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"I have a problem with Porsches. They're wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one. I don't go around saying that Porsches are a pile of dung, but I do know that psychologically I couldn't handle owning one" Rowan Atkinson.
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McLaren Automotive announces first UK retailers ahead of MP4-12C public debut at Goodwood Festival of Speed
* Three of the UK’s best car retailers to represent McLaren Automotive
* Rybrook Holdings Ltd, Jardine Motors Group and Sytner Group to represent McLaren Automotive in Birmingham, London and Manchester respectively
* Global public debut for new MP4-12C at Goodwood Festival of Speed in July
* Over 2,500 expressions of interest in buying the 12C already registered on www.mclarenautomotive.com; huge interest from UK car enthusiasts
WOKING, UK (June 15, 2010) – McLaren Automotive, the world’s newest sports car company, today announces the partners in its UK retail network: Rybrook in Birmingham, Jardine Motors Group in London, and Sytner in Manchester.
These three outstanding and experienced automotive retailers will begin selling the McLaren MP4-12C from spring 2011 under the names McLaren Birmingham, McLaren London and McLaren Manchester. The UK, along with the USA, will be McLaren’s biggest market, and initial interest in the UK for the 12C already exceeds the first year’s allocation. A full model range of high-performance, two-seat, mid-engine McLaren sports cars will be completed by the middle of the decade.
Antony Sheriff, McLaren Automotive’s Managing Director: “I am thrilled to announce the relationship between McLaren Automotive and its UK representatives - three of the best car retail businesses in the world. The UK is our home, and the strong demand for the 12C from potential retailers and prospects is evidence of the strength of the McLaren brand in the UK.
“British car enthusiasts are demanding; they enjoy and appreciate performance cars, and traditionally buy what’s best – not necessarily what’s British. Competing in this market will, therefore, be a major challenge for us as a new sports car company, but McLaren’s brand and experience stand us in good stead: the McLaren F1 and SLR projects were perfect benchmarks that provide us with the expertise, commitment and confidence to design, develop and build the world’s best performing and highest quality sports cars. We now have the ideal partners in the UK who have enormous experience in delivering extraordinary customer service to help us deliver on those expectations,” Sheriff concluded.
The UK retailers will join a global network of 35 partners in 2011 who will be responsible for selling a planned production volume of 1,000 12Cs. The European network will also be announced in June, with the North American, Middle Eastern and South African retailers confirmed this summer. The Asia Pacific market will be announced in the autumn, and a handful of retailers will then be added in select mature and emerging markets from 2012 as McLaren moves to a full model range of around 4,000 sports cars by the middle of the decade. McLaren Automotive’s aim is for its global network to remain smaller, more flexible, and more profitable than competitors’ networks, with a target of around 70 retailers worldwide.
Christian Marti, McLaren Automotive’s Regional Director for Europe, said: “We began our comprehensive search for the best retailers over a year ago. There was understandably strong competition to represent McLaren in the UK. As we have seen in all launch markets, the demand to be one of the first McLaren retailers was huge –we considered over 20 UK car retailers within a total of 600 potential global partners.
“During the selection process we shared our long-term business plan, innovative product line-up, and focus on what is best for the retailer – sensible investment and attention to customer service and aftersales. We have a phrase at McLaren that sums up our attitude towards the retail business: “sanity, not vanity”, and we will work very closely with Rybrook, Jardine Motors Group and Sytner to deliver great solutions for our future customers,” Marti concluded.
McLaren focus fits retailers’ future plans
McLaren Automotive aims to deliver the 12C through retailers who understand and appreciate the company’s desire to offer cars and customer service of a higher quality than previously experienced in the performance sports car market. McLaren’s strong brand and heritage, its reputation amongst performance car owners, and future plans for a range of high-performance sports cars proved highly attractive to the three successful retailers.
Henry Whale, Managing Director at Rybrook, McLaren’s franchise in Birmingham said: “With their incredible passion and total professionalism, McLaren has already established a world-beating brand through its Formula 1 activity. We are confident it will replicate this success as it launches its eagerly awaited sports car company, and that the 12C will redefine the sports car driving experience. We are delighted to be representing McLaren at the launch of this exciting project and we believe this appointment further enhances Rybrook’s position as a leading retailer of prestige motor cars in the UK.”
Simon Everett, Group Operations Director for Jardine Motors Group, McLaren’s representative in London, said: “Jardine Motors Group is ideally placed to support McLaren’s new sports car company. We are one of the UK’s leading motor groups and operating predominantly in the premium and high luxury sector – a natural champion of McLaren’s passion, skill, and experience. Representing McLaren in its very important home market in London is a great opportunity for the group and we are looking forward to working with them to establish this exciting new brand through a unique business model that delivers the highest levels of customer service.”
