Two finished customer W1s, one in Crystal Blue exposed carbon and one in orange-and-black MSO Carbon Tarocco, have been photographed at the end of the line in Woking. McLaren's 1,258 hp hypercar is finally about to reach owners.
The McLaren W1 is almost out the door. Photos shared by the @w1registry Instagram account show two finished customer cars at McLaren's factory in Woking, England, and both The Supercar Blog and Autoblog report they are among the first W1s headed to owners. After a long wait, McLaren's 1,258 hp successor to the P1 is about to become a real car in real garages.
Both cars were ordered through McLaren Fukuoka in Japan, according to the registry account as reported by both outlets, and the two specs could hardly be more different:
In the photos the cars still have protective covers on the seats and are sitting on factory stands, so these are finished builds rather than delivered cars. McLaren itself has not announced a first delivery or given a handover date.
McLaren revealed the W1 in October 2024 as the third car in its flagship line, after the 1992 F1 and the 2013 P1. The numbers are huge: a new 4.0-liter twin-turbo hybrid V8 making 1,258 hp and 988 lb-ft, 0 to 124 mph in 5.8 seconds, a 217 mph top speed and more than 2,200 pounds of downforce (Motor Authority, Forbes, McLaren). Only 399 will be built, every build slot was spoken for at the reveal, and the starting price was about $2.1 million.
Deliveries were promised for 2026, and reporting at the time pointed to early in the year. That timeline slipped quietly. Road & Motor noted in late September that journalists had driven the W1 by mid-2026 but no customer handover had been confirmed, while Ferrari's rival F80 started reaching owners at the end of 2025. As Autoblog points out, McLaren still has a few weeks left to hit its 2026 target, and these two cars suggest it's going to be close.
Other markets are lining up behind Japan and Taiwan. McLaren told CarExpert in September that Australian customers have commissioned bespoke W1s through MSO, and that New Zealand deliveries start in early 2027.
There are no W1s for sale in our US and Canada listings, which is what you'd expect before deliveries. The two cars it follows give a sense of where McLaren's top-tier cars sit. From our November 15, 2026 snapshot (asking prices, not sales):
So today a good Senna and a low-mile P1 are both being offered for more than the W1's roughly $2.1 million starting price. Most W1s will cost their owners well above that once MSO options are added, so that comparison is a rough one.
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