How to Build...McLaren MP4-12C

[esvcg]

Watched this last night and thought it was very good; for the car, the factory, the workers and the processes involved.

Posting because I think any petrol head would love watching this program if they haven't already seen it.

Probably on iplayer, or your tellys on demand service.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017t722

[Vladimir]

I liked it too - pretty down to Earth, very interesting, made me want one!

[StottyZr]

Thanks for this. I love programs like this, I'll try watch it tonight. I find Megafactories is very good (especially the one on the LP670-SV)

[R300will]

Really interesting to watch. Also glad to see females getting stuck into mechanics, you don't see it often enough. My OH has no concept of what is under the bonnet apart from where the washer bottle is. Something as simple as a puncture she's stuck.

[RobCrezz]

Yeah it was a good program, few things wrong with the narration though, but thats fine if your not really picky.

[SWoll]

Loved the stuff about the colour of the rubber wheels on the castors for the transport frames being the slightly the wrong colour when delivered.

Attention to detail and all that, but perhaps a little too clinical/anal?

Still having trouble finding the car an "object of desire" though. Just seems to be missing a certain something...

[Podie]

esvcg said:

Watched this last night and thought it was very good; for the car, the factory, the workers and the processes involved.

I thought it was a bit "Fisher Price" actually. None of the testing stuff varies for any mainstream production vehicle, so the only specific McLaren bits were really the factory and the bespoke car assembly.

[grim_d]

RobCrezz said:

Yeah it was a good program, few things wrong with the narration though, but thats fine if your not really picky.

Using elephants as a unit of measurement stuck out for me.

[Mikeyplum]

SWoll said:

Still having trouble finding the car an "object of desire" though. Just seems to be missing a certain something...

I agree.

Ron Dennis said in the film that the objective was to have a decluttered environment to declutter the brain. Then, fill the end result with colour etc and that pops out from the clinical environment.

However, IMO, the car is just as clinical as the environment it was built in. Doesn't give me that urge to want one.

[RobCrezz]

grim_d said:

Using elephants as a unit of measurement stuck out for me.

This engine is a V8, which is two 4 stroke engines.... eh!

[R300will]

RobCrezz said:

grim_d said:

Using elephants as a unit of measurement stuck out for me.

This engine is a V8, which is two 4 stroke engines.... eh!

yeah that bit confused me too

[Zwolf]

SWoll said:

Attention to detail and all that, but perhaps a little too clinical/anal?

That's all part of the "brand" you're buying into as envisaged by Ron OCDennis as I understand it. He's more than a little obsessive about the minutiae as much as the big things by every account I've ever read of him.

[Matt172]

there is a thread already running here

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...