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HeilSvenska
09-08-2009, 10:11 PM
Click for more info.

http://cache-foo-03.gawkerassets.com/gawker/assets/images/12/2009/09/500x_mclarenp112.jpg (http://jalopnik.com/5355073/mclaren-mp4+12c-first-photos-details)

3.8-litre McLaren M838T 90-degree V8 Twin Turbo
seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox
~600bhp and 443lb ft
mayer
09-08-2009, 10:49 PM
Nice specs on the car. I hope that's just an artist's guess/rendering because it looks like shit.
r2r
09-08-2009, 10:52 PM
One of the most unoriginal and boring designs.

What a shame!
MidEngine4Life
09-08-2009, 10:56 PM
Looks great!(Though looks a bit like a Saleen rip off) Better than anything Ferrari is offering at the moment or near future. The one thing that bugs me is this.... Why the hell dont they name these cars. At this rate my grandson will have a poster of the "Lamborghini 7823-4587GHT488" on his wall
HeilSvenska
09-08-2009, 11:17 PM
Nice specs on the car. I hope that's just an artist's guess/rendering because it looks like shit.

No! Official press shots, fresh off the embargo!
mayer
09-09-2009, 12:23 AM
^I didn't click on the picture originally and read the release. OMG!!! That looks like shit. :ohmy::laugh: That looks like something a small manufacturer like Noble would make. It looks so generic...hell, the new Noble M600 looks better.

http://www.netcarshow.com/noble/2010-m600/

EDIT: more pictures of the car with the Mclaren F1. Geez, the Ueno Clinic car looks so good next to this cookie cutter crap. At least it'll perform well.

http://www.evo.co.uk/news/evonews/241471/new_mclaren_supercar.html
MidEngine4Life
09-09-2009, 05:33 AM
I just noticed something else it looks like.....
http://www.rsportscars.com/eng/articles/images01/kz1_hollywood01.jpg
a007apl
09-09-2009, 09:35 AM
Jay Leno Gets Up-Close Look at New McLaren Supercar - YouTube
10000rpmlover
09-09-2009, 10:22 AM
this looks like an Ascari... oh wait, someone already noticed

hopefully it isn't a stripped down uncomfortable piece of junk like the Ascari, hopefully it will not be priced like a malibu condo, WTF? the original F1 went for a million bucks on its heyday, and now it tips the scales at over 1.8 cools
5vz-fe
09-09-2009, 11:35 AM
Maybe it really is an Ascari chassis with Mclaren "tuning" + engine
enzoferrari
09-09-2009, 12:29 PM
Not what I was expecting :( I'll take a 458 or GT2 over that any day.
mayer
09-09-2009, 01:19 PM
Not what I was expecting :( I'll take a 458 or GT2 over that any day.

GT3 RS better. :-)

This is a bigger disappointment lookwise than the Merc SLS. What a tacky interior to match the generic bulbous exterior.
fordgt84
09-09-2009, 03:08 PM
it just doesn't look special enough...everything about its exterior and interior is average (and i'm sure that steering wheel is a retouched mercedes unit).

the only thing that will save it is its performance...in many ways mclaren are a victim of their own success, the F1 set the benchmark so high up, that even they are struggling to make something better.
mayer
09-09-2009, 04:57 PM
HI-RES:
http://www.netcarshow.com/mclaren/2011-mp4-12c/
r2r
09-09-2009, 06:38 PM
@ MidEngine4Life (http://www.motorworld.net/forum/member.php?u=3201)

Ha, Looks like I was spot on with my comment about unoriginal design!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjsFhxqPCd0

It's sad to see Jay Leno, a man who owns some many cool cars, sells himself to Mclaren so fast. :thumbdown:

My biggest question is tp know how much involvement/say did Gordon Muray have in this project!
HeilSvenska
09-09-2009, 07:19 PM
My biggest question is tp know how much involvement/say did Gordon Muray have in this project!
Seeing how conventional it looks/reads, not much or none probably.
r2r
09-09-2009, 07:50 PM
not much or none probably.

That would be very good news!
Mattk
09-12-2009, 12:58 AM
Who cares what it looks like. It probably goes really fast. That's why people buy it.
Minacious
09-12-2009, 03:00 AM
I don't think it is a bad looking car by any means, but like fordgt84 (http://www.motorworld.net/forum/member.php?u=3372) said, it just doesn't look special enough. The sound and performance are going to really have to hit it out of the park to complete the package.

Just looking at the car should make grown men giggle like school girls and that just isn't happening for me here. Again, not a bad looking car, but definitely doesn't have the wow factor. It has a "design student" look to it.

Time will tell what the entire package will do.

Regardless of all of this talk, it will sell like crazy.