McLaren might be the newest big name on the go-fast scene (after all, Woking only returned to building road cars in 2011), but the truth is that the Brits have always led the velocity industry when it came to blurring the line between supercars and hypercars.

The line separating the two breeds was never easy to distinguish, but the British engineers have a special talent for making it nearly invisible. The latest example of that comes fro…