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McLaren will launch a follow-up to its iconic F1 hypercar in 2012, more than two years earlier than originally planned.

A successor to the F1 had been expected later in the decade as McLaren instead focused its efforts on setting up a new car company from scratch, developing and marketing the MP4-12C and establishing a dealer network to sell its models through.

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that's what we want

every thing you say is right:

that's what we want

 

because we are all going to be able to afford one ?

Hurrah! Er... as long as it doesn't look like the render.

Too fussy, very heavy haunches, the orig car had purity

well lets hope its a real hyper car that does justice to the Mac F1 name. also hope its fast enough and well sorted enough to show up the Bug Veyron for the heavy and overpowered blob it really is.

Veryron 1001PS and 1200PS will both crush it. Let's see you do 270mph McLaren.

Okay chaps, I'll volunteer to push the old chestnut out into the thread:

If one accepts (and you are free to reject) the standard of muscularity and voluptuousness in great sports cars is an Aston Martin DB9, or a Porsche 911, or in the classic category, an E-Type Jaguar, or even the nineties concept they never built, by what standard is that car a beautiful sports car?

And if it is defined as not at all beautiful but dramatic, shaped exactly to fit its function, why the crap thrown at Murray's T25, a city vehicle exactly the shape it must be to meet it's design brief?

(Light blue touch paper and retire .........)

 

murray should stick to designing supercars, solve both problems

OH really!,won't be driven on public roads then will it?,who'll other than professional drivers be able to drive it near half it's potential?,no, people who make cars likethese should be concentrating on the power sources to propel these cars, think about it, a car that runs on a zero emmissions power source,does 100mpg!?, wouldn't that be a better use of technology rather than making cars do 200,300mph?.

If the MP12-C thingy is going to cost 150k and do 200mph and 0-60 in 3.5 secs, what would the new F1 be like? It would have to eclipse the old one in everyway to justify the new tech introduced in the last 20 years.

oh give it a break, the veyron in standard form was launched some five years ago, the mclaren will not be able to match this cars engineering, plus how crap will it be if they only use 2 years for all the research and development?  finally, the veyron is not a great looking car, but this looks plain ugly.