McLaren Toronto named McLaren Automotive’s Global Retailer of the Year 2023

13 Jun 2024

• McLaren Toronto named as McLaren Automotive’s Global Retailer of the Year 2023 from a shortlist of 12 highest-performing retailers globally
• The second time that McLaren Toronto have been selected as McLaren’s Global Retailer of the Year
• McLaren Osaka named Regional Retailer of the Year for APACHI and McLaren Zürich is named Regional Retailer of the Year for EMEA

McLaren Toronto has been named the British supercar manufacturer’s Global Retailer of the Year 2023.

Announced at McLaren’s Premier Club event held in the UK and the South of France, McLaren Toronto was recognised for consistently strong retail performance despite challenging market conditions.

McLaren Toronto are McLaren’s regional leaders in Aftersales and are consistently in the overall top five performing retailers for the Americas region. The retailer was named as McLaren Automotive’s Global Retailer of the Year in 2017 and Regional Retailer of the Year for The Americas in 2016.

For 2023, McLaren Osaka were confirmed as Regional Retailer of the Year for APACHI, while McLaren Zürich were named the Regional Retailer of the Year for EMEA.

To determine each winner, McLaren Automotive benchmarks multiple areas of business on a monthly basis using a digital scorecard. The top 12 performing retailers then join McLaren’s Premier Club and are shortlisted for the regional and overall awards.

Representatives from McLaren Automotive’s Premier Club travelled to Europe to attend the Retailer of the Year Premier Club Event between June 11 and 14, which included a preview and drive of the brand’s eagerly anticipated new high-performance hybrid convertible supercar, the McLaren Artura Spider.

McLaren Toronto will see their name engraved on the Retailer of the Year trophy which will be displayed in the growing McLaren Technology Centre trophy cabinet. Regional winners will each receive a Premier Club trophy to display in their showrooms.

The 2023 Premier Club includes: McLaren Zürich, McLaren Manchester, McLaren Utrecht, McLaren Johannesburg, McLaren Singapore, McLaren Guangzhou, McLaren Osaka, McLaren Sydney, McLaren Boston, McLaren Scottsdale, McLaren São Paulo and McLaren Toronto.

“Congratulations to McLaren Toronto and all the retailers shortlisted for this year’s Global Retailer of the Year. McLaren Toronto and Lithia Motors have consistently shown high standards of business operation over the many years that we have been partnered with them. The fact that they have been selected as our Global Retailer of the Year for a second time is a testament to their hard work and success.”
George Biggs, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, McLaren Automotive

“On behalf of all at McLaren Toronto and Lithia, we are delighted to have been chosen as McLaren Automotive’s Global Retailer of the Year 2023. Pfaff Automotive Partners is incredibly proud to represent McLaren in Canada and I’m delighted that our passion to deliver the best customer experiences has been recognised.”
Chris Pfaff, President and CEO, Pfaff Automotive Partners & McLaren Toronto

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About McLaren Automotive:
McLaren Automotive is a producer of ultra high-performance, lightweight supercars. Launched in 2010, the company is now the largest part of the McLaren Group.

Headquartered at the McLaren Technology Centre (MTC) in Woking, Surrey, England, McLaren Automotive is driven by the challenge of creating the world’s most exhilarating, engaging and benchmark setting vehicles. Leveraging the McLaren name’s 60-year history of authentic, racing performance, it has delivered some of the most spectacular supercars ever made.

The company’s product portfolio of GTS, supercar, Motorsport and Ultimate models are retailed in over 40 markets around the world. Its cars are assembled by hand at the McLaren Production Centre (MPC), based on the same campus as MTC in Woking.

McLaren is a pioneer that continuously pushes the boundaries. In 1981, it introduced lightweight and strong carbon fibre chassis technology into Formula 1 with the McLaren MP4/1.

Then in 1993 it designed and built the legendary McLaren F1 road car. Built around a carbon fibre chassis, it established McLaren’s supercar DNA, realised for the 21^st century in 2011 with the introduction of the McLaren 12C – McLaren Automotive’s first production car.

McLaren was the first to deliver a hybrid hypercar, the McLaren P1™, in 2013. Launching the Ultimate Series of vehicles, P1™ was followed by the McLaren Senna in 2018 and its track-only GTR derivative followed a year later. 2019 also saw the introduction of the Speedtail hybrid hyper-GT. Its most recent Ultimate model, Elva, is the lightest McLaren road car ever.

McLaren’s LT models represent the ultimate expression of track performance in series production supercars. The name stems from the ‘Longtail’ version of the F1 GTR, introduced in 1997, and was incorporated into McLaren Automotive nomenclature in 2015 with the arrival of the McLaren 650S-based 675LT coupe and Spider. In 2018, the LT legend continued with the McLaren 570S-based 600LT. The latest chapter in the LT story was written in 2020 and 2021, with the introduction of the 765LT coupe and Spider.

Also in 2021, the company unveiled its all-new high-performance hybrid supercar, the McLaren Artura. The Artura is the first McLaren to benefit from the McLaren Carbon Lightweight Architecture (MCLA). The MCLA is designed, developed and manufactured at the McLaren Composites Technology Centre in the Sheffield region of England using world-first processes and will spearhead the brand’s electrified future.

2022 saw McLaren announce the Solus GT, a single-seat, closed-cockpit track car which brought to life a futuristic concept that was originally created for virtual gaming.

In 2023, McLaren unveiled its lightest and most powerful series-production supercar, the 750S – a thorough development of the award-winning 720S supercar. McLaren also introduced the new GTS, replacing the McLaren GT.

The McLaren Artura Spider was revealed in early 2024 as the brand’s first high-performance hybrid convertible. Its introduction was part of a major model year uplift for the Artura nameplate, and meant McLaren’s series-production line-up of GTS, new Artura and 750S had been introduced within 12 months of each other.

McLaren Automotive also chooses to partner with like-minded, world-leading companies and organisations who push the boundaries in their respective fields. These include Ashurst, Bowers & Wilkins, Dynisma, Gulf, Monroe, Pirelli, Plan International, Richard Mille and Tumi.

About McLaren Group:
The McLaren Group is a global leader in high-performance supercar production and elite motorsports.

Founded in 1963 by racer, engineer and entrepreneur Bruce McLaren, the Group is formed of McLaren Automotive, which hand-builds lightweight supercars and races them in global series, including the World Endurance Championship; and a majority stake in McLaren Racing which competes in the Formula 1 World Championship, INDYCAR series, Formula E, Extreme E and F1 Academy.

The Group is globally headquartered at the iconic McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, Surrey, England.

With a reputation for innovation and technological excellence, McLaren is one of the UK’s largest independent companies.

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