An Exclusive Look Inside The McLaren Factory

Teamspeed member “GFWillimas” is one of the lucky few, really. It’s one of those extremely rare treats for an automotive enthusiast (as we are all here) to get an exclusive inside look into a sport-car makers factory, especially one as astonishing as McLaren’s. Lucky for us he shares the entire experience with us through a series of wonderful images! “Back in January Jalopnik featured my photos of the Bugatti Veyron in the secret Tunnel. Those pictures were rather popular and quite a few people ended up seeing them. Off the back of that I got an email from the head of PR at McLaren asking if I’d like to meet him the following week for a chat about potentially doing some photos in the McLaren Production Centre and outside the McLaren Technology Centre. So the next week I had a full private tour of the new McLaren Production Centre and discussed ideas for a shoot. Fast forward to the end of March and the shoot was fully organised and it was time to do the actual shoot.

I had invited PistonHeads along to the shoot to write an exclusive on the evening there and I had also invited 3 of my MP4-12C owning clients, while PH invited a 12C owner they knew.

So the plan was for my assistant and I to arrive at 2pm to shoot the actual production line while it was still in action, shoot all afternoon then the PistonHeads staff would arrive at 6, the 12C owners arriving at 6:30 and I’d photograph their cars for a while before a lovely dinner in the McLaren Technology Centre.

So I will begin with the pictures inside the McLaren Production Centre while the workers were still there:

When you walk into the Production Centre, this is the first view you see. Pretty amazing I think you’ll agree!”