How to Build...McLaren MP4-12C
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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
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
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...
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...
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.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.
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.Gassing Station | TV, Film, Video Streaming & Radio | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff