Koenigsegg now, a great video

Koenigsegg now, a great video

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Turbofun

1,396 posts

209 months

Friday 8th June 2012
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Great video all very interesting stuff...... now how do you get to be a test driver ..
thanks for sharing - now subscribed smile

RevHappy

1,840 posts

163 months

Friday 8th June 2012
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Tom73 said:
Obviously some reverse engineering.
They are going is work out a sat nav that works biggrin

HeavySoul

9,246 posts

220 months

Friday 8th June 2012
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Sexual Chocolate said:
He is quite proud of his hinge isn't he.
He should be - it is a great piece of work.

Tom73

190 posts

170 months

Saturday 9th June 2012
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RevHappy said:
They are going is work out a sat nav that works biggrin


Above; proud McLaren rep ensuring JF it's not a "laboratory" (don't be intimidated) but a part of McLaren Electronics where they build ECUs and circuit boards. It's "very high end stuff", he says ("stuff" of course being a technical term above and beyond the comprehension of us non-technocrats).

Below; "meanwhile in a old hangar located in Sweden...", Christian von Koenigsegg explains the relationship between manual modification and 3D-printing in the small work area where they make ECUs or curcuit boards such as the one for the center console on the bottom.






Results?

"The photo below shows a McLaren service center in England last week with at least three MP4-12CS present for a repair to their door-opening mechanisms. It's a bugaboo that McLaren is reportedly ordering to every MP4-12C built so far after several reports of the scissor doors failing in wet conditions and problems with the touch-sensor opening.

If that was the only issue, there wouldn't be much hubbub. But its not.

Several McLaren owners have reported a cornucopia of other problems, including the vehicle immobilizer, brake hoses, navigation systems that won't work and even defective glass seals around the engine cover. One British owner detailed a Lucas-esque level of electrical gremlins: a screen stuck on Feb. 23 in September, telling him his next service was due in 26,000 days, leaving the radio on five minutes after the car had been parked and warning him three of his tires had been punctured."

http://jalopnik.com/5843016/is-the-mclaren-mp4+12c...

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MogulBoy

2,937 posts

224 months

Monday 23rd July 2012
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Finally caught up with this video. What a fascinating insight. Every indecently wealthy petrolhead should have one.