With a debut at the Paris Motor Show on 27th September, McLaren releases the first teaser photo of their new hypercar. We’ve been anticipating the reveal of the new McLaren F1 – the McLaren P12 – for some time, and expected it to appear at Pebble Beach last month. The new car at Pebble Beach […]
McLaren fires a shot across the bow of the Ferrari F70
McLaren MD Antony Sheriff has declared V12 engines a thing of the past. Just as the new McLaren F1 and Ferrari F70 are about to be revealed. Seemingly out of the blue, McLaren’s Managing Director, Antony Sherfiff, has declared V12 engines the stuff of automotive history. “The V12 engine is a thing of the past. The engine […]
New McLaren F1 to get 1000 bhp – private reveal at Pebble Beach
The new McLaren F1 – McLaren P12 Project – will be revealed to private clients at Pebble Beach next month and gets 1,000bhp. McLaren’s successor to the iconic McLaren F1 is nearly upon us, and according to a McLaren owner we’ve spoken to it looks set to be revealed privately at Pebble Beach next month […]
McLaren F1 debuted 20 years ago this week
It’s 20 years this week since the iconic McLaren F1 made its debut at The Sporting Club in Monte Carlo. There were many reasons why we thought McLaren would preview the new F1 to a select audience at last week’s Monaco Grand Prix, not least of which was that it’s 20 years since the first McLaren F1 […]
New McLaren F1 or MP4-12C Spider about to be revealed?
It looks like McLaren are about to reveal a new car to McLaren owners and VIPs. But is it the new McLaren F1 or the MP4-12C Spider? The rumour is that McLaren will reveal their new range-topping hypercar – a successor to the iconic McLaren F1 – at the Monaco Grand Prix in May, although […]
McLaren F1: Ron Dennis considered building more orginal F1s to rake in cash
McLaren boss Ron Dennis has confessed he considered cashing in on the current price of the original McLaren F1 by building more. The price of an original McLaren F1 is nothing short of stratospheric. Prices of £3 million, £4 million and more have been paid for one of the 64 F1 cars McLaren made in […]
New McLaren F1 to debut at Monaco 2012?
It’s reported that the new McLaren F1 – know as the McLaren P12 – will debut as a concept at the Monaco Grand Prix weekend in May 2012. We first revealed that a new McLaren F1 was being developed in Woking almost three years ago, but at that time it looked like the new F1 – codenamed […]
McLaren F1 Video: Flemke’s Mac’s been fixed
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 […]
Rowan Atkinson prangs the McLaren – again
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 […]
2013 McLaren F1 – more details emerge
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 […]