McLaren’s Future Hybrid Supercars Will Have A V8 Heart – SlashGear

Hybrid vehicles are obviously a large part of McLaren’s future plans. While hybrid powertrains are most closely associated with fuel economy, their motors can also be used to give standard combustion engines a not-insignificant boost in performance. Last year McLaren launched the Artura, a production hybrid supercar that can be yours for just shy of a quarter of a million dollars.

Unlike the vehicles that came before it, and the hybrids that will follow the new deal with Ricardo, the Artura was fitted with a V6 instead of a V8. While bigger sometimes means better, the loss of two cylinders didn’t put too much of a dent in performance. It will still go from zero to 60 mph in just three seconds and hit a top speed of 205 mph. Alone, the motor will produce 94 horsepower and can get the vehicle to 81 mph on its own. Add the 3-liter engine in and you get another 577 horsepower, bringing the total up to 671. McLaren is already getting a staggering amount of power from what is a relatively small supercar engine, so who knows how far it can go when it starts pumping out V8-powered hybrids.