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I just want this car to be as good as the F1 to satisfy the outrageous purist driver spirit in u
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It won't have Mercedes Benz interfering with it and that's all the purity I need Tarek.
LOL - Just kidding, honest - I had to pull that one when you opened the door...
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Actually i knew u'd come back at MB for what i said,just poking some fun
But we both know that is the truth,the less MB DNA the more u like it
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Lol
Actually i knew u'd come back at MB for what i said,just poking some fun
But we both know that is the truth,the less MB DNA the more u like it
I think McLaren will wisely stick to the old formula of the F1 roadcar. But with new aerodynamics, lights, better brakes, steering, tyres, gearbox, and comfort.
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The caparo thing ?
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I meet Ron Dennis to day but refrained from asking questions about the P11 as he was trying to shop unnoticed in the women's department in Harrods, and was caught of guard when I abruptly walked up to him and said "You are Ron Dennis, correct?".
As for the car itself, I'm not stoked at all. The Gallardo/F458 segment is very competitive today and with a rather small budget I doubt that Mclaren will be able to trumph the 458, Porsche 998 and up and coming LP560 replacement. It will fit in rather than raising the bar because the shoes of the F1 are just too big to fill.
As for the car itself, I'm not stoked at all. The Gallardo/F458 segment is very competitive today and with a rather small budget I doubt that Mclaren will be able to trumph the 458, Porsche 998 and up and coming LP560 replacement. It will fit in rather than raising the bar because the shoes of the F1 are just too big to fill.
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Gordon Murray didn't have anything to do with Caparo, though some other ex McLaren engineer(s?) did. But I think Murray is working on another car or so he claims.
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The only other project he's working on is the city vehicule but that's still work in progress.
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McLaren MP4-12C: F1’s best bits in a road car...
(The Sunday Times, 6 September 2009)
When it is unveiled this week the new McLaren road car is expected to be the final word in supercar excess. For Ron Dennis it is just the beginning. The McLaren boss has outlined a strategy to create a global supercar brand with a stable of high-performance models. In an interview with The Sunday Times this weekend, Dennis reveals plans to build three new models over the next six years, eventually churning out 4,000 cars a year (Ferrari makes about 6,000). “We’re building more than one car; we’re building a brand,” he says.
The first of the three will be unveiled on Wednesday and is scheduled to go on sale in 2011. Until now it has been known only by its codename, P11, but the new model will be sold as the MP4-12C, a name that echoes the company’s history in Formula One racing, according to Dennis. It is one of the most keenly awaited cars of the decade and will follow in the tyre tracks of the McLaren F1 supercar, launched in 1991. In its day, with a top speed of 240mph, the F1 held the title of the world’s fastest road car.
The MP4-12C will feature many technical innovations gleaned from the company’s racing division, but it is clearly aimed at being a 200mph-plus supercar for everyday use too: self-adjusting suspension varies the damper settings to ensure a soft ride for urban driving, then stiffens up to improve driving dynamics and handling as speeds increase. Power comes from a V8 engine, controlled via a seven-speed gearbox.
As well as old-school supercar touches such as gull-wing doors, the car will feature modern creature comforts including a wi-fi connection, which enables owners to download maps and music to the car’s onboard computer, while a “floating” centre console similar to the one found in some Volvos gives the interior a futuristic feel.
The MP4-12C will cost £150,000 and McLaren hopes to sell 1,000 in the first year. It will be followed by two more as yet unnamed sports cars bearing the McLaren badge by 2015. The first will be an entry-level model to rival the standard Porsche 911, which costs from £60,000; the second, a model to fill the gap left by the discontinued Carrera GT, which cost £330,000 in 2004.
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McLaren takes on Ferrari and Lamborghini in supercar race...
(The Sunday Times, 6 September 2009)
Ron Dennis is driving a £400m plan to take on the likes of Ferrari...
Ron Dennis likes winning and is not shy about it. There is more silverware in the car-strewn “boulevard” outside his office than in the Manchester United boardroom.
Even the tacky cups are on display — two in the shape of giant sherry bottles. But there won’t be any more baubles for a bit. Dennis, who quit Formula One in April after his McLaren team was embroiled in one of the worst scandals in the sport’s history, has a new goal. The king of the pit lane wants to be king of the fast lane.
Dennis, 62, is sinking the millions he made with McLaren, whose drivers include world champion Lewis Hamilton, into a new firm, McLaren Automotive. He believes it will create the best sports car in the world, outclassing Ferrari and Lamborghini.
“It has an iconic design, like the E-type Jaguar and, on all performance parameters and price, will be better than our competition,” he said.
