The McLaren F1 was the greatest road car of all time - just look whathappened when Hammond and the Stig raced one against the BugattiVeyron. Now its successor, the MP4-12C, has arrived. You should beexcited.
Let's start with some numbers. The mid-engined 12C is powered by anall-new 3.8-litre twin-turbo V8 with a dry sump and flat-plane crank.It produces 600bhp and 443lb ft of torque, 80 per cent of which is available from less than 2,000rpm. It will weigh just under 1,400kg.
Though McLaren hasn't released any performance figures, a 0-60mph timenear three seconds and a top speed in excess of 200mph would seemhighly likely. So, yeah, it's going to be fast. Not quite as insanelyquick as the original F1, but still... fast.
The 12C is underpinned by a revolutionary new one-piece carbon fibretub, a brand new piece of technology that weighs in at just 81kg.There's more clever
tech on board, too - an all-new seven-speed dual clutch transmission(called SSG) and innovative suspension that does without a conventionalanti-roll bar, featuring instead hydraulically inter-connected dampers.Oh, and - just like the original F1 - there's a rear air brake.
What do you think of the looks? True, it's much more... slow-burningthan most 600bhp mid-engined sports cars, but McLaren MD AnthonySheriff says that was exactly the point.
"The structure, layout and packaging were all defined before we put pento paper," says Sheriff. "We started with an aerodynamic proportionsmodel to see if we could meet the targets we'd set, and created a shapearound that."
Designer Frank Stephenson - who joined McLaren in 2008 after a longstint at BMW and a shorter one at Ferrari, Fiat and Alfa Romeo, agrees.
"There's an efficiency to the design of the 12C," says Stephenson. "Theshape is not overpowered by styling tricks or elements that don't needto be there. With McLaren it's more technological - there's no stylingfor styling's sake."
McLaren plans to build around 1000 12Cs each year, with prices expectedto start at just under ￡150,000 - right on Ferrari 458 money. That's avirtual bargain compared to the original F1, which weighed it at overhalf a million quid even back in 1992.
So... thoughts, please. A worthy successor to the McLaren F1?作者: cammysychong 時間: 2009-10-15 09:09 AM
oh my god.....i want this car作者: astley88 時間: 2009-10-15 10:21 AM
a great super car~作者: Slaff 時間: 2009-10-15 03:30 PM
买不起！呜呜~~作者: imprezax 時間: 2009-10-15 09:31 PM
本帖最後由 imprezax 於 2009-10-15 09:33 PM 編輯
一流,McLaren F1 MP4-12C是新的Legend開始,來吧挑戰ferrari和lambo這二位吧,死敵在顯[attach]783184[/attach]狠狠的飛吧......MP4-12C
