How McLaren’s boss went from a flop to the fast lane
McLaren had a history of failure when it came to on-road cars, but CEO Mike Flewitt took on the challenge.
“I’d always wanted to take something in the UK and make it a competitor to Ferrari and Porsche”: Englishman Mike Flewitt scored his dream job when he became CEO
of McLaren in 2013. Louie Douvis
Mike Flewitt was once near the very top of the automotive industry. He’d risen from the factory floor to running Ford Motor Company’s manufacturing in Europe, building 9000 cars a day across 23 factories.
Yet he walked away to join a sports car outfit that would, if the sheer weight of history was anything to go by, almost certainly fail. Ninety-nine per cent of carmakers go belly up, and the one he agreed to join, McLaren Automotive, was already in trouble.
