New McLaren "Grand Tourer" announced at the Geneva auto show.

It will share DNA with the three-seater Speedtail hypercar when it launches later this year.

The new car won't fit into the existing McLaren model hierarchy.

UPDATE 5/7/19: Today McLaren announced that its new supercar, which it is now just calling the GT, will make its full debut on May 15. The brand also released the first teaser photos and video of its new car without camouflage, albeit in a dark and moody studio. (We took the liberty of enhancing and brightening up the images.) This gives us a close-up look at the air intakes, rear end, lights, and some other details of the GT.

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UPDATE 4/3/19: While still wrapped in camouflage, the new "grand touring" McLaren is slowly stripping off its disguise before the big reveal next month. Here's what we've been able to glean from the latest photos from McLaren. Despite the grand touring moniker, from the shape and the proportions, the new car appears to be a two-seater. The headlights are now more clearly visible and are relatively conservative in their design compared to other more radical McLarens such as the 720s. Unless the camo has us completely fooled, the new car looks like it has a hatch similar to that of the 570GT that presumably holds the luggage of the development drivers who are driving from Spain to England as the car is shaken down before it enters production. McLaren had mentioned that the design (and possibly some of its mechanicals) would share some DNA with the Speedtail, and while it's not completely clear, we'd surmise that what they're talking about is how the rear end slopes into the long and lithe tail. That tail is now more visible and we can make out the dual exhaust and the thin LED strips that make up the taillights.

Presenting the first true surprise at this year's Geneva auto show, McLaren has announced that it will launch a new model in just a few months that will be its own interpretation of a Grand Tourer. Company CEO Mike Flewitt said the new car will "combine competition levels of performance with continent-crossing capability," and that it will be lighter and have the best power-to-weight ratio of any grand tourer on the market. He went on to say that it will share its DNA with the three-seater, 250-mph Speedtail, but gave no hint as to what that means.

So far a short teaser video has been released along with a single photo, showing the new model with a camouflage wrap. It has a similar greenhouse to the existing 570GT, with a long rear deck and a convex engine cover/hatch that could contain a cargo area. Details are hard to discern, but we can see what looks like a cutout for an active rear spoiler, a simple rear diffuser, and thin LED lights. Flewitt says the car will be beautiful and elegant, with a spacious interior that makes it "the most usable mid-engined car yet." We think it's unlikely that the new car will share the Speedtail's three-seat layout, but we'll keep our fingers crossed.

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Flewitt also said the new car will be "a unique, tailored model" that won't fit into McLaren's current model tiers, which consists of Sports Series (570S/570GT and 600LT), Super Series (720S), and Ultimate Series (Senna and Speedtail). McLaren says the car's name will be released in the next few months, as will additional details. The car is part of the company's Track25 business plan, in which it plans to release nearly two dozen new cars by 2025; it will be the fourth model to be revealed so far.

Stay tuned for more details on McLaren's surprising new model.

This story was originally published on March 5, 2019.

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