Wednesday, September 9, 2009

BREAKING: The new McLaren MP4-12C









CAR Magazine has obviously got some good connections with the manufacturer, since they got these pictures and facts. Here is what they can tell: The price will be above the other exotics in its class, CAR state around 160.000 pounds. The car is built around a revolutionary safetycell called MonoCell. It is said that the supercar of carbon should be lighter than 1.300 kg. The 3,8-liter turbocharged V8 will produce 600 HP, and is produced inhouse. 80 percent of the torque will be available below 2.000 rpm, therefrore its gonna be quick. In conjunction with an SSG-transmission, Seamless Shift Gearbox which means a special preload of the next ratio trigged by a half-squeeze on the paddle (like focusing on a camera), it will be explosive.
Here is the complete press release: http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/McLaren-MP4-12C-2011-the-first-official-story-09-09/?content-block=1

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