Jon Crossley, Sytner's Managing Director for its McLaren franchise in Manchester said, "Our enthusiasm for prestige motor cars is coupled with a great passion for motor racing and particularly Formula 1. This announcement is terrific news for my team who have a great understanding of, and appreciation for, the supercar market. They are very excited by the new McLaren’s close relationship to motor racing technology and its world-leading carbon innovation. We are really looking forward to introducing the new McLaren to our customer base and being a part of a very exciting future with such a prestigious brand."
McLaren on-tour round the world: Festival of Speed takes centre-stage
McLaren fans and car enthusiasts alike will be the first to see the 12C as it makes its public world debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed (July 1, 2, 3, 4). This follows a series of private viewings to prospects in Düsseldorf, Brussels, and Zurich in June, and immediately prior to similar events planned for UK McLaren retailers and prospects at the company’s award-winning MTC headquarters in Woking, Surrey.
Following the 12C’s Goodwood debut it will continue its world tour, being presented to select audiences, and taking in every city in which the car will be sold, from Sydney to San Francisco. Further public presentations will provide a wider audience with the opportunity to see McLaren Automotive’s innovative new sports car, such as the Pebble Beach Concours in California in August. This will provide potential customers with the opportunity to experience the quality, design and unique packaging that will allow the 12C to challenge the world’s most famous sports car brands.
Carbon and Formula 1 at the heart of 12C
Taking on the world’s best premium performance cars, the 12C will be lighter, more powerful, more fuel efficient and more exclusive than its key competition. It will achieve its performance benchmarks by introducing a unique, McLaren-developed carbon MonoCell chassis into the ‘core’ sports car segment in a production process that introduces technical innovation and new levels of quality to the market.
All McLarens will be based on this Formula 1-inspired carbon structure; since the 1981 Formula 1 MP4/1 racing car, McLaren has only ever constructed its racing or road cars around carbon fibre chassis.
Key to McLaren’s aspirations has been the integration of Formula 1 with the road car project. Through simulation, the flow of processes and principles between McLaren’s road car and racing car engineers, and the employment of a number of Formula 1 experts on the road car team, the 12C has been designed, developed, and engineered to the same standards, expectations and speed of thought as the company approaches its Formula 1 projects. McLaren Automotive and McLaren Racing are just metres apart under the same roof at the McLaren Technology Centre (MTC), and have combined to deliver a sports car designed for aerodynamic performance, just as in Formula 1.
New factory and global plans
A brand-new manufacturing facility, the McLaren Production Centre (MPC), began construction on March 1 2010 adjacent to the MTC. It will begin to build cars for the UK from spring 2011. The very first UK customers will have their cars built in the first months of 2011 in the MTC, prior to the opening of the MPC. This planned manufacturing programme will ensure the same unprecedented quality that McLaren delivered on the SLR is transferred onto all future McLarens.
Of the 19 countries, and 35 retailers, launching McLaren Automotive, the UK, USA, and Germany will be the company’s biggest markets for the 1,000 12Cs planned for production in 2011. Between 300 and 400 cars are planned for North America, 400 to 500 for Europe (70 per cent to UK and Germany), and 100 to 200 each for the Middle East/South Africa and Asia Pacific regions.
Following the March 2010 McLaren Automotive press conference, The Launch of a New Car Company, over 2,500 potential customers have now expressed a ‘serious intention to buy’ the 12C. The first 12Cs will be delivered to customers in Europe, followed by a phased distribution to retailers in the Middle East, South Africa, North America and Asia Pacific.
Prices for the 12C will be confirmed at a later date, but the car will sit in what McLaren terms the ‘core’ sports car segment of cars priced between £125,000 and £175,000.
McLaren’s 2011 global retail network: Mclaren Automotive will be represented in the following 35 cities and markets:
* Europe: UK (Birmingham, London, Manchester); Germany (Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Stuttgart or Munich); Belgium (Brussels); France (Monaco, Paris); Italy (Milan); Spain (Madrid or Barcelona), Switzerland (Zürich)
* North America: Canada (Toronto); USA (Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Orange County, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Tampa)
* Middle East / South Africa: UAE (Abu Dhabi, Dubai); Qatar; Saudi Arabia (Jeddah, Riyadh); Kuwait; Bahrain; South Africa (Johannesburg)
* Asia Pacific: Hong Kong; Singapore; Sydney; Tokyo
Antony Sheriff biography: Graduated from Swarthmore College in the U.S. with a B.S. in Engineering and a B.A. in Economics. After working for Chrysler, Antony completed a M.S. in Management from M.I.T in 1988 while working for the International Motor Vehicle Programme at M.I.T.. Upon graduation, Antony joined McKinsey and Company as a strategic management consultant, working with a number of automotive and non-automotive clients in the U.S. and Europe. In 1995, Antony joined Fiat Auto in Italy and in 1997 was promoted to Executive Director of Product Development for all Fiat, Alfa Romeo and Lancia cars and commercial vehicles. In 2002, Antony was promoted to Vice President Marketing for Fiat. Antony joined McLaren Automotive in 2003 as Managing Director. Antony’s responsibilities encompass the design, development and manufacture and distribution of current and future road cars.
