RE: McLaren's shocking one-off X1

[Gizmoish]

LuS1fer said:

I think they should be obliged to make concepts anonymous and wait for the good and bad comments to die down before revealing whose it is.

I am confident that had this rather bland design come from, let's say, Peugeot, that the bile would have been universal.

True, but from Peugeot it would have had a 2.0 turbodiesel, and yes, I'd have gone "meh".

This has an MP4-12C under it.

[Globs]

Gizmoish said:

LuS1fer said:

I think they should be obliged to make concepts anonymous and wait for the good and bad comments to die down before revealing whose it is.

I am confident that had this rather bland design come from, let's say, Peugeot, that the bile would have been universal.

True, but from Peugeot it would have had a 2.0 turbodiesel, and yes, I'd have gone "meh".

This has an MP4-12C under it.

Yes but the MP4-12C colour photocopier can only do 12 pages per minute, the MP4-16C has a better spec.

[entropy]

Looks like a Citroen DS made into a coupe and pumped full of steroids.

[muthaducka]

Pics of the launch / finished car today - weird - where there's money aye..

http://www.carbuzz.com/news/2012/8/19/McLaren-X-1-...

[LuS1fer]

Sort of reminds me of the ungainly proportions of the Panther Six.

[Tegis]

muthaducka said:

Pics of the launch / finished car today - weird - where there's money aye..

http://www.carbuzz.com/news/2012/8/19/McLaren-X-1-...

IF this is true "bits of museum architecture, an art deco clock, an Airstream trailer, a Montblanc pen, a grand piano, a black and white photo of Audrey Hepburn, and even an eggplant (no joke) were also used as design inspiration. " i can see why it went a bit wrong.

[Monty Zoomer]

muthaducka said:

Pics of the launch / finished car today - weird - where there's money aye..

http://www.carbuzz.com/news/2012/8/19/McLaren-X-1-...

Today?

That was months ago...

Published: Aug 19, 2012

[Fantuzzi]

Monty Zoomer said:

muthaducka said:

Pics of the launch / finished car today - weird - where there's money aye..

http://www.carbuzz.com/news/2012/8/19/McLaren-X-1-...

Today?

That was months ago...

Published: Aug 19, 2012

'what was it I was going to put up on PH, ah Ill remember in minute...'

Better late than never hey!

[muthaducka]

Fantuzzi said:

'what was it I was going to put up on PH, ah Ill remember in minute...'

Better late than never hey!

boo-lax. I remember reading this article last year but the link was in The Sun today describing it as the finished beast -a beast indeed. what next an SUV Mclaren

[carl_w]

I'm not seeing the Audrey Hepburn influences myself...