Ralph Lauren has a stunning car collection, and as a Christmas treat for car lovers four of his cars have been recreated as scale models; the Ferrari 250 GTO, Ferrari 250 TR, McLaren F1 LM & Bugatti 57 SC Atlantic Coupe. One of the joys of success in life for a petrolhead is the ability [...]
It’s being reported that Honda are heading back to F1 supplying McLaren with engines from 2014, recreating a successful partnership from the 1980s. There is no real love lost between McLaren and Mercedes. Respect, certainly, but McLaren has done all it can to extricate itself from business dealings with the Germans, and the final step may be a partnership [...]
Prime Minister David Cameron visited Woking to officially open the new McLaren Production Centre, home to the MP4-12C and a new range McLarens to come. The launch of McLaren Automotive and the McLaren MP4-12C has been a bit of a roller coaster ride for Ron Dennis and McLaren. The reviews of the MP4-12C were overwhelmingly positive – [...]
The new McLaren MP4-12C has avoided the American ‘Gas Guzzler’ tax by achieving sector-leading economy in U.S EPA fuel consumption tests. How many miles to the gallon does the McLaren MP4-12C do? It’s not exactly the first question that pops out of the mouth of a prospective buyer. Much more likely is how much does it cost and [...]
McLaren has had problems with software issues on the MP4-12C, but we’re hearing the fixes are complete and deliveries of new cars have re-started. The birth of the McLaren MP4-12 C should have been a cause for real celebration; the first new McLaren in a generation (almost) and a Brit competitor for the Ferrari 458. But there [...]
The new series of Top Gear starts in January 2012, and the boys are filming a supercar piece in Lecce, Italy, with the Lamborghini Aventador, McLaren MP4-12C & Noble M600. We already know that Top Gear’s Christmas Special is in India this year, so the video showing the Top Gear team filming in Lecce, Italy, [...]
We’re hearing that the problems McLaren are having with the MP4-12C are scaring buyers off the new car from McLaren. All cars have teething problems. And the new McLaren MP4-12C - despite McLaren’s renowned meticulous attention to detail – is no different. McLaren are trying hard to fix the issues with the MP4-12C, and McLaren boss Ron [...]
It’s the default must do for all performance cars, so McLaren has taken the MP4-12C to the Nurburgring and set a time of 7.28.00. We’ve had a spate of claims for lap records at the Nurburgring by production cars, and the latest to play the game is the McLaren MP4-12C, with McLaren claiming a time [...]
McLaren boss Ron Dennis has written to owners of the McLaren MP4-12C apologising for the problems and offering them a free book - ‘McLaren: The Wins’ A couple of weeks ago we reported that McLaren was having some teething problems with their new MP4-12C but weren’t, despite reports to the contrary, halting production. The problems seemed [...]
The McLaren F1 belonging to “Flemke” had a coming-together on a German Autobahn last year. But now it’s fixed and looks terrific in this video. Perhaps the best-know McLaren F1 in the UK – well, perhaps the best known apart from Rowan Atkinson’s recently bent F1 – is the F1 owned by regular online commenter ‘Flemke’. Flemke is, as you [...]
Despite endless reports saying McLaren has stopped production of the MP4-12C to fix problems, it appears production is still continuing. The McLaren MP4-12C is McLaren’s first road car in almost twenty years, and it appears that the new 458 competitor from Woking has a few problems. Reports have been cropping up for some weeks that [...]
McLaren has officially launched McLaren Special Operations, a division responsible for delivery of bespoke projects for McLaren sports cars. We reported last week that McLaren had taken a customised MP4-12C to Pebble Beach and that it heralded the start of ‘McLaren Exclusive’ to customise customer cars. We were close, but its actually McLaren Special Operations - and not [...]
McLaren has revealed a McLaren MP4-12C at Pebble Beach featuring upgrades to the MP4-12C from McLaren Exclusive. You didn’t think McLaren were going to miss out on the very lucrative ‘Personalisation’ of the MP4-12C, did you? Of course not. So you won’t be surprise that McLaren has rolled up at Pebble Beach with an ‘Exclusive Edition’ [...]
Rowan Atkinson has crashed his McLaren F1 in Cambridgeshire. The F1 left the road and hit a tree and a signpost. Rowan broke his shoulder and the Mac will mend. We don’t usually do accidents and supercars on Cars UK. To us, it seems horribly ghoulish and somehow perverse to seek enjoyment, not just from the misery of others, but from [...]
The McLaren MP4-12C – which is just about to arrive with its first buyers – has had a range of tweaks to address criticisms raised by motoring press. McLaren thought they’d built a car in the MP4-12C that bettered the finest competition in the world. Or the Ferrari 458 Italia. It’s the same thing. And [...]
Jay Leno gets to visit McLaren to see his MP4-12C and gets a driving lesson at Dunsfold in the 12C from McLaren’s chief test driver Chris Goodwin. You happen to be one of the worlds’s best-known petrolheads, and you also own one of just 64 McLaren F1 road cars ever made. So when the company that made [...]
McLaren were big at the 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed, with the debut of the McLaren MP4-12C GT3 on the hillclimb driven by Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton. We’ve covered just about every car that went up the hillclimb at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. We also managed to send Claire up the hillclimb [...]
McLaren London has opened for business at an opening party attended by famous faces including McLaren’s Ron Dennis, Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton. Almost exactly a year on from McLaren’s announcement that the UK will have three McLaren dealers – London, Birmingham and Manchester – the first of those dealers, McLaren London, opened for business yesterday. Operated [...]
It seems the McLaren MP4-12C is sold out until 2014, unless McLaren increase production to cater for the demand for the first new Mclaren in a generation. It was always likely that the McLaren MP4-12C would be a popular buy. Especially with the promise of F1 fairy dust sprinkled over the first new road car from McLaren in almost a [...]
It’s being reported that the McLaren MP4-12C has achieved the fastest ever time for a production road car round the Top Gear Test Track at Dunsfold in 1.14.1 With plenty of information now floating around on the performance of the McLaren MP4-12C, it’s pretty clear that most feel it to be a quite exceptional car. There do [...]
The next car in McLaren’s road car plan is the new McLaren F1 – which could be the McLaren 799 – due in 2013. More detail emerges. It’s more than two years since we revealed that McLaren are planning on building a McLaren F1 road car for the 21st century. Planned to bring game-changing performance [...]
Normal service resumed at Turkey with Vettel on pole and Webber riding shotgun. Did the McLarens – or the improving Ferraris – change that? What a difference a year makes. The 2010 Turkish Grand Prix was full of problems for Red Bull after Vettel and Webber collided, leading to Webber’s – seemingly justified – accusations [...]
McLaren have taken the track version of the MP4-12 C – the McLaren MP4-12C GT3 – of to Silverstone for a bit of tack time. We have the video. There’s nothing quite like a bit of track success to boost car sales. From the prosaic to the extraordinary, car makers love the lift a bit of [...]
After last night’s performance data from McLaren, this morning we have performance photos and performance video on the McLaren MP4-12C We should probably call today ‘McLaren Day’, not Valentine’s Day. For today is the day we get every last morsel of detail on McLaren’s first new car in almost twenty years – the McLaren MP4-12C. Keen readers [...]
