McLaren dropped this photo on us yesterday of an upcoming addition to its Ultimate Series of cars, which currently includes the P1 and P1 GTR. "Its mission is to be the most extreme, track-concentrated road car McLaren has yet designed," according to the company. The car will be publicly revealed in the first quarter of 2018. We're guessing that means we'll see it in at the Geneva auto show in March.

This next car is different from the BP23, which we talked about a few weeks ago. That car gets a three-seat layout a la the classic McLaren F1.

McLaren says this unnamed car will be built for the track but be road legal, as well.

"Daily usability is being sacrificed to give the most intensive driver experience around a circuit. Its design, described as brutal, will be the purest expression yet of the company’s ‘form follows function’ philosophy."

We'll learn the name of the new McLaren hypercar before the end of this year.

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Jake Lingeman
Jake Lingeman has been with Autoweek since 2006 and career highlights include driving the Silverstone Circuit in England, taking the Corvette ZR1 around Road Atlanta and going to the 24 Hours of Le Mans. When he’s not writing about, driving, working on or thinking about cars, he’s reading liberal books and playing video games. In his opinion, the best new car in the world is the Ferrari 488 Pista. The Ford Shelby GT350, the Nissan GT-R and the Porsche 911 GT3 are favorites too. He owns a 1963 Pontiac Star Chief, a 2014 Ford Mustang GT and 1989 Mercedes-Benz 560SEL.