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...
Latest News
Expanding our McLaren Engine Building Operation
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....
How to Own a McLaren for Free – buy and sell through Thorney Motorsport!
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 out there. Our view was that we can improve the...
McLaren Suspension Damper Refurbishment
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
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
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....
McLaren Exhaust Upgrades
TMS CUSTOM MCLAREN EXHUASTS We 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
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
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
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...
Our McLaren Paint shop Operation
We’ve been preparing and repairing McLaren bodywork for near 10 years however its not something we really marketed as for the most part paint defects were fully covered by McLaren for 10 years so if and when we saw issues we simply referred owners to their local...
New Car Park
They say a good business is always investing back into its customers so we hope our customers will recognise the investment we have made into our new car park and yard because we had to sell our McLaren 720s Spider to pay for it all! To be honest there is also some...
Africa Trust
A little while ago we took two cars in for sale from an owner who sadly died in a car crash. Paul was a lovely chap, a real petrol head and we had got to know him pretty well as we do with a lot of our customers so his death was quite a shock. In the process of...
Change your battery on your McLaren
We've been hearing of a few customers who have either been screwed on pricing for a battery replacement or are losing their cars for months at a time waiting for a new battery and we are bit amazed at this as there is a simple solution to both issues - simply swap the...
SEMA Show – Become a Thorney Motorsport Independent McLaren Specialist
SEMA is the Worlds largest specialist car show and 2022 did not disappoint with record numbers of both exhibitors and attendees, however our attendance was not to show off a car but to expand our Thorney Motorsport Independent McLaren Specialist dealer network. In the...
McLaren Owners Club Open Day
We dont have too many open days here, we are just too busy but its a shame as they are great fun and we get to meet up with old friends and new ones alike, this year was the best yet. All up we had 55 cars attend and everyone enjoyed the BBQ, refreshments and got the...
McLaren Owners Club Silverstone Event
After the great success of last years event we were looking forward to this year and it didnt disappoint, whats not to like? Meet up with McLaren owners, chat about cars, watch and drive your car round Silverstone circuit then dinner and beers at a local hotel....
Thorney Motorsport Britcar 2022
After some pretty bad luck last year we are hoping that this season will treat us a little better and we’ve decided to step up ( back to) the Britcar Trophy for 2022. We say back as we’ve been in Britcar before, albeit in the 24hr races where we have...
BMW Racing, end of Year Report
Usually we do a whole season of reports for our BMW racing, a blow by blow account of each race, how we did and how things are going but its safe to say that this year has been a little different. First of all Covid meant the season was about as screwed up as was...
UK McLaren Owners Club Meeting
We were honoured to host a meeting for the UK McLaren Owners Club where we go the chance to catch up with old friends and make new ones. A full variety of McLarens attended and it was nice to see the workshop car park full of McLarens that weren't all here for work!...



















