New Mclaren MP4-12C announced

New Mclaren MP4-12C announced

600 ponies from twin turbo flat plane 3.8 lump - and a carbon tub which weighs 80 kg's and takes just 4 hours to make!!!!

Clever what has been done with the tub - which obviously is also an effective crash structure and should be the bedrock of providing the car with class-leading light overall weight.

Car projected for launch in 2011 - likely to be around £150k - has loads of techno trickery and obviously has been revealed to steal thunder from the iminent Ferrari 458 launch at Frankfurt motorshow.

Styling is understated - and by the time it is on sale one would hope the market is much more buoyant than it is now - interestingly - car is projected to have very low emissions as well - even lower than some hybrids...

Little vid and views on the car from BBC below:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8238430.stm


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