Christian Marti biography: Studied Management Engineering and gained an MBA in International Business Management. Christian began his career in the automotive industry as a Product Manager at BMW in 1993, moving to Renault to become Product Director in 1999. In 2002, Christian left Renault to deliver the merger of Jaguar & Land Rover Austria. Over the next six years Christian held a number of Managing Director positions at Jaguar Land Rover, including recruiting and establishing a team and office in China. In 2008, he became the first CEO of Porsche Cars Canada before joining McLaren Automotive as Head of Europe in 2009.
* Three of the UK’s best car retailers to represent McLaren Automotive
* Rybrook Holdings Ltd, Jardine Motors Group and Sytner Group to represent McLaren Automotive in Birmingham, London and Manchester respectively
* Global public debut for new MP4-12C at Goodwood Festival of Speed in July
* Over 2,500 expressions of interest in buying the 12C already registered on www.mclarenautomotive.com; huge interest from UK car enthusiasts
WOKING, UK (June 15, 2010) – McLaren Automotive, the world’s newest sports car company, today announces the partners in its UK retail network: Rybrook in Birmingham, Jardine Motors Group in London, and Sytner in Manchester.
These three outstanding and experienced automotive retailers will begin selling the McLaren MP4-12C from spring 2011 under the names McLaren Birmingham, McLaren London and McLaren Manchester. The UK, along with the USA, will be McLaren’s biggest market, and initial interest in the UK for the 12C already exceeds the first year’s allocation. A full model range of high-performance, two-seat, mid-engine McLaren sports cars will be completed by the middle of the decade.
Antony Sheriff, McLaren Automotive’s Managing Director: “I am thrilled to announce the relationship between McLaren Automotive and its UK representatives - three of the best car retail businesses in the world. The UK is our home, and the strong demand for the 12C from potential retailers and prospects is evidence of the strength of the McLaren brand in the UK.
“British car enthusiasts are demanding; they enjoy and appreciate performance cars, and traditionally buy what’s best – not necessarily what’s British. Competing in this market will, therefore, be a major challenge for us as a new sports car company, but McLaren’s brand and experience stand us in good stead: the McLaren F1 and SLR projects were perfect benchmarks that provide us with the expertise, commitment and confidence to design, develop and build the world’s best performing and highest quality sports cars. We now have the ideal partners in the UK who have enormous experience in delivering extraordinary customer service to help us deliver on those expectations,” Sheriff concluded.
The UK retailers will join a global network of 35 partners in 2011 who will be responsible for selling a planned production volume of 1,000 12Cs. The European network will also be announced in June, with the North American, Middle Eastern and South African retailers confirmed this summer. The Asia Pacific market will be announced in the autumn, and a handful of retailers will then be added in select mature and emerging markets from 2012 as McLaren moves to a full model range of around 4,000 sports cars by the middle of the decade. McLaren Automotive’s aim is for its global network to remain smaller, more flexible, and more profitable than competitors’ networks, with a target of around 70 retailers worldwide.
Christian Marti, McLaren Automotive’s Regional Director for Europe, said: “We began our comprehensive search for the best retailers over a year ago. There was understandably strong competition to represent McLaren in the UK. As we have seen in all launch markets, the demand to be one of the first McLaren retailers was huge –we considered over 20 UK car retailers within a total of 600 potential global partners.
“During the selection process we shared our long-term business plan, innovative product line-up, and focus on what is best for the retailer – sensible investment and attention to customer service and aftersales. We have a phrase at McLaren that sums up our attitude towards the retail business: “sanity, not vanity”, and we will work very closely with Rybrook, Jardine Motors Group and Sytner to deliver great solutions for our future customers,” Marti concluded.
McLaren focus fits retailers’ future plans
McLaren Automotive aims to deliver the 12C through retailers who understand and appreciate the company’s desire to offer cars and customer service of a higher quality than previously experienced in the performance sports car market. McLaren’s strong brand and heritage, its reputation amongst performance car owners, and future plans for a range of high-performance sports cars proved highly attractive to the three successful retailers.
