McLaren look to the future with Ron Dennis’ dream

Ron Dennis' move away from Formula One to concentrate on McLaren's new road car appears to be paying dividends, with the group set to open a new factory in Woking that will employ 800 people and produce 4,000 cars per year.

A number of those employees could be veterans of McLaren's Formula One operations, especially if future budget cuts in the sport take effect.

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"Ever since we revealed the McLaren F1 sports car in 1992, it has been a long-held dream of mine to launch a McLaren sports car company," said Dennis on the McLaren website. "Designing, developing and selling globally the best sports cars in the world is just half of that equation; building them to previously unmatched levels of quality, with ground-breaking technologies in a production facility in the UK is key to satisfying that dream."

He added: "It would be easy enough to consider building McLaren sports cars in existing productive and experienced foreign factories; a number of which are knocking on our door. However, McLaren is a great British company founded over 40 years ago that should, in my view, continue to design and build our own products."

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