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McLaren Automotive North America Announces Senior Appointments
- Tony Joseph – Regional Director, North America
- Peter Freiberger – Sales Manager, North America
- Richard Powell – Aftersales Manager, North America
- Lynne Arciero – Marketing and Communications Manager, North America
NEW YORK (April 29, 2010) -- Following the successful March 18 press conference, “Inside McLaren Automotive – The Launch of A New Car Company,” McLaren Automotive is pleased to announce key North American senior appointments, Peter Freiberger, Richard Powell and Lynne Arciero joining Regional Director, Tony Joseph. The regional headquarters will be based in New York City, New York.
Reflecting both the draw of the McLaren brand and the exciting challenge of launching a range of high performance sports cars over the coming years, the North American team bring with them a mix of more than 75 years experience in the car industry, as well as a desire to be part of a unique project; the launch of a brand new car company – developing, engineering, building, marketing, selling and servicing its own range of ‘pure’ high performance premium sports cars.
Freiberger joins the company as Sales Manager, Powell as Aftersales Manager and Arciero as Marketing and Communications Manager for North America. In preparation for the global launch of the first car in McLaren’s range, the MP4-12C in 2011, they are joining the previously appointed Regional Director for North America, Tony Joseph.
“I am very excited about the team that we have assembled for the North American market,” explained Joseph whose previous roles include general manager for Auto Palace Porsche, sales director for Ferrari North America and regional manager for Porsche Cars North America. “Each person on our team brings a wealth of experience in various aspects of the premium car industry. In addition, because we have the unique opportunity to start a car company from a blank sheet of paper, it was vitally important that we put together a group of people that were open to thinking out of the box. I’m confident that we found the right balance for the North American region.”
Joseph’s new team will contribute to a global sales, marketing and aftersales network, challenged with setting new standards for sales and service in the performance car sector. McLaren Automotive’s quality and performance goals will be delivered through a network of dedicated McLaren retailers that will be announced soon.
Freiberger, who brings a wealth of premium automotive experience including 15 years with Porsche Financial Services and Porsche Cars North America, said of his appointment: “I am very excited to be a part of McLaren Automotive team in North America. It truly is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be involved with launching a car company from the beginning and assist with developing a dealer network that should prove to be one of the strongest in the industry. It is a bonus that I’ve been a huge fan of McLaren in Formula 1 for years.”
Powell joins the team bringing nearly 25 years experience in the automotive industry, both in retail and on the corporate side of the business including nine years with Aston Martin North America: “This is both a unique and very exciting opportunity to launch a new car company and an incredible line of high performance cars from the ground up. With its significant racing heritage, uniquely winning world championships in Formula 1, Indy, Can-Am, and Le Mans, McLaren certainly has the what it takes to set new standards with its production vehicles including the 12C. My goal is to make sure that translates to the entire ownership experience.”
Arciero comes to McLaren Automotive with both automotive marketing and public relations experience representing nameplates including Maserati, Land Rover and Toyota Motorsports. Arciero said of her new role: “Being part of the team to launch McLaren Automotive in North America is very exciting. It may still be a new brand to many people, but McLaren is a hugely successful technology company with a long and rich heritage in motorsports.
“When you look at the premium sports car segment, ‘authenticity’ has significant value to North American consumers. Luckily, it is easy to see that McLaren has stayed true to its identity as an innovator in vehicle technology since its inception in the 1960s. My goal is to tell the McLaren story – the passion and expertise that is driving the McLaren Automotive team to try and do things better. It is exciting to know that we will be able to help shape what McLaren will look like in North America.”
The 12C is the first in a range of high performance sports cars from McLaren Automotive. Along with future models within the range, it will challenge the world’s best sports cars, benefiting from the expertise and virtuosity of the McLaren Group.The12C is set to re-write the rules of sports car design through Formula 1-inspired engineering, a revolutionary carbon fibre chassis, and an absolute focus on efficiency and quality. It represents ‘pure McLaren’; from unique engineering to bespoke design where everything is for a reason. The 12C will be built in the UK at the new McLaren Production Centre in Woking, and will go on sale in North America beginning June 2011.
- Tony Joseph – Regional Director, North America
- Peter Freiberger – Sales Manager, North America
- Richard Powell – Aftersales Manager, North America
- Lynne Arciero – Marketing and Communications Manager, North America
NEW YORK (April 29, 2010) -- Following the successful March 18 press conference, “Inside McLaren Automotive – The Launch of A New Car Company,” McLaren Automotive is pleased to announce key North American senior appointments, Peter Freiberger, Richard Powell and Lynne Arciero joining Regional Director, Tony Joseph. The regional headquarters will be based in New York City, New York.
Reflecting both the draw of the McLaren brand and the exciting challenge of launching a range of high performance sports cars over the coming years, the North American team bring with them a mix of more than 75 years experience in the car industry, as well as a desire to be part of a unique project; the launch of a brand new car company – developing, engineering, building, marketing, selling and servicing its own range of ‘pure’ high performance premium sports cars.
Freiberger joins the company as Sales Manager, Powell as Aftersales Manager and Arciero as Marketing and Communications Manager for North America. In preparation for the global launch of the first car in McLaren’s range, the MP4-12C in 2011, they are joining the previously appointed Regional Director for North America, Tony Joseph.
