Thursday 5th May 2011

New McLaren Racer To Cost £310k

But our fabulous picture gallery is free (With video)

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McLaren has announced its new MP4 12C GT3 car will cost privateer racers £310k plus taxes when sales start next year.

If you're not on the list of 'favoured' customers who'll be getting one of the first 20 cars slated for delivery in 2012 - or if you're just skint like us - feel free to leer at our fabulous new picture gallery instead.

(We're also sharing an interesting video of yesterday's press conference - scroll down to find it.)

 

[soad]

Looks bloody great!!!

[Greg_D]

does anyone know how that compares to the well proven porsche, ferrari and lamborghini customer cars?

[LCR270]

AWESOME

[ZOLLAR]

I lurrrveee this picture

[Proxy]

Looooooooooove the pics
Any chance of a sneaky wallpaper or two guys? (1680x1050 preferable ... although I have 2 monitors in work, so 3360x1050 would be even better )

[QUADratic]

not always a fan of the way GT3s look over their production cousins .. but this thing looks SO much better than road goer . . . awesome

[anonymous-user]

God. That is stunning. Pic of the week?

[Rawwr]

Michael Knight phoned, he wants his steering wheel back.

[Cotty]

That looks great.

[gareth.e]

Someone needs to get one of these road registered

[Wanta996Gotta]

Looks fantastic and no doubt un-touchable on track if standard car is anything to go by.

[Rickeh]

Proxy said:

Looooooooooove the pics
Any chance of a sneaky wallpaper or two guys? (1680x1050 preferable ... although I have 2 monitors in work, so 3360x1050 would be even better )

+1 I'd have any one of these pics as my wallpaper!

[GroundEffect]

Pity it sounds rubbish

[alexpa]

Sounds like a reasonable price to me.

[Mark B]

GroundEffect said:

Pity it sounds rubbish

Eh?

[GingerWizard]

Sorry but that seems CHEAP!!!!

If only i where rich.....

Love it!!!

[GroundEffect]

Mark B said:

Eh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye6ELGVddEQ

All you can hear is turbo-charger suck. It sounds like a turbofan engine. Ew.

Compare to the Ferrari 430 GT3...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH9Shs7DKRc

Or an Aston DBRS9...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAGtu5vy2Gs

Or Gallardo GT3...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLiZBWlnnI8

Ooft

[Proxy]

GroundEffect said:

Or an Aston DBRS9...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAGtu5vy2Gs

The sound of that car always gives me shivers.
Absolutely love it

[soad]

PSBuckshot said:

Pic of the week?

Let's hope so

[shoestring7]

Greg_D said:

does anyone know how that compares to the well proven porsche, ferrari and lamborghini customer cars?

ISTR a GT2 911 is 340k - that might be Euros.

SS7

(Edited to add another 100k, sorry!)

Edited by shoestring7 on Thursday 5th May 16:03