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I still vividly remember my first exposure to the F1 project in a US car magazine showed it having a large glass canopy-style roof that opened like a clamshell to allow entry. I am pretty sure it is one of the images shown in DA.
The latest concept sketches being floated for the P13 in recent months don't even appear to even be of the same car.
>8^)
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The latest concept sketches being floated for the P13 in recent months don't even appear to even be of the same car.
>8^)
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s2000db said:
So any more news on this?
Two versions a couple of months ago :http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/McLaren-P13-che...
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/geneva-motor-sho...
I had a very interesting chat with someone where I was informed the P13 will come in two flavours, one a little more hard core than the other. It will look a little like the Aventador from the front and a little like the P1 from the rear. I seem to remember scissor doors also being mentioned. The price quoted was starting from 120k.
Edited by davidexige on Friday 18th July 20:53
Smaller size, lower weight? 450 bhp with 1.1 tonne weight would be great. Would mean a car with fewer fripperies but that leaves the 650 in a different place, even if its performance is only marginally ahead of the P13.
Would be a great car and should sell well - plus offers a very different experience to a 911TT, which is now very heavy. Sort of like a 'grown up' Alfa 4C. Maybe.
Would be a great car and should sell well - plus offers a very different experience to a 911TT, which is now very heavy. Sort of like a 'grown up' Alfa 4C. Maybe.
In short, they don't need to beat the turbo in terms of either straight line speed or track times to make buyers run to the p13.
Fact is Porsche have opened the door for a beating on potential and current turbo owners by making the 991 turbo the ugliest and heaviest 911 ever made. In every way apart from track times it is a dissapointment.
They just need to make the p13 look good, sound good and with just enough speed to make your balls tingle and it will sell like hot cakes.
The 991 GT3 has the engine and track performance to murder pretty much everything, but it's hampered by its 991 bread van like shell and interior borrowed from a BMW.
Beating these cars from a desirability point of view is not going to be hard for mclaren to do, question is the price. At what cost are they aiming for, that's where I worry. I reckon it will go up against the cayman GT4 in terms of desirability and performance and end up costing double ala GT3 and 650s.
Fact is Porsche have opened the door for a beating on potential and current turbo owners by making the 991 turbo the ugliest and heaviest 911 ever made. In every way apart from track times it is a dissapointment.
They just need to make the p13 look good, sound good and with just enough speed to make your balls tingle and it will sell like hot cakes.
The 991 GT3 has the engine and track performance to murder pretty much everything, but it's hampered by its 991 bread van like shell and interior borrowed from a BMW.
Beating these cars from a desirability point of view is not going to be hard for mclaren to do, question is the price. At what cost are they aiming for, that's where I worry. I reckon it will go up against the cayman GT4 in terms of desirability and performance and end up costing double ala GT3 and 650s.
Edited by Carl_Docklands on Monday 21st July 16:38
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