Tuesday 18th February 2025

New 'MCL38' specials celebrate McLaren F1 title

Just 18 750S and Arturas will be offered globally to mark McLaren's 2024 Constructors' championship

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While the 2025 F1 season isn’t very far away, McLaren is still celebrating its achievements from last term. Understandably, too, given its Constructors’ Championship was the first McLaren title in years - and it hadn’t been going great prior to ‘24. So an occasion to be marked, which it is doing with a brace of ‘MCL38’ special editions, the name a nod to last year’s GP racer. 

The Artura and 750S are the basis for the limited-run machines, with nine examples of each getting the MCL38 Celebration Edition overhaul. That’s for the entire planet, too, so these will be very rare even by McLaren special standards. And it’s nine each for nine constructors’ championships won in total. All 18 MCL38s get a McLaren Special Operations overhaul, with Papaya Orange and Anthracite - plus the chevron colour transition - just like the F1 cars.

Additional goodies include a ‘Nine Star’ logo (literally a ‘9’ made of stars; it’s not so great) plus a ‘Champions’ Laurel’ - so nobody will mistake either Artura or 750S for any other MSO commission. Inside is perhaps where the Celebration Editions get most interesting, because the Visual Carbon Fibre Extended Sill Cover is signed by both Piastri and Norris. Each of the cars also gets a dedication plaque that includes an actual bit of MCL38 carbon bodywork, plus another plaque (somebody definitely got the limited edition memo) in the front boot, documenting the wins, poles and fastest laps achieved last year. 

McLaren Automotive CEO Michael Leiters said: “The achievements of Zak Brown, Andrea Stella, Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri and the entire McLaren Racing team in winning the Formula 1 Constructors’ Championship are beyond inspirational – and what better way to mark this than with an ultra-exclusive Celebration Edition of our award-winning Artura and 750S."

He added: "Just nine examples of the Artura and nine of the 750S MCL38 Celebration Edition cars will be produced, each proudly commemorating McLaren’s most recent championship victory as well as delivering the exhilarating and unbeatable driving experience inherent in our world-class supercars.”

A price hasn’t been announced for either of the MCL38s, though it wouldn’t be a surprise to find them all allocated already. Or very soon, at least. Imagine what MSO will have to conjure up if 2025 is equally successful…

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[Zenzz]

I reckon they could have done better than that tbh

[The Pistonsdead]

Are the stars aligned

[gruppeb86]

Zenzz said:

I reckon they could have done better than that tbh

lol. Great.

[Peterpetrole]

Shoved a plaque in the front boot?

I read that with an image of Arthur Daly putting a free box of knock off VHS tapes in a customer's car.

[PorkerHam]

Big McL fan, but somehow the way they have used the colour scheme there just doesn't work at all for me.

[Whydoyoutalkcrap]

Can I assume they thought they wouldn't be able to sell 38 of them?

[Fetchez la vache]

article said:

another plaque in the front boot documenting the wins, poles and fastest laps achieved last year.

Shame there's no picture of this, as I'd like to see if it's as bad as it sounds.

[jmcc500]

The paint is a bit reminiscent of the 208 GTi 30th anniversary edition, and, to my eyes, it didn’t really work on that either.

[AL5026]

Toyota got there first maybe…….

[ManyMotors]

It looks like Mike Leiters is struggling.

[Bencolem]

AL5026 said:

Toyota got there first maybe…….

Peugeot was doing this 10 years ago. Looked crap then. Still looks crap now.

[TIGA84]

Its a nice idea but I think it does look a bit "Dealer Special" from the 90's - they could have done so much more I think but it might work better in the flesh. Its going to be very hard to translate an F1 livery to a road car and make it work as they are completely different things so maybe they thought simple is better.

Shame they couldn't have worked some of the sponsorship in somehow but doubt they could or could be bothered, the Mastercard colours work quite well it or Darktrace on the 750 wing might be ok but then it'd probably get criticised even more. Halfords colours are a bit too close to home for that.............

[MDL111]

and I thought some of the Ferrari 70 edition cars were naff and you'd have to have more money than sense to buy them....

[Lotusgav]

Far out PH is turning into curmudgeons corner. I knew as soon as I opened the thread it would be a sea of negativity. Getting hard to come on here sometimes these days.

I’m glad they’re celebrating their win. A British team with a British driver won the constructors championship and the British road car is widely regarded as one of the best Supercars out there, good on ‘em for marking the achievement 👍 I hope they have a successful year this year too. I’m living in Aus now so I’ll support Piastri as well…

[Terminator X]

Hmm doesn't seem that "special" ...

TX.

[CG2020UK]

Love it!

[Jon_S_Rally]

Lotusgav said:

Far out PH is turning into curmudgeons corner. I knew as soon as I opened the thread it would be a sea of negativity. Getting hard to come on here sometimes these days.

I’m glad they’re celebrating their win. A British team with a British driver won the constructors championship and the British road car is widely regarded as one of the best Supercars out there, good on ‘em for marking the achievement ?? I hope they have a successful year this year too. I’m living in Aus now so I’ll support Piastri as well…

Quite. You don't need to open most news-related threads to know what the comments will be these days. There are more than a few folk on here that need to cheer up a bit!

As for the cars, they doesn't totally work for me, but it's nice to see them marking their return to the top. Long may it continue.

[theicemario]

Anthracite looks awful

[MDL111]

Jon_S_Rally said:

Lotusgav said:

Far out PH is turning into curmudgeons corner. I knew as soon as I opened the thread it would be a sea of negativity. Getting hard to come on here sometimes these days.

I’m glad they’re celebrating their win. A British team with a British driver won the constructors championship and the British road car is widely regarded as one of the best Supercars out there, good on ‘em for marking the achievement ?? I hope they have a successful year this year too. I’m living in Aus now so I’ll support Piastri as well…

Quite. You don't need to open most news-related threads to know what the comments will be these days. There are more than a few folk on here that need to cheer up a bit!

As for the cars, they doesn't totally work for me, but it's nice to see them marking their return to the top. Long may it continue.

I don't know, I think people are just a bit underwhelmed by the fact that it is just some paint. If you want to celebrate that, then why not make a 780R like the 620R instead of just launching a "limited edition" that consists of (imo pretty crap looking) paint scheme. Since when does paint warrant naming something a limited edition...

[DannyScene]

I particularly like the paint scheme on the 750s it works better than the artura in my eyes