About this episode

This episode features a drive of the McLaren W1 hypercar and an interview with industry minister Chris McDonald MP discussing automotive news.

In this week's episode of the Autocar podcast My Week In Cars, we drive the McLaren W1 hypercar, the latest Ultimate series car from the Woking carmaker, and only the third McLaren to have a '1' moniker. Meanwhile Mitsubishi returns to the UK, the ZEV mandate looks like being amended, and industry minister Chris McDonald MP talks to us from Lotus's Hethel HQ, from where there is news too. Prior and Cropley also have your letters and chat about the archive. And for details of a special offer which gives you SIX issues of Autocar for just £6, click here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Autocar

Guest: Chris McDonald MP

Topics covered

• McLaren W1
• automotive industry
• Mitsubishi UK return
• ZEV mandate
• Lotus news

Keywords

• McLaren W1
• hypercar
• automotive news
• ZEV mandate
• Mitsubishi
• Lotus

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mitsubishi, Lotus

Products: McLaren W1

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