The 2011 Formula 1 German Grand Prix takes place at the Nürburgring this coming weekend, so it’s only appropriate that McLaren Automotive opened the doors to two of four planned showrooms in Germany today.
Mclaren plans to open 35 dealerships this year for sales and service of a range of McLaren cars, beginning with the 2012 MP4-12C. The plan is for every showroom to exhibit a piece of history highlighting McLaren’s heritage with a real McLaren race car.
Customers in Düsseldorf can look forward to seeing MP4/5, which took Alain Prost to a world championship title in 1989, while Hamburg’s F1 enthusiasts will be able to check out MP4/6, the car in which Ayrton Senna won his third, and last championship title, in 1991.
The first McLaren showroom opened in London last month and was quickly followed by ones in Birmingham and Manchester.
Following the opening of the Düsseldorf and Hamburg showrooms the other eight European cities, that will be lucky enough to see McLaren showrooms grace their city, will include Frankfurt and Munich in Germany; Brussels, Belgium; Paris, France; Monte Carlo, Monaco; Milan, Italy; Madrid, Spain and Zürich, Switzerland.
In the Fall ten showrooms are scheduled to open in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Newport Beach, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Tampa in the U.S. and Toronto, Canada.
The Middle East will get six showrooms in Bahrain; Qatar; UAE (Abu Dhabi and Dubai) and Saudi Arabia (Jeddah and Riyadh). The remaining six showrooms will be in South Africa (Johannesburg); Hong Kong; Singapore; Australia (Sydney) and Japan (Tokyo and Osaka).
By the way, if your name happens to be Jay Leno you are one of the first customers to own a $229,000 MP4-12C. It’s worth checking out this video capturing Leno visiting the McLaren factory in Woking, England and then receiving lessons on how to drive his car from Chris Goodwin, McLaren Automotive’s chief test driver.
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