If you were into motor racing before the 1990s, you knew exactly who McLaren was, but nobody was driving a McLaren on the road. But, in 1992, it dropped a bomb on the performance car world with the McLaren F1 – a road-legal, series-produced sports car that became and remains the fastest naturally aspirated road car in the world, and is still commonly regarded as the greatest sports car ever built. It’s not hyperbole to claim that the McLaren F1 tossed the supercar rule book in the trash and wrote a new one to kick off McLaren’s success in building road cars.
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