McLaren Automotive, commonly referred to as McLaren, is a British automotive manufacturer of high-performance vehicles. The company was established as McLaren Cars in 1989 as a producer of road cars based on Formula One technology but in 2009, a new company was formed as a different company from the McLaren Technology Group and is now owned by a group of different investors It works closely with McLaren Racing, the Formula One constructor, and is a spinoff of McLaren Group. Original public domain image from Flickr