Aerospace industry-grade carbon fibre comes to supercars with McLaren ART carbon: a world first in lightweight supercar engineering

06 Mar 2025 McLaren Automotive has developed a world-first application of an aerospace industry composites manufacturing method scaled appropriately for volume supercar manufacturing Deployed at the McLaren Composites Technology Centre (MCTC) in Sheffield, UK, new Automated Rapid Tape (ART) production method produces McLaren ART carbon fibre structures that can be optimised to be even lighter,…