and companies within the McLaren Group. They consists of Racing, Automotive, Marketing, Electronics, Applied Technologies and Absolute Taste, a catering company. All are based at MTC and are accompanied by a wonderful display of historical racing and sports cars. In the corridors we even came across a series of McLaren sports and motorsports cars that are currently used at events and car shows. <\/p>\n
In less than fifty meters distance, we spotted four McLaren F1 sports cars, three of them racers and one long tail version, and historical F1 cars from Prost, Senna, Lauda and Hamilton. The amazing collection is kept driving by the original mechanics inside the MTC. Unfortunately, we were not allowed to shoot any photos, because the Formula 1 teams development team was working on their latest car in the workshop which is completely visible from the main entrance and corridors sharing the same type of cleanliness and openness as the MPC.<\/p>\n
The McLaren premise in Woking share the true meaning of future car development and production. The combination between race heritage and development in the MTC, and the production of road-legal sports cars in the MPC make it a place you have to put on your wish list. The architecture is one-of-a-kind and gave us the feeling we just stepped out of the latest Hollywood science fiction movie. The only way you are put back onto the ground is when you experience they still make sports cars with four wheels which touch the tarmac underneath you. Other than that, McLaren Automotive offers a world you can hardly experience anywhere else in the automotive world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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