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McLaren invented new carbon fiber tape to build even more complex parts

It's not cheap, but this process offers better strength-to-weight properties than what you'll find in more "pedestrian" performance cars.

Carbon fiber has reached a point of borderline oversaturation, even trickling down to borderline-affordably priced performance cars in recent years. This time around, it’s pioneering the use of an aerospace industry technique known as Automated Rapid Tape Carbon—or simply ART carbon—that allows its engineers to use even less material to produce components of the same strength as previous processes, shaving precious mass from the final product. McLaren says this process offers greater design freedom for its engineers, allows them to build components with less waste, and enables more diverse use of the material in its future automotive projects.

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