Henry Whale, Managing Director at Rybrook, McLaren’s franchise in Birmingham said: “With their incredible passion and total professionalism, McLaren has already established a world-beating brand through its Formula 1 activity. We are confident it will replicate this success as it launches its eagerly awaited sports car company, and that the 12C will redefine the sports car driving experience. We are delighted to be representing McLaren at the launch of this exciting project and we believe this appointment further enhances Rybrook’s position as a leading retailer of prestige motor cars in the UK.”
Simon Everett, Group Operations Director for Jardine Motors Group, McLaren’s representative in London, said: “Jardine Motors Group is ideally placed to support McLaren’s new sports car company. We are one of the UK’s leading motor groups and operating predominantly in the premium and high luxury sector – a natural champion of McLaren’s passion, skill, and experience. Representing McLaren in its very important home market in London is a great opportunity for the group and we are looking forward to working with them to establish this exciting new brand through a unique business model that delivers the highest levels of customer service.”
Jon Crossley, Sytner's Managing Director for its McLaren franchise in Manchester said, "Our enthusiasm for prestige motor cars is coupled with a great passion for motor racing and particularly Formula 1. This announcement is terrific news for my team who have a great understanding of, and appreciation for, the supercar market. They are very excited by the new McLaren’s close relationship to motor racing technology and its world-leading carbon innovation. We are really looking forward to introducing the new McLaren to our customer base and being a part of a very exciting future with such a prestigious brand."
McLaren on-tour round the world: Festival of Speed takes centre-stage
McLaren fans and car enthusiasts alike will be the first to see the 12C as it makes its public world debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed (July 1, 2, 3, 4). This follows a series of private viewings to prospects in Düsseldorf, Brussels, and Zurich in June, and immediately prior to similar events planned for UK McLaren retailers and prospects at the company’s award-winning MTC headquarters in Woking, Surrey.
Following the 12C’s Goodwood debut it will continue its world tour, being presented to select audiences, and taking in every city in which the car will be sold, from Sydney to San Francisco. Further public presentations will provide a wider audience with the opportunity to see McLaren Automotive’s innovative new sports car, such as the Pebble Beach Concours in California in August. This will provide potential customers with the opportunity to experience the quality, design and unique packaging that will allow the 12C to challenge the world’s most famous sports car brands.
Carbon and Formula 1 at the heart of 12C
Taking on the world’s best premium performance cars, the 12C will be lighter, more powerful, more fuel efficient and more exclusive than its key competition. It will achieve its performance benchmarks by introducing a unique, McLaren-developed carbon MonoCell chassis into the ‘core’ sports car segment in a production process that introduces technical innovation and new levels of quality to the market.
All McLarens will be based on this Formula 1-inspired carbon structure; since the 1981 Formula 1 MP4/1 racing car, McLaren has only ever constructed its racing or road cars around carbon fibre chassis.
Key to McLaren’s aspirations has been the integration of Formula 1 with the road car project. Through simulation, the flow of processes and principles between McLaren’s road car and racing car engineers, and the employment of a number of Formula 1 experts on the road car team, the 12C has been designed, developed, and engineered to the same standards, expectations and speed of thought as the company approaches its Formula 1 projects. McLaren Automotive and McLaren Racing are just metres apart under the same roof at the McLaren Technology Centre (MTC), and have combined to deliver a sports car designed for aerodynamic performance, just as in Formula 1.
New factory and global plans
A brand-new manufacturing facility, the McLaren Production Centre (MPC), began construction on March 1 2010 adjacent to the MTC. It will begin to build cars for the UK from spring 2011. The very first UK customers will have their cars built in the first months of 2011 in the MTC, prior to the opening of the MPC. This planned manufacturing programme will ensure the same unprecedented quality that McLaren delivered on the SLR is transferred onto all future McLarens.
Of the 19 countries, and 35 retailers, launching McLaren Automotive, the UK, USA, and Germany will be the company’s biggest markets for the 1,000 12Cs planned for production in 2011. Between 300 and 400 cars are planned for North America, 400 to 500 for Europe (70 per cent to UK and Germany), and 100 to 200 each for the Middle East/South Africa and Asia Pacific regions.
Following the March 2010 McLaren Automotive press conference, The Launch of a New Car Company, over 2,500 potential customers have now expressed a ‘serious intention to buy’ the 12C. The first 12Cs will be delivered to customers in Europe, followed by a phased distribution to retailers in the Middle East, South Africa, North America and Asia Pacific.
