Kyle Fortune is a highly regarded freelance automotive journalist with 25 years’ experience, who regularly contributes to renowned automotive publications globally. A specialist in testing high-performance vehicles, interviewing, and feature writing, he lives in Warwickshire, UK, with his wife and three children.
Being a part of the start of McLaren Automotive was something really unique. The subsequent chapter in British sports car history flew by at a million miles an hour. We were busy! This is an amazingly detailed read that helped me re-live the technical journey and took me back to “my” period from 12C to Senna. Great times and great cars . . . -- Chris Goodwin, Chief Test Driver, McLaren Automotive Is there anything better than finding the exact thing you didn’t know you needed? That’s “McLaren: The Road Cars.” This will sound odd, but I skipped right over all the F1 and Mercedes SLR stuff—I could write up 2,000 words on the former from memory. No, I had to get to the chapter on the birth of the MP4-12C, an itch I’ve needed scratched for more than ten years now. How and why did McLaren cook up and serve what history will surely judge as the most important supercar from the first quarter of this century? Furthermore, how did that gutsy yet flawed moonshot lead, only a few years later, to the McLaren 720S, a machine I consider to be the true successor to the Lamborghini Countach? In other words, how did little McLaren reinvent the supercar? The answers to those questions, and everything else about every other McLaren road car, are all here. -- Motor Trend …written by an individual who was present throughout the development journey…the amount of new information [the author] provides is quite impressive…a highly recommended read for any McLaren owner and enthusiast. -- McLaren Life It's a chunky book and uses its length to go into detail about not only McLaren's core range, but also to cover every special edition and one-off they've done since 2010 in detail. It's definitely a comprehensive tome, and bang up to date, ending with the Artura and 750S. -- Octane Magazine …a warm and considered tribute to a company of furious dynamism…chronicles the evolution of the modern supercar from a unique perspective. It’s well with a look. -- Overrun Magazine