RE: New McLaren 12C Spider - Time for tea?
Thursday 12th July 2012
You'll probably have seen the new McLaren 12C Spider by now. You'll also have seen how the 625hp roadster adds a mere 40kg in weight over the coupe version.
New McLaren 12C Spider - Time for tea?
Touring car ace Mat Jackson puts the new open-top McLaren through its paces
What you won't have seen is the new car on the move, a situation that's remedied by this lovely-looking video of the new open-top McLaren.
Behind the wheel is BTCC driver and McLaren test driver Mat Jackson, proving rather definitively that yes, the 12C will slide. And we thought racing drivers didn't like sliding...
Discussion
Looks like McLaren are trying hard to shed that rather robotic soulless image they have acquired over the years. Maybe a bit too hard, judging by the film.
Lovely car though. It will surely encourage a few night-club owners to part with their drug money.
NB: I didn't know it was actually an F1 car under the body panels
Lovely car though. It will surely encourage a few night-club owners to part with their drug money.
NB: I didn't know it was actually an F1 car under the body panels
I think I may have beaten you to it...
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
No comments on my thread though.
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
No comments on my thread though.
The joy of working 5 minutes down the road from the McLaren factory is getting to see quite a few MP4-12Cs, as they are often seen buzzing around on the local roads clad in protective sheeting on the nose and other stonechip prone areas. I guess they are customer cars on shakedown drives, and their test route coincides with my journey into work 
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Even with all the protective gubbins in place, it always strikes me how much prettier and more menacing these cars look in the metal, compared with the photos. They sound good too.
If the same holds true for the Spider, it must be astonishing in the metal. Sadly, I haven't see one yet.
. Even with all the protective gubbins in place, it always strikes me how much prettier and more menacing these cars look in the metal, compared with the photos. They sound good too.
If the same holds true for the Spider, it must be astonishing in the metal. Sadly, I haven't see one yet.
Limpet said:
The joy of working 5 minutes down the road from the McLaren factory is getting to see quite a few MP4-12Cs, as they are often seen buzzing around on the local roads clad in protective sheeting on the nose and other stonechip prone areas. I guess they are customer cars on shakedown drives, and their test route coincides with my journey into work .
Even with all the protective gubbins in place, it always strikes me how much prettier and more menacing these cars look in the metal, compared with the photos. They sound good too.
If the same holds true for the Spider, it must be astonishing in the metal. Sadly, I haven't see one yet.
You're absolutely spot on, they look quite a lot different in the metal. i was a bit 'meh' until i saw one on the road. Now I love them... just need a manual option.... Even with all the protective gubbins in place, it always strikes me how much prettier and more menacing these cars look in the metal, compared with the photos. They sound good too.
If the same holds true for the Spider, it must be astonishing in the metal. Sadly, I haven't see one yet.
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