Prices for the 12C will be confirmed at a later date, but the car will sit in what McLaren terms the ‘core’ sports car segment of cars priced between £125,000 and £175,000.
McLaren’s 2011 global retail network: Mclaren Automotive will be represented in the following 35 cities and markets:
* Europe: UK (Birmingham, London, Manchester); Germany (Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Stuttgart or Munich); Belgium (Brussels); France (Monaco, Paris); Italy (Milan); Spain (Madrid or Barcelona), Switzerland (Zürich)
* North America: Canada (Toronto); USA (Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Orange County, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Tampa)
* Middle East / South Africa: UAE (Abu Dhabi, Dubai); Qatar; Saudi Arabia (Jeddah, Riyadh); Kuwait; Bahrain; South Africa (Johannesburg)
* Asia Pacific: Hong Kong; Singapore; Sydney; Tokyo
Antony Sheriff biography: Graduated from Swarthmore College in the U.S. with a B.S. in Engineering and a B.A. in Economics. After working for Chrysler, Antony completed a M.S. in Management from M.I.T in 1988 while working for the International Motor Vehicle Programme at M.I.T.. Upon graduation, Antony joined McKinsey and Company as a strategic management consultant, working with a number of automotive and non-automotive clients in the U.S. and Europe. In 1995, Antony joined Fiat Auto in Italy and in 1997 was promoted to Executive Director of Product Development for all Fiat, Alfa Romeo and Lancia cars and commercial vehicles. In 2002, Antony was promoted to Vice President Marketing for Fiat. Antony joined McLaren Automotive in 2003 as Managing Director. Antony’s responsibilities encompass the design, development and manufacture and distribution of current and future road cars.
Christian Marti biography: Studied Management Engineering and gained an MBA in International Business Management. Christian began his career in the automotive industry as a Product Manager at BMW in 1993, moving to Renault to become Product Director in 1999. In 2002, Christian left Renault to deliver the merger of Jaguar & Land Rover Austria. Over the next six years Christian held a number of Managing Director positions at Jaguar Land Rover, including recruiting and establishing a team and office in China. In 2008, he became the first CEO of Porsche Cars Canada before joining McLaren Automotive as Head of Europe in 2009.
"I have a problem with Porsches. They're wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one. I don't go around saying that Porsches are a pile of dung, but I do know that psychologically I couldn't handle owning one" Rowan Atkinson.
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"I have a problem with Porsches. They're wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one. I don't go around saying that Porsches are a pile of dung, but I do know that psychologically I couldn't handle owning one" Rowan Atkinson.
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McLaren Automotive confirms European retail network as MP4-12C begins world tour in Germany
* Europe’s best car retailers to represent McLaren Automotive
* UK, German, French, Belgian, Italian and Swiss retailers confirmed
* 12C global public debut at Goodwood Festival of Speed in July as part of world tour taking in over 50 venues in 2011
* 1,000 12Cs planned for 2011, with over 2,500 expressions of interest in buying the 12C already registered on www.mclarenautomotive.com
WOKING, UK (June 17, 2010) – McLaren Automotive, the world’s newest sports car company, today confirms the majority of its European partners in the UK, German, French, Belgian, Italian and Swiss markets.
The home market will be represented by Rybrook Holdings Ltd in Birmingham, Jardine Motors Group in London and Sytner Group in Manchester. These experienced UK retailers will join a global network of 35 partners in 2011, featuring some of Europe’s most successful premium-brand retailers:
Germany: Düsseldorf, MollSportwagen GmbH; Hamburg, Merkur Hanseatische Beteiligungs-AG
France: Paris, Neubauer Group; Monaco, MonacoLuxury Group
Belgium: Brussels, Ginion Group
Italy: Milan, Gruppo Fassina
Switzerland: Zürich, Schmohl AG
Two further retailers for Germany and a Spanish partner will complete the initial European network and will be confirmed in the coming weeks along with McLaren Automotive’s North American, Middle Eastern and South African partners. The company’s Asia Pacific network will be announced later in the year.
Ron Dennis, McLaren Automotive’s Executive Chairman said, “This announcement is a major step in McLaren’s history as we progress with our plan to launch a premium, profitable and innovative new sports car company. We have been rigorous in the selection process of our first group of global retail partners – taking a year to select the best thirty-five from six hundred potential retailers. They are now part of the McLaren family.
“It is, therefore, their responsibility to represent our incredibly high standards to future McLaren customers. But this is a relationship, and McLaren also has a responsibility to our retail partners: to provide a sustainable business, with the best opportunities for growth through a strong brand and exciting, innovative cars of the highest quality.”
