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 learns to drive his own McLaren MP4-12C at Dunsfold +video
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 MP4-12C GT3 (& MP4-12C) at Goodwood FoS +video
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: Open for business
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 […]
McLaren MP4-12C sold out until 2014
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 […]
McLaren MP4-12C: Fastest round the Top Gear track – EVER
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 […]
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 […]
Turkish Grand Prix (2011) RESULT
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 MP4-12C GT3 Silverstone test +video
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 […]
McLaren MP4-12C Performance Press Release
McLaren Automotive and the groundbreaking new MP4-12C: the vision McLaren MP4-12C high-performance sports car on sale worldwide in 2011 McLaren Racing DNA runs through the development of the 12C and a range of future high-performance sports cars from McLaren Automotive New McLaren Production Centre due for spring completion A new short film presenting the McLaren […]