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“We’re building more than one car; we’re building a brand,”
McLaren boss Ron Dennis, on the announcement of the one car that McLaren is bringing to market in 2011, the MP4-12C. By 2015 McLaren hopes to offer a 911 competitor and a Carrera GT-class super-duper car, bringing total volume to 4,000 units per year, reports the Times. The MP4-12C is named for Dennis’s 1997 Formula One-winning race car, and will be rocking all the mid-engine V8, adaptive suspension, carbon-fiber chassis, gullwing doors and seven-speed accoutrement one expects at a $250k price point. Meanwhile, the designer of McLaren’s first road car is betting on tiny city cars. And it’s tough to tell which of the two is crazier.
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So if they really follow in the footsteps of Porsche, we can all look forward to the 2015 Porsche 911 competitor, the 2018 McLaren 3-ton SUV, the 2021 McLaren Diesel pickup truck, and the 2024 McLaren combine harvester.Not to mention the McLaren fragrance series, the McLaren mobile telephone, and the ultra-chic range of bespoke McLaren leaf blowers.
Given the way the socio-political winds are blowing, I would not bet against Gordon Murray. If the tiny car he’s building shows the same engineering expertise and attention to detail that he applied to McLaren F1, then this should be an awesome little car.
Note to McLaren: don’t park black car under bird feeder.
I’d bet on Ron Dennis. No disrespect meant to Gordon Murray, but the fact is there will always be super rich people who want to flaunt their wealth. Ordinary people who can afford personal transportation, on the other hand…
Ford may ask ‘why not?” But I say ‘why?’
They just love coming out with rich boys’ toys in the midst of recessions (F1 in ’92), don’t they? Perhaps it will work better this time.
Can’t even gap a Volvo wagon?