Despite his remarkable achievements in motorsports, Bruce McLaren’s dreams of building a road-legal sports car didn’t come to fruition in his lifetime. The racing impresario’s untimely passing meant his three M6GTs never got past the prototype stage; it would take another two decades for a McLaren road car to see the light of day.
Fast forward to 1992, and the McLaren F1 moonshot proved so monumental that it remains the world’s fastest naturally aspirated road car. The next McLaren "1" car was the P1, which debuted in 2013 and joined the Ferrari LaFerrari and Porsche 918 Spyder as the so-called Holy Trinity of Hypercars.
