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“A 17-year-old youth activist has become the Chief Executive Officer of luxury supercar maker McLaren Automotive for the day to celebrate International Day of the Girl and encourage young people, and particularly young women, into science and engineering careers.”
No updates that I’ve seen from the earlier delay reports. This appeared in the Sept H1 investors report “Customer deliveries of the McLaren Artura will commence in Q4 2021 due to delays in the final sign off and certification as a result of the pandemic and following a global media test drive in October”
Yes It’s a charity that McLaren supports
Plan International - Advancing children's rights and equality for girls
Plan International advances children's rights and equality for girls in more than 75 countries in over 80 countries
plan-international.org
“11 Oct 2021
A 17-year-old youth activist has become the Chief Executive Officer of luxury supercar maker McLaren Automotive for the day to celebrate International Day of the Girl and encourage young people, and particularly young women, into science and engineering careers.
Maisy, from Wales, took over the reins from McLaren Automotive CEO Mike Flewitt, as part of McLaren Automotive’s long-term partnership with global children’s rights charity Plan International.
It comes as McLaren highlights Plan International’s new research* today showing that 1 in 4 (25%) girls aged 11 to 18 have wanted to try out a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) subject or job but have either been told it is for boys, were worried about being negatively judged, or were unsure since they only saw boys doing it in the media.
It also showed that nearly half of girls (47%) have heard through media, friends, or family that ‘girls are not good at STEM’.
“My day as CEO of McLaren Automotive was full of incredible moments but being part of building a supercar was amazing, and that’s not something many people can say.
“Plan International is about smashing stereotypes, changing attitudes, and unlearning lessons because a lot of girls think they should be playing with dolls and not cars, and that’s not right.
“This partnership between McLaren Automotive and Plan International is inspiring young women to consider STEM careers and achieve their full potential.”
Maisy, CEO for the day, McLaren Automotive
Maisy started the day with a handover from CEO Mike Flewitt, where he presented her with CEO business cards and her McLaren CEO access pass.
The day included leading her executive team in strategic decisions as well as collaborating with many of the company’s female business leaders, engineers, scientists, and designers.
CEO Maisy gained an understanding of every aspect of the process of designing, engineering, building and marketing supercars and helped to hand-build a McLaren, including putting on the all-important McLaren badge as the finishing touch to one of the company’s new hybrid supercars, the McLaren Artura.
Maisy also met brand ambassador Amanda McLaren, daughter of company founder Bruce McLaren, at a new “McLaren: Driven by Design” exhibition at Brooklands Museum which features a full-scale LEGO 720S supercar, before having a CEO preview of some of McLaren’s top-secret future supercar designs and a passenger test run in a McLaren GT.
“Having Maisy take over as CEO of McLaren for the day to celebrate International Day of the Girl has been both an enjoyable and valuable experience for me and the whole McLaren team. Her ideas, insights and intelligence – as well as clear passion - will help us move forwards even faster on our efforts to achieve even greater diversity and inclusion.
“Maisy also got to see the incredibly exciting and diverse range of talents we depend on to produce our supercars and I hope, in the process, she has helped to dispel stereotypes associated with the automotive industry from a gender and skills perspective.
“Our work with Plan International is for the long-term and I’m delighted that one of the key decisions Maisy led on as CEO was our pledge to work with Plan International on McLaren’s commitment to holding workshops with 100 girls over the next 12 months, scaling up to 1000 globally by 2025 to encourage greater take-up of STEM careers. That is a legacy Maisy and everyone at McLaren can be very proud of.”
Mike Flewitt, Chief Executive Officer, McLaren Automotive.”
Don’t think VIN can be used anymore for tracking of McLaren shipping to USA …. Need bill of lading or booking number or customer ref number. Not sure if your dealer can get the BOL number for you.
Yes he has a VIN (car is produced?) so I thought his question was about tracking shipment to USA ….
Yeah there is a problem — was told that cars have been built and are still at factory - no cars on West Coast until January. Not good for financials …
It appears that Flewitt kept the production line running (consuming $) in a gamble (pity didn’t pan out) that the software problem would be solved in time to ship the cars before year end. Now the money has run out and the company is stuck with cars in an unsalable state and has to find bridge financing again ….
( Oh well sell the remainder of F1 to Andretti? … )
( Oh well sell the remainder of F1 to Andretti?
… )Thought Artura V6 engine is being built by Ricardo?
Yes kinda. - from MotorSport “a 3-litre V6 engine designed from scratch by McLaren. It will however to continue to be assembled by Ricardo”
Not sure where McLaren got the experience to ‘design from scratch’ but ….. Ricardo would be a good partner
Check out the Maserati MC20 engine and the Ferrari 296GTB both are120Degree V6’s, designed and built in their respective factories, they are very similar ICE motors to the McLaren Artura V6.
The Bizarre V-6 in McLaren's Newest Supercar Is Unlike Any Other Engine
McLaren's new entry-level hybrid uses an engine layout never seen on a production car before.www.roadandtrack.com
There is not much published on the head design of the McLaren/Ricardo V6 so I’m not sure whether the design includes an pre chamber ignition.
My earlier quote was from Andrew Frankel well known in UK.
2021 McLaren Artura revealed: why it's critical to the company's future
McLaren's hybrid Artura is its first all-new road car for over a decade and will be the basis of the entire model range.
www.motorsportmagazine.com
Well I was just connecting dots … don’t take it as gospel
We know at least 310 Artura’s have been built - saw that on the video. We also know shipment has been delayed again, and we know Mike Flewitt resigned …. 😇
Oh that’s a pity, suspect McLaren may not know either at this time — what will your new Avatar photo look like?
It is a screen capture at 1:16 from the video in the first post 😃
Thank CEO for the day Maisy! Congratulations …
Yes - I haven’t seen any photos of the Artura in Plateau Grey. It appears to be a black/dark - gray from this …
Took your quote from the 765LT Spider thread 😃
Will the Q3 Artura be a model year 2022 or a model year 2023 with new pricing?
Is that before or after the sale to VAG?
Wow could be any of a number of problems I guess - ambitious project with many new elements. FWIW I’ve been screwed by software development delays during my working career ..
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