The MP4-12C — which will be formally unveiled on Wednesday — is a small, wedge-shaped two-seater with a high-revving V8 engine, a seven-speed gearbox, a carbon-fibre chassis and “gullwing” doors that open upwards, not outwards.
So far, so supercar.
There’s more than meets eye, though, with this roadgoing racer, designed by former Ferrari design director Frank Stephenson. Dennis and his engineers have used F1 expertise to achieve several firsts.
The MP4-12C boasts automatic variable rate suspension. At low speeds, the suspension is soft “to prevent the jaw-jarring experience you get in most sports cars if you hit a pothole at slow speed”, Dennis said. But, as the car accelerates, the suspension automatically stiffens to create a thrilling — and safe — ride.
Park it next to your house and you can use wireless internet to download MP3 music files, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and Google maps with driving directions from your computer to the car.
There are some neat design features, too. Sit in the driving seat and the dashboard seems to float in front of you. Because the engine sits behind you, there is no central drive shaft separating driver and passenger, giving playboys the chance to play footsie with their girlfriends at 200mph.
McLaren Automotive was spun off from McLaren Group, which runs the F1 team, this year. The firm is half-owned by Mumtalakat, the £5 billion private-equity arm of the Bahrain government, which has a 30% stake in McLaren Group. The remaining half is split between Dennis and TAG, the Swiss engineering and technology firm.
Dennis and his partners have spent up to £100m. Ranked 648th in The Sunday Times Rich List with a fortune of £87m, Dennis is close to announcing a further £300m investment that will enable him to build a new factory alongside McLaren’s headquarters near Woking, Surrey. The fresh cash is expected to come from Bahrain and wealthy individuals in the Gulf and Asia. The car will go on sale in 2011.
Launching a car that will cost about £150,000 during the deepest recession in decades has prompted critics to ask whether Dennis is a few cogs short of a gearbox. To make matters worse, he is entering the supercar market at a time when Audi, Aston Martin, Bentley, Porsche, Bugatti and even Ford have joined the go-faster sector.
Dennis concedes that sales of fancy cars have fallen but insists the sector has not been as badly affected by the crunch as the market overall.
“There were 125,000 cars in our segment of the market sold in 2007. It has shrunk but not by the kind of 40% drop that we’ve seen in other sectors,” he said. “It’s going back up again already. It will be back above 100,000 in two years.”
Dennis believes sales will be so strong he will be able to go on from the MP4-12C to create a stable of thoroughbred English racers. “We’re building more than a car. we’re building a brand.” Two new two-seaters will be launched by 2015: one smaller model, to go nose to nose with the Porsche 911, and one bigger, to compete with the Porsche Carrera GT. The production target is 1,000 cars in the first year, rising to 4,000 as new models are introduced.
Dennis is so fired up about his new baby it is hard to believe that just a few months ago his career seemed to be in tatters. He severed all ties with F1 after Hamilton was exposed as lying to race stewards following the Australian grand prix in March.
But he has not turned his back on motor sport. “We’ll enter racing championships with racing variants of this car,” he said. If Dennis’s track record is anything to go by, there may be more cups to add to his collection, after all.
(The Sunday Times, 6 September 2009)
When it is unveiled this week the new McLaren road car is expected to be the final word in supercar excess. For Ron Dennis it is just the beginning. The McLaren boss has outlined a strategy to create a global supercar brand with a stable of high-performance models. In an interview with The Sunday Times this weekend, Dennis reveals plans to build three new models over the next six years, eventually churning out 4,000 cars a year (Ferrari makes about 6,000). “We’re building more than one car; we’re building a brand,” he says.
The first of the three will be unveiled on Wednesday and is scheduled to go on sale in 2011. Until now it has been known only by its codename, P11, but the new model will be sold as the MP4-12C, a name that echoes the company’s history in Formula One racing, according to Dennis. It is one of the most keenly awaited cars of the decade and will follow in the tyre tracks of the McLaren F1 supercar, launched in 1991. In its day, with a top speed of 240mph, the F1 held the title of the world’s fastest road car.
The MP4-12C will feature many technical innovations gleaned from the company’s racing division, but it is clearly aimed at being a 200mph-plus supercar for everyday use too: self-adjusting suspension varies the damper settings to ensure a soft ride for urban driving, then stiffens up to improve driving dynamics and handling as speeds increase. Power comes from a V8 engine, controlled via a seven-speed gearbox.
