Brilliant new McLaren 650S tested at the limit on track

...thought the styling was incongruent at best, ugly at worst. The car sounds like a strained lawn mower and Steve with all respect, it is obvious you were not having much fun in there despite your words...its the turbo chargers which make it difficult to drift the car and you can tell this by looking at the footage; the engine is revving up and down like a yo yo which clearly suggests the turbos are making it difficult to modulate the throttle and the car is shifting its angle along the drift accordingly. This is no 458 Italia, and it seems the British Press, sympathetic with McLaren for its failure with the MP4-12C (er sorry 12C) are desperate to hype this model...6 months waiting list and you call this a 'success'?

McLaren, all you need to do is get rid of Frank Stephenson and get someone competent to design a beautiful car around this chassis, oh and ask Recardo to help you develop a new, more sonorous engine for the P13. Seriously these models are going to start looking like baked again rehashes of old and this is not good for the image or future of the McLaren Automotive.

Why take the front of the P1 and the back of 12C to make a new car? Is Mclaren design that desperately short staffed? So it looks like a P1 is approaching and from the back looks like a 12C is driving away? The design is one of the essential parts of a sports car, specially in this price range. And giving a sports car too much torque is no good. The exiting part of a sports cars engine is the high reving nature of it. That is why most sports cars are not given too much torque. It's like Mclaren tries to fix one problem but ends creating another. A desirable sports car is not built on performance alone.