03-06-2004, 01:51 PM
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Future Mclaren, hopes to be on the market in 2008
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03-06-2004, 02:00 PM
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Read about it from autocar.It should be rather nice car.
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03-06-2004, 02:07 PM
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Mmmmm, I really don't know what to say, thank God Its just a concept.
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03-06-2004, 02:29 PM
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So they're gonna make a slower car than the SLR. Big deal. They should just leave the supercar making to McLaren. Mercedes is not really cut out for this. I mean they're interested more in the comfort section, which leads to compromises (see the SLR's big boot).
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03-06-2004, 03:08 PM
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Its a car to aim the ferrari market , you know , a Mclaren to fight the 911 , 360 and gallardo , but branded as mclaren
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03-06-2004, 03:46 PM
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I think I agree with you, BADMIHAI. Mercedes is a cruiserbrand. Why not let McLaren do their supercar thing, an keep the Mercedes star for the soft cruisers?
That said, it sure has potential to become a great car. It looks like most of the formula is rightexcept one thing: Automatic transmission in a sportscar? Even with 7 gears it seems wrong!
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03-06-2004, 04:10 PM
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Yea, it's like whatever. No true car enthusiast looks at this car in the same way they look at a Ferrari or Lambo.
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03-06-2004, 04:33 PM
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theyd better make a nice job, i really think ferrari topped em with the enzo vs the slr
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03-06-2004, 04:46 PM
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when they decide to put a manual shifter in the center console then I will start taking these stupid Mclaren mercedes collaborations seriously :roll:
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03-06-2004, 04:54 PM
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WAT THE F*** FLIPPIN HELL
Y If they wanna make a supercar y not just recreate the Mclaren F1 with a merc insted of a bimaz engine flip
Or they dont even have to do that just start puttin the McLaren F1 into production again i mean P8 wat the fuck kinda name is that, i mean credz to merc for the SLR.
Nut not enuf credz to mclaren they would have done stella job if mclaren had made most of the car, to say the truth i only like mercs coz i Love Mclaren, I like honda more. Im gonna shut up now coz ill go oon and on.
If they make that car ill h8 merc or atleast let mclaren do most of it
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03-06-2004, 06:53 PM
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What about the rumours of McLaren making their own line of cars? Did those not pan out?
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03-06-2004, 07:20 PM
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What really got me worried is when I read "Given M-B’s penchant for high-tech
gadgets, the P8 is likely to employ the latest in electronic driver aids, too."  .
They will have to lose all that electronic gadgetry and that automatic trans before
I select them above a Ferrari. And I certainly hope that it doesn't look like the
car in the pictures, cause if it does Ferrari and Laborghini have it beat hands
down for sex appeal. But all said I think that it does have a place in the market,
just not in the purist sector.
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Originally Posted by maalox
What about the rumours of McLaren making their own line of cars? Did those not pan out?
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I think this is the start of that plan going into practice.
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03-06-2004, 08:39 PM
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It has all the sex appeal of a computer chip.
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03-07-2004, 12:24 AM
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Im kinda dissapointed with McLaren, I wanted to see a new car that would take back the top-speed title, but this thing is only out to beat GT's and 360s.
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03-07-2004, 02:18 AM
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i don't think mclaren made that car, the back looks 100% like the old CLK models, don't u think?
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