McLaren P1: yours for only $ 1.2 million

Recently in Beverly Hills, in the context of a private meeting, the British manufacturer had a fantastic P1 coupled with its technical and its official list price, and in which we also found the posted price of the fireball to come.

There was talk of a sum of $ 1.2 million, for to acquire one of the 500 models will be assembled by hand.

With its chassis and carbon fiber bodywork, the McLaren announces P1 weighs only 1300 pounds.

Under its long hood roars, the V8 twin-turbo 3.8-liter MP4-12C, but this time combined with a kinetic energy recovery (KERS). In total, the power of sports car should be around 960 horses.

Photos : © McLaren

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McLaren 12 C Can-Am presented

When in Pebble Beach / California, you can marvel at the McLaren yesterday 12 C Can-Am Edition Race Concept. It is a study of McLaren, which has its origin in the McLaren GT and should provide with only 1200 kg his race fitness to the test. The speech is also one to almost two-thirds higher output because of the special aerodynamics. Less typical is the race car überarbeeitete 3.8-six-cylinder engine that provides the power.

See the first pictures of the cars can be seen here:

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The Design of McLaren MP4-12C GT3

The racing car variant called McLaren MP4-12C GT3 is designed together with a team of CRS Racing. The factory pilots will test MP4-12C in the races this year, and the following 20 cars be made available to private teams.  MP4-12C GT3 is elegance indeed because it was designed almost entirely in a virtual environment. The aerodynamics body was developed using methods of computational fluid dynamics, the control system is made ??available on a computer simulator. The new McLaren car will be the first-class carbon fiber monocoque with GT3. As the road car, the weight monocoque is only 75 kg.

The power of the engine MP4-12C GT3 is reduced to 100 hp compared with the road version: 600 hp to “modest” 500 hp. According to designers, it will make the car more balanced. On this McLaren MP4-12C GT3, 7-speed gearbox has been replaced by a 6-speed from the firm Ricardo, which is lighter by as much as 80 kg.

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