Geneva 2012: Mansory McLaren MP4-12C
Wonder what the folks in Woking will make of this one...
Set to be unveiled at the Geneva motor show, the Mansory MP4-12C takes more or less everything that wasn't carbon fibre, and makes it carbon fibre (roof, the front or rear apron, the mirror housing, the wings).
As a result of all that modding Mansory claims its ministrations reduce the car's weight, and so improve acceleration, braking, fuel consumption and agility.
That said, those improvements in performance might just be something to do with the tweaked exhaust, air filter and engine management system bringing power up to 670hp, torque to 498lb ft and the top speed to 220mph.
Topping off the custom job are 20-inch wheels with 245/30ZR20 tyres at the front, and 21-inch items with 305/25ZR21.
It is of course a case of different strokes for different folks for these sorts of things, and we're sure there's a market for this sort of thing. But we're equally sure that a certain Mr R Dennis of Woking wouldn't approve...
To guard a title that was rich before,
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess."
King John, Shakespeare
d up to 1000 bhp, put a 400k price tag on it and make the Veyron look like what it is.. an overpriced, over engineered rich mans willy on wheels.
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