McLaren

The McLaren Group, based at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, Surrey, England, is a group of companies created by Ron Dennis, described by the International Herald Tribune as "a small conglomerate". The subsidiary the Asphalt games focus on is McLaren Automotive, the manufacturer of McLaren-badged vehicles.

Motorsport Origins
The Group was originally formed from the team established by New Zealander Bruce McLaren in 1963 and has a big motorsport focus, mainly in Formula One, the premier open wheel racing series of the FIA and the world. They started competing in Formula One in 1966, and since then have won 8 constructors and 12 drivers championships with famous drivers like Alain Prost, the late Aryton Senna, who helped develop Honda's(Acura in US and Canada sales) NSX, Mika Häkkinen, and David Coulthard, to name a few.Their most recent Drivers Championship in 2008 with (at the time of writing) 3-time and defending World Drivers Champion Lewis Hamilton during the McLaren-Mercedes era. They currently compete as McLaren-Honda, with World Champions Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button. This marks the revival of one of the most dominant engine and constructor teams the sport has ever seen.

Automotive
They appear as a car manufacturer in the Asphalt series. Their first road car, the McLaren F1 (named after the sport) was highly technologically advanced for its time, using Formula One technology like a carbon-fiber monocoque and a BMW V12 engine to propel it to 240 mph, making it the fastest road car until the Koenigsegg CC came along. To this day the car can still keep pace with modern supercars and hypercars. During the McLaren-Mercedes Formula One partnership, they created the Mercedes SLR McLaren, built in Woking. In 2009, following the end of production of the SLR McLaren, They created the 12C, their first individual road car since the F1, following it up with the spider variant, currently seen in Asphalt 8. in 2014, they replaced it with the 650S, a reworking of the 12C, which forms the Super Series of McLaren models. They followed it up with the P1, McLaren's first hybrid supercar and one member of the "Holy Trinity" of hypercars, alongside the LaFerrari and Porsche 918. They followed it up with the P1 GTR, which competes with the FXX K and completes McLaren's Ultimate Series. They finish the Super Series by creating the McLaren 675LT (LT for Long Tail) and MSO 688HS ( HS for High Sport), track-focused but road legal supercars, competing with Ferrari's 488 GTB. Their Newest edition, the 570S, starts a new series targeted at the Porsche 911 called the Sport Series.

Other Ventures
In recent years, the group has branched out to other precision manufacturing areas, such as motorized devices for the solar and wind industries. The company now consists of a number of different businesses including Food (Absolute Taste) and now creates an animated children's series named Tooned, the first for McLaren Animation. For three years, McLaren Group's technology subsidiary McLaren Applied Technologies works closely with GlaxoSmithKline (makers of Sensodyne, Boost etc.) Together they also plan to open a new building at the McLaren Technology Centre, called the McLaren-GSK Centre for Applied Technology.

Asphalt 8 Airborne
Class A Cars
 * McLaren 12C Spider

Class S Cars
 * McLaren P1
 * McLaren 675LT
 * McLaren 570S
 * McLaren P1™ GTR
 * McLaren F1 XP-5