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McLaren has confirmed its entry into the Indian market. The British supercar maker will open its first dealership in Mumbai in October this year. This will be McLaren’s 41st store with India a key part of the company’s global expansion plans. McLaren will bring its entire Supercar range in India which includes the 765LT (coupe and spyder versions), 720S (coupe and spyder versions) and its first ever high-performance hybrid – the Artura. McLaren 720S Coupe (Photo: McLaren) Indian customers will also be offered the McLaren…

A 1955 Ferrari 410 Sport Spider sold for $22 million Saturday at an RM Sotheby’s auction in Monterey, Calif., as collectors race to buy cars priced like Picassos.The cherry-red race car was the closely watched star of Monterey Car Week, a series of nearly $500 million in glitzy car auctions that coincide with a car competition known as the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Collectively, the weekend serves as the equivalent of the Kentucky Derby for car aficionados, with events running through Sunday. The sale comes as…

You, along with millions of others, may already have driven this supercar in its original, virtual form as part of the Gran Turismo video game series. Now, it's coming to life in the flesh, as a sold-out limited edition with a screaming V10 engine. In the video game, it's called the McLaren Ultimate Vision Gran Turismo, or VGT, and you can zoom it around the game's many tracks alongside a bevvy of other fantastical VGT concepts from more than 25 other manufacturers. These came about when Gran Turismo founder Kazunori…

Actor Kartik Aryan recently received a McLaren GT supercar as a gift from Bhusan Kumar, the owner of the T-Series. Such gifts can attract a lot of taxes and here is a video by CA Sahil Jain that explains how much tax he will need to pay for receiving the car as a gift. But will he really need to pay so much money as tax? Well, here is an explainer. Rs 2 crore tax on McLaren GT According to the video, if the McLaren GT is gifted by T-Series to Kartik Aryan because of the success of the movie Bhul Bhooliya, the actor…

Over the years, OnePlus has released a small number of special edition versions of its smartphones, and one of the coolest of them has to be the McLaren Edition (Review) of the OnePlus 6T. This was the phone that debuted the company's Warp Charge 30 fast charging technology, and there was no beating that slick paint job at the time. OnePlus has now launched a McLaren Edition of the OnePlus 7T Pro at a price of Rs. 58,999 and here's a quick look at what's new and different compared to the standard version.OnePlus 7T Pro…

OnePlus dominated the attention of smartphone and television enthusiasts through September and October, launching a handful of new products across both segments. The second of two major launch events was centred around the OnePlus 7T Pro and OnePlus 7T Pro McLaren Edition. The latter is the latest in a line of special edition devices that started with the OnePlus 5T Star Wars Edition back in late 2017.This is the second time that OnePlus has worked with McLaren on a special edition smartphone, after the OnePlus 6T McLaren…

Author and journalist Leah McLaren was a precocious 13-year-old when she broke down at her mother’s kitchen table one night in Toronto and described a harrowing sexual experience at a pool party. Her mother, Cessie, brewed her a mug of herbal tea, added a slug of whisky, and countered it with a tale of her own. At just 12, Cessie had been raped by her riding instructor. The Horseman, she called him. Having groomed her for assault, he then persuaded her that she was in love with him, continuing his abuse until she was…

There’s a reason the term “daily driver sports car” exists. It’s because typically, purpose-built performance cars suffer from an inherent lack of usability: they’re loud, uncomfortable and they require pristine driving conditions. What’s more, they’re often bereft of the accessories we’ve grown used to, and when they’re included, they’re usually subpar.  These might sound like small concessions for the chance to drive a top-tier performance vehicle, but try spending upwards of $200,000 on a car that makes you…

The only Indian racing driver currently competing in the FIA Formula 2 Championship with Prema Racing, Jehan Daruvala will have his first experience of driving a Formula 1 car. The Indian young gun will be taking part in a private McLaren test session at Silverstone, which will be hosting the F1 British Grand Prix from July 1-3. The test is intended to help Daruvala inch closer to the ultimate single-seater motorsport. For the test, Daruvala will be piloting McLaren’s MCL35M, which made its debut in 2021. Daruvala’s…

Kartik Aryan’s recent movie Bhool Bhulaiya 2 was a success at Box Office. Celebrating the success of the new movie, Bhushan Kumar, who produced the movie gifted a brand-new McLaren GT to the actor. It is the first-ever McLaren GT to reach the Indian market. Pictures of Bhushan Kumar and Kartik Aryan with the new car are doing rounds on social media platforms. Kartik has received a beautiful-looking McLaren GT finished in classic orange colour. The wheels are done in Gloss Black and there are Azores callipers. Also…