Every McLaren road car since the vaunted F1 has featured carbon-fiber monocoque construction. With the Artura, McLaren has finally brought the entire design, prototyping, and production of this vital component in-house. Here's how that, and the introduction of a spanking-new ethernet architecture, are making the McLaren Artura a better supercar.
In-House Carbon-Fiber Monocoque Weighs Less
This new McLaren Carbon Lightweight Architecture (MCLA) is the first to be built in-house at the McLaren Composites Technology Centre (MCTC) near Sheffield in northern England. The MCTC opened in 2018, and this completely in-house development program is paying off with a carbon-fiber monocoque that incorporates four new carbon materials, a new resin loading system, and a new structural core material, specifics of which have not yet been fully disclosed. We do know that even as late as the prototyping phase, revisions to the way the resin is injected into the carbon-fiber mold resulted in a savings of 4.4 pounds.
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