New McLaren F1

[Welshbeef]

In current Autocar mag.

Its going to smash the veyron out of the water on all acceleration runs and be a very sparse car. Price will be around the £1m mark.

[Jamirecluse]

Is it a prototype?I haven't heard anything about a new F1.

[LukeSi]

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/...

Never going to be as nice looking as the original.

[StevelKinevil]

No central position.... no good.


Don't like that roof either. I bet they are beside themselves that i won't be buying one.

[Zad]

That particular story is July 2010, and the image is Autocar's own rendering, so who knows what it might look like. I do wish they wouldn't do that.

[Melvin Udall]

Welshbeef said:

In current Autocar mag.

Its going to smash the veyron out of the water on all acceleration runs and be a very sparse car. Price will be around the £1m mark.

I wonder of a 'sparse' Veyron would keep up?

[Chicane-UK]

Whiffs a bit of the Bugatti EB110... not keen at all though!

[ZeeTacoe]

Welshbeef said:

In current Autocar mag.

Its going to smash the veyron out of the water on all acceleration runs and be a very sparse car. Price will be around the £1m mark.

So being autocar it's probably all made up

[Plotloss]

So not the half bar they reported 6 short months ago

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/...

They're making it up as they go along...

Also, you'd have thought the most successful team ever in car racing might just know a thing or two about keeping a secret?

Edited by Plotloss on Saturday 15th October 02:06

[North West Tom]

No no no no McLaren. Why do you think you have to prove yourself? Stick to the Formula 1.

Edited by North West Tom on Saturday 15th October 02:32

[Pet Troll]

Looks like the GT-90 to me!

[Hitch78]

North West Tom said:

No no no no McLaren. Why do you think you have to prove yourself? Stick to the Formula 1.

Edited by North West Tom on Saturday 15th October 02:32

Er, why?

[AUDIHenry]

Who's going to supply the engine to make over 1,200 horsepowers reliably and to meet emissions? Unless they take a smaller engine and stress the hell out of it, which I doubt would be the case. The Veyron is not just a super fast car, it's a super fast car you can use everyday. No normal person (non-petrolhead) could ever run an original F1 daily without going insane from the lack of comfort, noise, limitations, etc.

[Badgerboy]

AUDIHenry said:

Who's going to supply the engine to make over 1,200 horsepowers reliably and to meet emissions? Unless they take a smaller engine and stress the hell out of it, which I doubt would be the case. The Veyron is not just a super fast car, it's a super fast car you can use everyday. No normal person (non-petrolhead) could ever run an original F1 daily without going insane from the lack of comfort, noise, limitations, etc.

The road going F1 has a very nicely appointed cabin, and a number of creature comforts. You could easily use it as a day to day car. Any F1 that has been in for the LM conversion however is a very noisy place to be.

[m444ttb]

Chicane-UK said:

Whiffs a bit of the Bugatti EB110... not keen at all though!

That was my initial thought too. Front 1/4 was the part that did it for me.

[J4CKO]

Badgerboy said:

The road going F1 has a very nicely appointed cabin, and a number of creature comforts. You could easily use it as a day to day car. Any F1 that has been in for the LM conversion however is a very noisy place to be.

Hmmm.....

[SonnyM]

Welshbeef said:

In current Autocar mag.

Its going to smash the veyron out of the water on all acceleration runs and be a very sparse car. Price will be around the £1m mark.

Let's hope it has less issues at launch than the MP4-hyphen-12C.

[k-ink]

I'd like to see McLaren blow everything away to a degree which will never be touhed again. Simply put a body on top of their current F1 car. Sell it for £10m. It would be the final word in supercars for all time. The ultimate Top Trump. That would be a real argument stopper. So what if they only sell a few.

[Moley RUFC]

k-ink said:

I'd like to see McLaren blow everything away to a degree which will never be touhed again. Simply put a body on top of their current F1 car. Sell it for £10m. It would be the final word in supercars for all time. The ultimate Top Trump. That would be a real argument stopper. So what if they only sell a few.

Won't work. No refuelling

[750turbo]

Moley RUFC said:

k-ink said:

I'd like to see McLaren blow everything away to a degree which will never be touhed again. Simply put a body on top of their current F1 car. Sell it for £10m. It would be the final word in supercars for all time. The ultimate Top Trump. That would be a real argument stopper. So what if they only sell a few.

Won't work. No refuelling