As well as old-school supercar touches such as gull-wing doors, the car will feature modern creature comforts including a wi-fi connection, which enables owners to download maps and music to the car’s onboard computer, while a “floating” centre console similar to the one found in some Volvos gives the interior a futuristic feel.
The MP4-12C will cost £150,000 and McLaren hopes to sell 1,000 in the first year. It will be followed by two more as yet unnamed sports cars bearing the McLaren badge by 2015. The first will be an entry-level model to rival the standard Porsche 911, which costs from £60,000; the second, a model to fill the gap left by the discontinued Carrera GT, which cost £330,000 in 2004.
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McLaren takes on Ferrari and Lamborghini in supercar race...
(The Sunday Times, 6 September 2009)
Ron Dennis is driving a £400m plan to take on the likes of Ferrari...
Ron Dennis likes winning and is not shy about it. There is more silverware in the car-strewn “boulevard” outside his office than in the Manchester United boardroom.
Even the tacky cups are on display — two in the shape of giant sherry bottles. But there won’t be any more baubles for a bit. Dennis, who quit Formula One in April after his McLaren team was embroiled in one of the worst scandals in the sport’s history, has a new goal. The king of the pit lane wants to be king of the fast lane.
Dennis, 62, is sinking the millions he made with McLaren, whose drivers include world champion Lewis Hamilton, into a new firm, McLaren Automotive. He believes it will create the best sports car in the world, outclassing Ferrari and Lamborghini.
“It has an iconic design, like the E-type Jaguar and, on all performance parameters and price, will be better than our competition,” he said.
The MP4-12C — which will be formally unveiled on Wednesday — is a small, wedge-shaped two-seater with a high-revving V8 engine, a seven-speed gearbox, a carbon-fibre chassis and “gullwing” doors that open upwards, not outwards.
So far, so supercar.
There’s more than meets eye, though, with this roadgoing racer, designed by former Ferrari design director Frank Stephenson. Dennis and his engineers have used F1 expertise to achieve several firsts.
The MP4-12C boasts automatic variable rate suspension. At low speeds, the suspension is soft “to prevent the jaw-jarring experience you get in most sports cars if you hit a pothole at slow speed”, Dennis said. But, as the car accelerates, the suspension automatically stiffens to create a thrilling — and safe — ride.
Park it next to your house and you can use wireless internet to download MP3 music files, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and Google maps with driving directions from your computer to the car.
There are some neat design features, too. Sit in the driving seat and the dashboard seems to float in front of you. Because the engine sits behind you, there is no central drive shaft separating driver and passenger, giving playboys the chance to play footsie with their girlfriends at 200mph.
McLaren Automotive was spun off from McLaren Group, which runs the F1 team, this year. The firm is half-owned by Mumtalakat, the £5 billion private-equity arm of the Bahrain government, which has a 30% stake in McLaren Group. The remaining half is split between Dennis and TAG, the Swiss engineering and technology firm.
Dennis and his partners have spent up to £100m. Ranked 648th in The Sunday Times Rich List with a fortune of £87m, Dennis is close to announcing a further £300m investment that will enable him to build a new factory alongside McLaren’s headquarters near Woking, Surrey. The fresh cash is expected to come from Bahrain and wealthy individuals in the Gulf and Asia. The car will go on sale in 2011.
Launching a car that will cost about £150,000 during the deepest recession in decades has prompted critics to ask whether Dennis is a few cogs short of a gearbox. To make matters worse, he is entering the supercar market at a time when Audi, Aston Martin, Bentley, Porsche, Bugatti and even Ford have joined the go-faster sector.
Dennis concedes that sales of fancy cars have fallen but insists the sector has not been as badly affected by the crunch as the market overall.
“There were 125,000 cars in our segment of the market sold in 2007. It has shrunk but not by the kind of 40% drop that we’ve seen in other sectors,” he said. “It’s going back up again already. It will be back above 100,000 in two years.”
Dennis believes sales will be so strong he will be able to go on from the MP4-12C to create a stable of thoroughbred English racers. “We’re building more than a car. we’re building a brand.” Two new two-seaters will be launched by 2015: one smaller model, to go nose to nose with the Porsche 911, and one bigger, to compete with the Porsche Carrera GT. The production target is 1,000 cars in the first year, rising to 4,000 as new models are introduced.
Dennis is so fired up about his new baby it is hard to believe that just a few months ago his career seemed to be in tatters. He severed all ties with F1 after Hamilton was exposed as lying to race stewards following the Australian grand prix in March.
But he has not turned his back on motor sport. “We’ll enter racing championships with racing variants of this car,” he said. If Dennis’s track record is anything to go by, there may be more cups to add to his collection, after all.
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