While McLaren has been one of the holdouts so far, preferring the dynamic purity and lower mass of rear-wheel-drive systems, the company is now contemplating an all-wheel driven future.

While some supercar manufacturers have embraced the traction of all-wheel drive, McLaren has so far remained resolutely attached to a rear-drive configuration. That may change in the future, however.

McLaren is known for its engineering prowess of late and any move to all-wheel drive would again involve quite an innovative approach rather than just connecting the front and the rear.

Caldwell also initiated the detachable steering wheel, another M23 first. Hunt arrived at McLaren in 1976, desperate to prove that his performances the previous season in the self-consciously ...

precisely 50 years since Emerson Fittipaldi sealed the company’s first Formula 1 Drivers’ and Constructors’ World Championship victories at the wheel of the McLaren M23. The letter W nodding ...

Caldwell also initiated the detachable steering wheel, another M23 first. Hunt arrived at McLaren in 1976, desperate to prove that his performances the previous season in the self-consciously ...