The initial 35 automotive retailers will begin selling the McLaren MP4-12C from spring 2011. Longer-term, a full model range of around 4,000 high-performance, mid-engine McLaren sports cars will be produced annually by McLaren Automotive in the UK. McLaren Automotive’s aim is for its global network to remain more exclusive, more flexible, and more profitable than competitors’ networks, with a target of around 70 retailers worldwide.
Antony Sheriff, McLaren Automotive’s Managing Director: “Following the announcement in autumn 2009 of our intention to sell a range of premium, ‘pure McLaren’ sports cars, we were inundated with requests from the world’s best car retailers to represent McLaren. Safe to say, the selected retailers really are the cream of the crop.
“Competing in global markets will be an exciting challenge for us as a new car company, but we are confident that our performance benchmarks, technological innovation, and focus on quality will deliver new standards in sports car design. The final step is putting in place a retail network that is capable of delivering extraordinary customer service, and we now have the ideal partners in Europe to support us in delivering on those expectations,” Sheriff concluded.
McLaren Automotive plans to build around 1,000 12Cs in 2011, to be sold initially in 19 countries. The UK, USA, and Germany will be the company’s biggest markets for the 12C. In 2011, between 300 and 400 cars are planned for North America, 400 to 500 for Europe (70 per cent to UK and Germany), and 100 to 200 each for the Middle East, South Africa and Asia Pacific regions.
Orders for the 12C will be taken by McLaren Automotive’s new retail network and delivered to McLaren from the autumn. Significant demand is promised: a detailed communication process between McLaren Automotive and prospective customers who have registered a ‘serious intention to buy’ the 12C has confirmed over 2,500 potential orders. This encouraging number will be further supplemented by retailers’ existing performance car customers tempted by McLaren and the 12C’s unique facets.
The first 12Cs will be delivered to customers in the UK and Europe from spring 2011, followed by a phased distribution to retailers in the Middle East, South Africa, North America and Asia Pacific. Prices for the 12C will be confirmed at a later date, but the car will sit in what McLaren terms the ‘core’ sports car segment of cars priced between £125,000 and £175,000.
Christian Marti, McLaren Automotive’s Regional Director for Europe, said: “We began our comprehensive search for the best retailers over a year ago. There was understandably strong competition to represent McLaren in Europe, particularly based on the company’s reputation built from Formula 1 and Le Mans racing success, as well as the icon that is the McLaren F1.
“During the selection process we presented a strong business plan that focused on an innovative product line-up, and detailed attention to customer service and aftersales. We have a phrase at McLaren that sums up our attitude towards the retail business: “sanity, not vanity”, and we will work very closely with our European network to deliver great solutions for our future customers,” Marti concluded.
New factory and global plans
A brand-new manufacturing facility, the McLaren Production Centre (MPC), began construction on March 1 2010 adjacent to the McLaren Technology Centre (MTC). It will be completed, and begin building cars for Europe, in spring 2011. But the very first European customers will have their cars built from the beginning of 2011 under the same roof as McLaren’s Formula 1 cars in the MTC, prior to the opening of the MPC. This planned manufacturing programme will ensure the same unprecedented quality that McLaren delivered during SLR production in the MTC is transferred onto all future McLarens.
McLaren on-tour round the world: Festival of Speed takes centre-stage
Car enthusiasts and potential McLaren customers will be the first to see the 12C as it makes its public world debut at the world-famous Goodwood Festival of Speed (July 1, 2, 3, 4) near Chichester, England. This follows a series of private viewings of the 12C in Düsseldorf, Brussels, and Zürich in June, and prior to similar events planned at US retailer locations. UK McLaren retailers and their potential customers will be invited to the company’s award-winning MTC headquarters in Woking, Surrey in early July.
The 12C then continues its world tour throughout 2010, being presented to select audiences of McLaren fans, and taking in every city in which the car will be sold, from Sydney to San Francisco.
