In
today’s world of ungodly-powered supercars, an old hat that has been
lost in the shuffle is looking to re-enter the conversation, determined
to remind everyone that while their name hasn’t been mentioned in talks
of ’fastest supercar on the planet’, it was a matter of choice rather
than cause.
Rumors are coming out of Woking, England that McLaren is finally in the process of developing the long-awaited successor to the iconic McLaren F1.
This is the very same car that ushered in a new generation of
supercars when it made its debut back in the mid 90s, setting the
standard on how supercars are built these days.
While official details are still being withheld, Autocar
managed to get some juicy information on what’s in store for this new
supercar, including the nickname it’s been given: ’Mega Mac.’
It sounds like it doesn’t inspire a lot of fear and trepidation from its competitors, but nonetheless, we’re confident that ’Mega
Mac’ won’t be the final name of the car. Somewhere along the lines,
McLaren will have something more suitable for their new flagship
supercar. Right now, they are internally calling the new hypercar the
P12
UPDATE 11/21/2011: McLaren has confirmed that the company’s next supercar will be called the MP4-27 and it will be launched sometime next year. When talking about the company’s future plans in an official press release, Mclaren said that they were "preparing build-work on next year’s car, MP4-27 – we are nine months into the development programme and have already stored 18,918 individual components from more than 3,000 different works orders and signed off more than 5,500 technical drawings."
UPDATE 1/19/2012: British magazine, CAR,is
offering new details on the McLaren successor for the F1 supercar. The
magazine reports that the P12 will be share a similar carbon Monocell
structure as the MP4-12C and will be powered by a 3.8-liter twin-turbo
V8 engine combined with a KERS energy storage system. The price for the
car will be in the €750k area (or $960,000 at the current exchange
rates.
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