The British sports car company McLaren has revealed a new 1,035 horsepower three-seat hybrid supercar with a price tag of $2.25 million, or £1.75 million.

Only 106 of these cars will be made, and all of them have already been sold. About a third of them are expected to go to buyers in the United States despite the fact that, technically, the Speedtail isn't legal to drive on public streets here. But there is a way around that.

The Speedtail has three seats arranged in a triangle. The driver sits front and center with a passenger behind each shoulder. The same seating arrangement was used in McLaren's most famous supercar, called the F1, in the 1990s.

The Mclaren Speedtail is optimized for aerodynamics.

That center driving position violates US safety rules, a McLaren spokesman said. So do the pop-out video cameras that replace the car's side mirrors. Americans who have bought the car can apply for a special "show or display" exception that's often given to "technologically significant" cars that don't meet all the rules here. That same sort of exemption was given to buyers of the original F1 when it was new.

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