McLaren announced on Oct. 9 that production of the 750S will end in 2027 and that final orders are open now. Henrik Wilhelmsmeyer, the company’s chief commercial officer, issued the statement in a news release, and buyers who want a new 750S are being told to order now.
Wilhelmsmeyer’s release is the company’s only public word on the end date so far, and it names no exact month for the last build, no order deadline and no production tally. The year, 2027, is the only date McLaren gave, and it stops short of saying whether the last car will be built early or late in that year.
McLaren’s statement on the final-orders release
In the words of Empty Tank’s report on the release, Wilhelmsmeyer said the 750S will “leave behind an extraordinary legacy,” and described the car as embodying benchmark performance, driver engagement, technical innovation, expressive design and personalization. The Supercar Blog carries his fuller line: “The 750S represents everything that defines a McLaren supercar.”
Autoblog’s Oct. 9 story, bylined by news editor Anton Andres, says production “will wrap up by 2027” and confirms McLaren is taking final orders, without quoting the company directly.
Autoblog frames the announcement as the close of a V8 lineage that began with McLaren’s first in-house engine. The MP4-12C introduced that V8 in 2011, the 650S followed in 2014, and the 720S and 750S carried it on. The same article reaches back further to the M6GT of the 1960s, a Chevrolet small-block-powered car of which three were built, as McLaren’s first road car. Every recent McLaren, it notes, has been a mid-engined V8, which makes the 750S the last of the line in that specific format before whatever hybrid arrives next.
The car being retired: 740 horsepower from a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8
AutoGuide’s coverage places the 750S as the 2024-model-year evolution of the 720S, with roughly 30 percent of its components reworked or replaced. Its 4.0-liter twin-turbocharged V8 makes 740 horsepower in North America, the equivalent of 750 PS elsewhere, and McLaren quotes a dry weight of 2,815 pounds. Suspension, aerodynamics and transmission calibration were retuned and the interior was rebuilt around the driver. AutoGuide adds that Car and Driver measured 0-60 mph in 2.3 seconds, which made it the quickest rear-wheel-drive car that publication had tested until the Corvette ZR1.
Kelley Blue Book’s 2027 specification page, which means the 2027 model year is still listed for sale, lists the same engine at 740 horsepower at 7,500 rpm and 590 pound-feet of torque, a base price of $375,500 and two body styles, coupe and convertible, the latter sold as the Spider. The platform’s lineage runs back to the 720S in 2017, and the same architecture produced the track-focused 765LT and the limited-run 788HS, which carries 777 horsepower and F1-inspired aerodynamics.
Successors, the Artura and the reported 2027-2028 schedule
McLaren has not announced a direct successor. Autoblog says one is touted to use some form of hybrid assistance, and describes the 750S replacement as an expected 810-horsepower supercar. AutoGuide reports a mid-engine coupe positioned above the Artura and below the 750S, with a hybrid twin-turbo V6, about 810 horsepower, a price near $315,000 and a debut “next year.”
The Artura, McLaren’s entry-level plug-in hybrid, is described by Autoblog as being dropped sooner than expected. That has not come from McLaren’s release. Autoevolution, citing Autocar in a Sept. 21 report, put the GTS exit in 2027 and the Artura exit in the first half of 2028, and attributed the schedule to Autocar’s own sources rather than to a McLaren statement. The same report ties the shuffle to a UK expansion reported at about 500 million pounds across four sites, including a new paint shop and in-house engine production, and to an SUV.
Earlier reporting sketched more detail on the cars that could follow. A November 2025 Road & Track story, republished by AOL and relaying Automotive News, described a final-edition 788HS due in 2027 with only 200 units planned in hardtop and convertible forms, a 750S replacement in 2028 to rival the Ferrari 849 Testarossa, and an Artura successor coded P34 in 2027. Those timelines were reported from industry sources then, and McLaren has not confirmed them in the Oct. 9 release.
For buyers, the working fact is narrow and dated: McLaren has said 750S production finishes in 2027, final orders are being taken as of Oct. 9, and the company has published no cutoff date for those orders. With a coupe starting at $375,500 on Kelley Blue Book’s listing, a closing order book for a car in its fourth model year is a decision measured in hundreds of thousands of dollars per buyer, and the absence of a stated deadline leaves the timing of that decision with McLaren’s retailers rather than any published calendar.
This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.
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