Making money in the supercar market inevitably leads to an SUV. Just don’t call it that, though.
First, there was the Porsche Cayenne. When it debuted in 2002, fans were furious because it was considered unacceptable for a sportscar maker to dip its toe into the highly lucrative SUV world. But guess what? The critics later realized that in order to keep making the beloved 911, Porsche needed to make money, and the Cayenne–later the Macan, too–was the solution.
The 2013 P1 was McLaren's first plug-in hybrid “To unlock our full potential as a company, we believe there is a second stage, to enlarge and expand our lineup beyond the segment where we are today,” Leiters said for Road & Track. “We have called this ‘shared performance,’ because you can share the performance with more people than you can have in a McLaren today.” In other words, you’ll need to wrap your head around yet another automotive moniker–SPV, or Shared Performance Vehicle.
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