The McLaren McL 6GT concept, revealed at Monterey Car Week, previews the company's first manual-gearbox car since the F1 of 1992.It pairs a V8 combustion engine with rear-wheel drive, a carbon fiber monocoque and styling drawn from Bruce McLaren's unfinished M6GT road car.A production version arrives in 2028, positioned above McLaren's current sports car and supercar ranges, with pricing expected beyond one million dollars. For 34 years, McLaren has not sold a single car with a clutch pedal. Not one. The last was the F1, which remains the benchmark against which every subsequent McLaren has been measured, usually unfavorably by people wearing driving gloves. So the news from Monterey Car Week is significant: the manual McLaren is coming back. The concept previewing it carries the slightly awkward name McL 6GT, and it honors the M6GT, the road car Bruce McLaren himself was developing before his death, a project that never reached production. This one will. McLaren has confirmed a production version for 2028, sitting above its current sports car and supercar lineup. A V8, Three Pedals and a Nod to Bruce McLaren Full technical details remain under wraps, but the essentials are confirmed: a V8 internal-combustion engine, a manual transmission driving the rear wheels, a lightweight carbon fiber monocoque and carbon fiber bodywork. That is the whole recipe, and frankly it is the correct one. The design leans hard on the original M6GT. That car was low, wide and long of roof, with a distinctive Kammback tail, and the new concept reinterprets all of it. The cabin sits embedded within the bodywork, the roofline flows straight into the rear deck and engine cover, and the M6GT's signature taillights return in a modern element McLaren calls the Racing Loop. The tributes go deeper. Bruce McLaren's original M6GT license plate reappears as a subtle graphic, his signature sits in the engine bay, and the Speedy Kiwi, one of the company's earliest logos, is etched onto the fuel filler cap. There is even a tiny Kiwi worked into the gearstick, which tells you exactly which component McLaren considers the star of the show. The cabin follows the same philosophy: modern digital instruments paired with knurled aluminum switchgear, physical controls and a gear lever engineered for genuine mechanical feel. McLaren is even fitting hydraulic steering rather than a purely electronic setup, because the whole point of this car is what the company describes as the forgotten art of mechanical driving. No price has been announced, but expect the production car to clear one million dollars comfortably. Which sounds like a lot, until you consider what manual McLarens tend to be worth three decades on. Ask anyone who sold an F1.