European Retailer Contact Information:
McLaren Düsseldorf
Jens Nothelle: Brand Manager
Postal address:
Willstätter Str. 45
40549 Düsseldorf
Germany
+49 (0) 211-94461760
info@mclarenduesseldorf.de
McLaren Hamburg
Kai Rodovsky
Postal address:
Weg beim Jäger 224 – 226
22335 Hamburg
Germany
+49 (0) 40-59 100 500
info@mclaren-hamburg.de
McLaren Paris
Mr Thomas Schoofs: Executive Salesman
Postal address:
71, Avenue de Versailles
F-75016
Paris
France
+33 6 12 17 26 00
McLaren Monaco
Christophe Capion
Postal address:
BP 608
Cedex
98013
Monaco
+377 93 25 69 99
McLaren Brussels
Jean-Michel Maertens: Sales Executive
Postal address:
Brusselsesteenweg 403
3090 Overijse
Belgium
+32 470 59 59 59
jean-michel.maertens@mclarenbrussels.be
McLaren Milan
Ado Fassina
Postal address:
Via Arona, 15
20145 Milano
Italia
+39 02 345 43202
ado.fassina@mclaren-milano.it
McLaren Zürich
Mathias Hascher
Postal address:
Stinson-Strasse 2
CH-8152 Glattpark
Switzerland
+41 (0) 43 211 44 48
UK Retailer Contact Information:
McLaren London
Sinan Omer: Dealer Principal
Postal address:
c/o 73 Bridge Road East
Welwyn Garden City
Hertfordshire
AL7 1UT
020 3151 0020
sinan.omer@london.mclaren.com
McLaren Birmingham
David Tibbetts: Sales Director
Postal address:
Rybrook Group
6 Athena Court
Athena Drive
Tachbrook Park
Warwick
CV34 6RT
0845 366 8564
david.tibbetts@birmingham.mclaren.com
McLaren Manchester
Peter Kelsall: General Sales Manager
Postal address:
1 Canute Place
Knutsford
Cheshire
WA16 6BQ
01565 756475
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McLaren Automotive confirms European retail network as MP4-12C begins world tour in Germany
* Europe’s best car retailers to represent McLaren Automotive
* UK, German, French, Belgian, Italian and Swiss retailers confirmed
* 12C global public debut at Goodwood Festival of Speed in July as part of world tour taking in over 50 venues in 2011
* 1,000 12Cs planned for 2011, with over 2,500 expressions of interest in buying the 12C already registered on www.mclarenautomotive.com
WOKING, UK (June 17, 2010) – McLaren Automotive, the world’s newest sports car company, today confirms the majority of its European partners in the UK, German, French, Belgian, Italian and Swiss markets.
The home market will be represented by Rybrook Holdings Ltd in Birmingham, Jardine Motors Group in London and Sytner Group in Manchester. These experienced UK retailers will join a global network of 35 partners in 2011, featuring some of Europe’s most successful premium-brand retailers:
Germany: Düsseldorf, MollSportwagen GmbH; Hamburg, Merkur Hanseatische Beteiligungs-AG
France: Paris, Neubauer Group; Monaco, MonacoLuxury Group
Belgium: Brussels, Ginion Group
Italy: Milan, Gruppo Fassina
Switzerland: Zürich, Schmohl AG
Two further retailers for Germany and a Spanish partner will complete the initial European network and will be confirmed in the coming weeks along with McLaren Automotive’s North American, Middle Eastern and South African partners. The company’s Asia Pacific network will be announced later in the year.
Ron Dennis, McLaren Automotive’s Executive Chairman said, “This announcement is a major step in McLaren’s history as we progress with our plan to launch a premium, profitable and innovative new sports car company. We have been rigorous in the selection process of our first group of global retail partners – taking a year to select the best thirty-five from six hundred potential retailers. They are now part of the McLaren family.
“It is, therefore, their responsibility to represent our incredibly high standards to future McLaren customers. But this is a relationship, and McLaren also has a responsibility to our retail partners: to provide a sustainable business, with the best opportunities for growth through a strong brand and exciting, innovative cars of the highest quality.”
The initial 35 automotive retailers will begin selling the McLaren MP4-12C from spring 2011. Longer-term, a full model range of around 4,000 high-performance, mid-engine McLaren sports cars will be produced annually by McLaren Automotive in the UK. McLaren Automotive’s aim is for its global network to remain more exclusive, more flexible, and more profitable than competitors’ networks, with a target of around 70 retailers worldwide.
Antony Sheriff, McLaren Automotive’s Managing Director: “Following the announcement in autumn 2009 of our intention to sell a range of premium, ‘pure McLaren’ sports cars, we were inundated with requests from the world’s best car retailers to represent McLaren. Safe to say, the selected retailers really are the cream of the crop.
“Competing in global markets will be an exciting challenge for us as a new car company, but we are confident that our performance benchmarks, technological innovation, and focus on quality will deliver new standards in sports car design. The final step is putting in place a retail network that is capable of delivering extraordinary customer service, and we now have the ideal partners in Europe to support us in delivering on those expectations,” Sheriff concluded.
McLaren Automotive plans to build around 1,000 12Cs in 2011, to be sold initially in 19 countries. The UK, USA, and Germany will be the company’s biggest markets for the 12C. In 2011, between 300 and 400 cars are planned for North America, 400 to 500 for Europe (70 per cent to UK and Germany), and 100 to 200 each for the Middle East, South Africa and Asia Pacific regions.
