McLaren P1 production has ended. Sad face

A moment of silence, please, for the McLaren P1.

The final one has rolled off the production line, drawing to a close the most technologically advanced, if not quite the fastest, chapter of McLaren’s road car career so far.

All 375 P1s have now been produced, with P1 one (silver) and P1 375 (orange) pictured together below. Two years and three months separate their production, with each P1 taking around 800 hours to produce, 105 different people involved in the manufacturing of each one.

North and South America received most of P1 production – around 34 per cent – with Europe getting a quarter of the 375-strong run. But it’s an understatement to say creating a modern-day successor to the legendary McLaren F1 was never going to be easy.

So instead of aiming to best its 388kph top speed and utterly driver-focused ethos, McLaren instead looked to make one of the cleverest supercars of all time.

Technological highlights are numerous. How about a 903bhp petrol-electric drivetrain? Downforce levels akin to a ginormously winged GT3 racing car? Braking components influenced by space travel?

Of course there was performance, too, with a 2.8-second 0-100kph time, a 350kph top speed and a sub-seven minute lap of the Nürburgring.

Don’t shed too many tears, though; the end of P1 production simply means that manufacturing of its simply deranged - and  ven quicker - track sibling, the P1 GTR, can get into full swing. Every cloud, and all that…