McLaren Announces Locations for 35 Dealerships

The world has known about it for quite sometime, but the McLaren MP4-12C supercar is still a year away. Launch is set for Spring 2011, but McLaren is keeping busy until then getting the retail network ready.

While McLaren is a well-known brand name around the world, producing race cars and roadcars by itself in the 1990s and in collaboration with Mercedes-Benz in the 2000s.

In all of that though, the brand is still without a dealership network. They are basically starting from scratch. As part of the MP4-12C's global launch, the company today announced 35 dealership locations.

Demand both to buy the MP4-12C and sell it appears to be high - the company has received 2,500 expressions of interest and over 600 automotive business have requested consideration. Impressive.

Here is the list of locations for the initial 35 dealerships, listed by region.

• Europe: Birmingham, London, Manchester; Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich; Brussels; Monaco, Paris; Milan; Barcelona/Madrid; Zurich

• North America: Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, one in Orange County (not a city, McLaren!), Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Tampa; Toronto

• Middle-East / South Africa: Manama; Doha; Jeddah, Riyadh; Dubai, Abu Dhabi; Kuwait; Johannesburg

• Asia-Pacific: Hong Kong; Singapore; Sydney; Tokyo