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In sheer performance terms, the McLaren F1 was pretty much unrivalled — the fastest car on the planet at the time. So, we have high hopes for its successor, the P1, and if the specs just released by McLaren are anything to go by, we’re not going to be disappointed, well if you’ve got a million in the bank that is. 0 to 186mph in just 17 seconds; that’s practically warp speed. Plus it’s kind of green-ish too.
Two-seats are propelled from 0 to 62mph in 3 seconds, zero to 124mph in just 7, and to the afore mentioned 186mph in 17 heart-pounding ticks of the second hand. It’ll also hit a blistering 217mph top speed, and that’s just an electronic cap.
The P1 is a hybrid of sorts too, with both a 3.8L twin-turbo V8 mounted in the middle of the car, and an electric motor for extra power. 903 horses are at your disposal combined, but if you’re just pootling about the city in your million quid hypercar, you can drive 12 miles in all-electric mode up to 30mph. It’s practically an eco-car, really.
The bad news is that only 375 of the things are going to be made, apparently, and they cost from a life-ending starting price of £866,000, which is more than most people’s houses. But when sheer performance looks this damn good, you just can’t put a price on it. Just imagine turning up to your school reunion in that thing. [McLaren]
Rear of the Year.
Want. But not in that colour.
why not! actually im glad, i like being the only person with a bright yellow and black vehicle (so far ive had 3 bikes resprayed to black and yellow, theyre my colours if you will)
Because yellow is the colour of N**wich City. What other rational explanation is needed?
im guessing thats a football thing, you could write everything i know about football on the head of a pin!
That battery range is very good! My Lexus RX450h-FSport will only do about 1 mile!
Heh. I spent 3 weeks looking at the CAD for this thing back when I did the light trails job for McLaren.
Never could get the stupid grinning face out of my head though.
‘…starting price of £866,000, which is more than most people’s houses.’
You are hilarious!!!
Translating numbers like this just makes it weird. Much better to say 0-100 Km/h in 3 seconds, 0-200 in 7 seconds and 0-300 in 17 seconds. Speed limit is 350 km/h. £866,000 is €1,000,000. I like round numbers much better…
ive never been a fan of the look of mclarens road cars but theres no other way to say it. that is f**king beautiful
I always buy old cheap shit, always find if I buy something nice I’m too scared to enjoy it in case I break it. I bought a 13k Motorcycle and never used it because I didn’t want to crash it. I ended up using my GPZ 500 which I bought for £600 and rebuilt the engine on it and I’m having way more fun on it. I’ve crashed it loads doing stupid shit and because it’s all so cheap I just buy what ever part I need and repair the bike myself. Ended up selling my other bike because if I’m going to look at vehicles, I’d rather do it for free lol.