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SupercarFest 2026

by John Thorne | 27th November 2025 | Events, Latest News, Mclaren News | 0 Comments

After a 5 year break from doing any shows in the UK we are back next year with our own usual style at #Supercarfest in May 2026. We aren't just turning up with a little trade stand, this is different, we are here to give something back to our customers, supporters and...

Expanding our McLaren Engine Building Operation

by John Thorne | 26th November 2025 | Latest News, Mclaren News | 0 Comments

This is a very satisfying announcement for us as its something we've been trying for many years. We've been building and rebuilding McLaren engines for over 10 years and in all that time we have worked with just one guy - Dave from Race Engine Build. Its fair to say...

How to Own a McLaren for Free – buy and sell through Thorney Motorsport!

by John Thorne | 22nd October 2025 | Latest News, Mclaren News | 0 Comments

https://youtu.be/mEq3J72NIzU?si=sIpo0RtenG0Y1Szw Well, not always free but see below and you'll see its not far off! We had a very simple motivation for getting into McLaren sales - get properly prepared cars into the market to try and stem the tide of poor McLarens...

McLaren Suspension Damper Refurbishment

by John Thorne | 3rd July 2025 | Latest News, Mclaren News | 0 Comments

It never made sense to us that any failure of a McLaren suspension unit required a complete replacement rather than repair so several years ago we developed a replacement spring for all the McLaren models which was a direct OEM replacement and since then we have sold...

McLaren Owners Club UK Customer Survey

by John Thorne | 4th November 2024 | Latest News, Mclaren News | 0 Comments

Delighted to be able to share the news that we have had an overwhelmingly positive response to our services from the McLaren Owners Club UK. Every year the UK Club, which is well known to McLaren themselves, undertakes a survey of their members all for the level of...

McLaren Car Canopies

by John Thorne | 24th May 2024 | Latest News, Mclaren News | 0 Comments

People always ask (usually when they drive down and see we have more McLarens here than the UK dealers combined!) what it is we do that gives us our success and my reply is very simple - every car that comes down our driveway we treat as if it is our own car. There...

McLaren Exhaust Upgrades

by John Thorne | 24th May 2024 | Custom Exhausts News, Latest News, Mclaren News | 0 Comments

TMS CUSTOM MCLAREN EXHUASTSWe have been designing and building sports exhausts for over 20 years, initially working with a variety of suppliers and then bringing the whole process from design to construction in house where we hand made all our exhausts here at...

McLaren Service Schedule

by John Thorne | 20th November 2023 | Latest News, Mclaren News | 0 Comments

A lot of our work now is for owners Worldwide via our International dealers and its come to our attention that the is a huge variance on service costs from region to region and even dealer to dealer. Some of this is explained by differences in labour rates, currency...

My retirement from Racing

by John Thorne | 15th November 2023 | BMW Racing, CSL Cup, Latest News, Off Road Racing, Other Series, Racing News | 0 Comments

Yep, I’m afraid after 17 years of racing the time has come for me to retire from competitive motorsport. Now this doesn’t mean Thorney Motorsport will no longer be motorsport, far from it, motorsport is in our DNA and is part and parcel of everything we develop and...

Britcar Trophy End of Season Report

by John Thorne | 16th October 2023 | BMW News, Latest News | 0 Comments

Hmmm. Not sure we can really call this a successful season really. We had some ups with some good results early on, then some downs with multiple gearbox issues outside of our control and then ended on an up with a couple of 4th places and Callum winning driver of the...

SupercarFest 2026

Expanding our McLaren Engine Building Operation

How to Own a McLaren for Free – buy and sell through Thorney Motorsport!

McLaren Suspension Damper Refurbishment

McLaren Owners Club UK Customer Survey

McLaren Car Canopies

McLaren Exhaust Upgrades

McLaren Service Schedule

My retirement from Racing

Britcar Trophy End of Season Report

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