Most of the Vision Gran Turismo concepts designed
for the PlayStation game never leave the screen, and while some participating
automakers craft full-size mockups of their digital designs to show off, but
McLaren never did – so Amalgam did it for them.
Revealed a little over a year ago, the McLaren
Ultimate Vision Gran Turismo was designed by Alexander Alexiev under the
guidance of the company's design director Robert Melville.
It envisions what a McLaren hypercar could look like
in 2030, employing a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 (like the one in the 720S) – but
hybridized with a pair of electric motors in the front wheels offering 1,134
horsepower. Though the design may give us something of an idea of what to
expect from the unnamed Ultimate Series track car just announced, the Ultimate
Vision GT concept itself will never see production.
The closest any of us will ever get, then, may be in
the model being offered by Amalgam. At one eighth the size, it measures about
two feet long, and is offered in each of the three liveries – Performance, Noir
de Noire, and Ulterior Future – presented in the digital version.
Only 91 examples will be made, each accompanied by a
trio of early renderings signed by the designer. The first example is already
on display at McLaren's design studio in Woking. The remaining 90 (30 in each
color scheme) will be offered at a price of US$ 7,440 each (plus shipping).
Those interested will also find 1:8 scale models of
the McLaren F1, P1, and 650S in the Amalgam catalog, though we wouldn't expect
any of those to cost much less. Nobody ever said that buying a McLaren would be
cheap, after all even in reduced form.
