McLaren would allow only one set of performance numbers to be extracted from their XP5 prototype F1 and Autocar was tasked with the job. Also Read: The World’s Best McLaren F1 Is Going To Bring ...

But while busy hands were laying carbon fiber in Woking, McLaren's own F1, XP5 also became the fastest car in the world. Why in 1998 instead of six years before? Mainly because, although it wasn't ...

That is how much this McLaren F1 has been driven since the moment it ... Photo: RM Sotheby's On March 31, 1998, pro driver Andy Wallace took an XP5 prototype with a modified rev limiter to set ...

This year marks the 25th anniversary since the birth of the McLaren F1 and the British supercar maker reminds us how this mythical piece of kit managed to set new standards back in 1998.

Its sibling, the 1989 XP5 (McLaren’s F1 prototype), achieved a speed record of 240.1 mph (386.5 kph) that stood for twelve years in the production car category. It was overthrown by the Bugatti ...

The F1 has distinctive black-on-white dials which one customer didn’t like, so his uniquely were white on black. His name? Rowan Atkinson ...

There are too many markers of a very specific time: a McLaren F1, a British Army Helicopter ... to make the government folks happy. The fifth, XP5, was used as a promotional vehicle.