McLaren VP15 Prototype Spotted

[ShifiMofo]

Travelling down south today I stopped off at the Warwick service station on the M40 and spotted this. The pictures are a bit of a rush due to the fact that as soon as he saw me, he scuppered. There were two of them, silver and black, but I only spotted the black one way off in the distance joining the M40 after being followed by his friend in the silver one. Both left hand drive and had a nice grumble to them. It was hard to hear from the distance I was but there was an awesome sound coming from them as they joined the M40.
On the lower left sill it read "VP15 Prototype"

I'm sorry about the watermarks and small size but it's a force of habit, plus, I don't know how unseen this car actually is as a Google result didn't prove very fruitful! Also forgive the tree; I've never ran and taken photos at the same time, it was difficult to say the least with a bulky camera!






Also, sorry if this is in the wrong thread! I'm new here. I will eventually link to higher resolution images once I've done some more research, if anyone wants them that is.

[iva cosworth]

Good spot fella ,i saw 2 BMW 1 series protos with the squirly paint thing the other day....YAWN

[DannyVTS]

RX10JWJ is on the Motor Insurance Database today

The details on the MID are:

Vehicle Make/Model: MCLAREN MP4 12C
Vehicle type: PRIVATE CAR

[DannyVTS]

Looks quite a lot like the google prototype, good spot



no pictures on google yet of the real thing, good job you watermarked them tbh!

[ShifiMofo]

Danny,
If you managed to get that info then the plate for the black one was JWG at the end.

[orbital]

Yes they did sound nice, shame the girls were in the loos or we have some other images and maybe some video if I could have kept up on the Land Rover.... good grab John..

[Kinky]

Also spotted by our very own bossman Garlick on his way to Silverstone today

[DannyVTS]

ShifiMofo said:

Danny,
If you managed to get that info then the plate for the black one was JWG at the end.

Sorry i didn't even realise you got a picture of the black one!

RX10JWG is on the Motor Insurance Database today

The details on the MID are:

Vehicle Make/Model: MCLAREN MP4 12C
Vehicle type: PRIVATE CAR




(askmid.com)

[ShifiMofo]

DannyVTS said:

ShifiMofo said:

Danny,
If you managed to get that info then the plate for the black one was JWG at the end.

Sorry i didn't even realise you got a picture of the black one!

RX10JWG is on the Motor Insurance Database today

The details on the MID are:

Vehicle Make/Model: MCLAREN MP4 12C
Vehicle type: PRIVATE CAR




(askmid.com)

It's the last image. I only got one image of it as I wasn't aware that it was even there, it must have filled up or something. I was aware of the AskMID website too but didn't like the sound of "I understand it is an offence to wrongfully obtain information of this nature without reasonable cause" - I thought I'd let you do the dirty work, lol

[2 Wycked]

orbital said:

Yes they did sound nice, shame the girls were in the loos or we have some other images and maybe some video if I could have kept up on the Land Rover.... good grab John..

You make one post on average every two and a half years. That's remarkable.

[orbital]

I never have much to say.... but I spend a lot of time reading this forum.. and the photographer is my son...

[DannyVTS]

ShifiMofo said:

It's the last image. I only got one image of it as I wasn't aware that it was even there, it must have filled up or something. I was aware of the AskMID website too but didn't like the sound of "I understand it is an offence to wrongfully obtain information of this nature without reasonable cause" - I thought I'd let you do the dirty work, lol

Haha oh well, if anyone asks it's an easy mistake to get the Mclaren's reg mixed up for T620 KWG

[2 Wycked]

orbital said:

I never have much to say.... but I spend a lot of time reading this forum.. and the photographer is my son...

Sounds fair enough. 40% of your total contribution for the last 10 years have been made in the past half hour.

[Fabric 2.2]

VP stands for Validation Process, they're near production spec test mules. The number just denotes the car number, i.e: The second car was likely to be VP14/VP16.

http://www.mclarenautomotive.com/uk/insider/archiv...

[ShifiMofo]

Fabric 2.2 said:

VP stands for Validation Process, they're near production spec test mules. The number just denotes the car number, i.e: The second car was likely to be VP14/VP16.

http://www.mclarenautomotive.com/uk/insider/archiv...

Nice! Thank you very much for that. I suppose I didn't look at the McLaren website as it was "too obvious"!

I should imagine it would have been a bit more exciting to have caught a VP1 and VP2 car instead eh? lol

[ZOLLAR]

orbital said:

I never have much to say.... but I spend a lot of time reading this forum.. and the photographer is my son...

Epic lurking!.

Nice Op thanks for the pictures!.

[Lordbenny]

ShifiMofo said:

Also, sorry if this is in the wrong thread! I'm new here. I will eventually link to higher resolution images once I've done some more research, if anyone wants them that is.

Welcome to PH, you really want to be putting your 'spots' in here:

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

[phib]

Good spot saw them earlier in the day, they use our road as part of the test route
Phib