Orders for the 12C will be taken by McLaren Automotive’s new retail network and delivered to McLaren from the autumn. Significant demand is promised: a detailed communication process between McLaren Automotive and prospective customers who have registered a ‘serious intention to buy’ the 12C has confirmed over 2,500 potential orders. This encouraging number will be further supplemented by retailers’ existing performance car customers tempted by McLaren and the 12C’s unique facets.
The first 12Cs will be delivered to customers in the UK and Europe from spring 2011, followed by a phased distribution to retailers in the Middle East, South Africa, North America and Asia Pacific. Prices for the 12C will be confirmed at a later date, but the car will sit in what McLaren terms the ‘core’ sports car segment of cars priced between £125,000 and £175,000.
Christian Marti, McLaren Automotive’s Regional Director for Europe, said: “We began our comprehensive search for the best retailers over a year ago. There was understandably strong competition to represent McLaren in Europe, particularly based on the company’s reputation built from Formula 1 and Le Mans racing success, as well as the icon that is the McLaren F1.
“During the selection process we presented a strong business plan that focused on an innovative product line-up, and detailed attention to customer service and aftersales. We have a phrase at McLaren that sums up our attitude towards the retail business: “sanity, not vanity”, and we will work very closely with our European network to deliver great solutions for our future customers,” Marti concluded.
New factory and global plans
A brand-new manufacturing facility, the McLaren Production Centre (MPC), began construction on March 1 2010 adjacent to the McLaren Technology Centre (MTC). It will be completed, and begin building cars for Europe, in spring 2011. But the very first European customers will have their cars built from the beginning of 2011 under the same roof as McLaren’s Formula 1 cars in the MTC, prior to the opening of the MPC. This planned manufacturing programme will ensure the same unprecedented quality that McLaren delivered during SLR production in the MTC is transferred onto all future McLarens.
McLaren on-tour round the world: Festival of Speed takes centre-stage
Car enthusiasts and potential McLaren customers will be the first to see the 12C as it makes its public world debut at the world-famous Goodwood Festival of Speed (July 1, 2, 3, 4) near Chichester, England. This follows a series of private viewings of the 12C in Düsseldorf, Brussels, and Zürich in June, and prior to similar events planned at US retailer locations. UK McLaren retailers and their potential customers will be invited to the company’s award-winning MTC headquarters in Woking, Surrey in early July.
The 12C then continues its world tour throughout 2010, being presented to select audiences of McLaren fans, and taking in every city in which the car will be sold, from Sydney to San Francisco.
European Retailer Contact Information:
McLaren Düsseldorf
Jens Nothelle: Brand Manager
Postal address:
Willstätter Str. 45
40549 Düsseldorf
Germany
+49 (0) 211-94461760
info@mclarenduesseldorf.de
McLaren Hamburg
Kai Rodovsky
Postal address:
Weg beim Jäger 224 – 226
22335 Hamburg
Germany
+49 (0) 40-59 100 500
info@mclaren-hamburg.de
McLaren Paris
Mr Thomas Schoofs: Executive Salesman
Postal address:
71, Avenue de Versailles
F-75016
Paris
France
+33 6 12 17 26 00
McLaren Monaco
Christophe Capion
Postal address:
BP 608
Cedex
98013
Monaco
+377 93 25 69 99
McLaren Brussels
Jean-Michel Maertens: Sales Executive
Postal address:
Brusselsesteenweg 403
3090 Overijse
Belgium
+32 470 59 59 59
jean-michel.maertens@mclarenbrussels.be
McLaren Milan
Ado Fassina
Postal address:
Via Arona, 15
20145 Milano
Italia
+39 02 345 43202
ado.fassina@mclaren-milano.it
McLaren Zürich
Mathias Hascher
Postal address:
Stinson-Strasse 2
CH-8152 Glattpark
Switzerland
+41 (0) 43 211 44 48
UK Retailer Contact Information:
McLaren London
Sinan Omer: Dealer Principal
Postal address:
c/o 73 Bridge Road East
Welwyn Garden City
Hertfordshire
AL7 1UT
020 3151 0020
sinan.omer@london.mclaren.com
McLaren Birmingham
David Tibbetts: Sales Director
Postal address:
Rybrook Group
6 Athena Court
Athena Drive
Tachbrook Park
Warwick
CV34 6RT
0845 366 8564
david.tibbetts@birmingham.mclaren.com
McLaren Manchester
Peter Kelsall: General Sales Manager
Postal address:
1 Canute Place
Knutsford
Cheshire
WA16 6BQ
01565 756475
peter.kelsall@manchester.mclaren.com
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