Interview: Sheriff’s law for MP4

Posted on 15 Jun 2012 by Tim Brown

Antony Sheriff, managing director of McLaren Automotive, is one of the key people responsible for for creating arguably the fastest and most comfortable supercar on the planet, the McLaren MP4-12C. Tim Brown meets the American brains behind the car and tours the stunning McLaren Production Centre.

About nine years ago Antony Sheriff left Italian city-car manufacturer Fiat to head up McLaren’s fledgling automotive department. The aim was to create a road car division capable of semi-mass producing vehicles equal in performance to those driven on the race track by Formula 1 drivers Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button. In the years that…

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