“I am very excited about the team that we have assembled for the North American market,” explained Joseph whose previous roles include general manager for Auto Palace Porsche, sales director for Ferrari North America and regional manager for Porsche Cars North America. “Each person on our team brings a wealth of experience in various aspects of the premium car industry. In addition, because we have the unique opportunity to start a car company from a blank sheet of paper, it was vitally important that we put together a group of people that were open to thinking out of the box. I’m confident that we found the right balance for the North American region.”
Joseph’s new team will contribute to a global sales, marketing and aftersales network, challenged with setting new standards for sales and service in the performance car sector. McLaren Automotive’s quality and performance goals will be delivered through a network of dedicated McLaren retailers that will be announced soon.
Freiberger, who brings a wealth of premium automotive experience including 15 years with Porsche Financial Services and Porsche Cars North America, said of his appointment: “I am very excited to be a part of McLaren Automotive team in North America. It truly is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be involved with launching a car company from the beginning and assist with developing a dealer network that should prove to be one of the strongest in the industry. It is a bonus that I’ve been a huge fan of McLaren in Formula 1 for years.”
Powell joins the team bringing nearly 25 years experience in the automotive industry, both in retail and on the corporate side of the business including nine years with Aston Martin North America: “This is both a unique and very exciting opportunity to launch a new car company and an incredible line of high performance cars from the ground up. With its significant racing heritage, uniquely winning world championships in Formula 1, Indy, Can-Am, and Le Mans, McLaren certainly has the what it takes to set new standards with its production vehicles including the 12C. My goal is to make sure that translates to the entire ownership experience.”
Arciero comes to McLaren Automotive with both automotive marketing and public relations experience representing nameplates including Maserati, Land Rover and Toyota Motorsports. Arciero said of her new role: “Being part of the team to launch McLaren Automotive in North America is very exciting. It may still be a new brand to many people, but McLaren is a hugely successful technology company with a long and rich heritage in motorsports.
“When you look at the premium sports car segment, ‘authenticity’ has significant value to North American consumers. Luckily, it is easy to see that McLaren has stayed true to its identity as an innovator in vehicle technology since its inception in the 1960s. My goal is to tell the McLaren story – the passion and expertise that is driving the McLaren Automotive team to try and do things better. It is exciting to know that we will be able to help shape what McLaren will look like in North America.”
The 12C is the first in a range of high performance sports cars from McLaren Automotive. Along with future models within the range, it will challenge the world’s best sports cars, benefiting from the expertise and virtuosity of the McLaren Group.The12C is set to re-write the rules of sports car design through Formula 1-inspired engineering, a revolutionary carbon fibre chassis, and an absolute focus on efficiency and quality. It represents ‘pure McLaren’; from unique engineering to bespoke design where everything is for a reason. The 12C will be built in the UK at the new McLaren Production Centre in Woking, and will go on sale in North America beginning June 2011.
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McLaren Production Centre construction and environmental programme ahead of schedule
* £40 million McLaren Production Centre (MPC) construction programme ahead of schedule within two months
* Innovation and attention to detail in MPC construction programme reflect wider McLaren Group attitudes and results
* Sensitive environmental development and cleanliness are the details driving the MPC’s rapid construction challenge
WOKING, UK (May 04, 2010) – McLaren Automotive’s plans for the launch of the first in its range of premium high-performance sports cars have received a further boost this week as its new home begins to take shape. The McLaren Production Centre (MPC) at McLaren’s global headquarters in Woking, UK, is just eight weeks into its construction and is already ahead of schedule. McLaren’s and its construction partners’ detailed planning and consultation processes, as well as the good weather experienced in the UK over recent weeks, have contributed to the project’s impressive speed off the line.
Ron Dennis, Executive Chairman of McLaren Group and McLaren Automotive, said: “We’ve approached the MPC planning and construction programme in the same rigorous and detailed manner as we would start a Grand Prix season or as we’ve managed the research, development and launch of our new McLaren Automotive car company".
“Every aspect has been considered, and solutions resolved, whether it be on the production facility’s timing and layout, the local sensitivities regarding the practical, logistical and environmental impact of the new facility, or how we deal with details such as keeping the site and surrounding roads as clean and as traffic-free as possible. It’s very important to me, to all at McLaren, and to our partners in this project that the MPC is not only brought to life on time and on budget, but that it’s also completed in a way that supports the Woking area and its community".
“I was born in Woking and am proud that McLaren is the town’s biggest employer as well as being a genuine global leader in technological innovation and high-value manufacturing. With that in mind, it’s great news for all concerned that the MPC is already ahead of schedule.”
Works on the MPC build programme started on Monday 1st March as scheduled following a very thorough planning process that took into account all local concerns over the MPC’s impact on traffic and jobs, as well as the environmental and visual impact. McLaren worked closely with a number of local groups whose members had expressed doubts over the development, reassuring all concerned that the MPC would make minimal visual impact on the local environment, whilst economically and industrially supporting Woking as a world-leading centre of manufacturing innovation and technology.
The MPC aims to reflect the environmental credentials of the McLaren Technology Centre (MTC), McLaren’s award-winning Woking headquarters, and examples of the environmentally sensitive and detailed development programme that McLaren is undertaking include:
* McLaren Automotive’s SLR manufacturing operations and processes were reviewed. As a result, energy consumption within the MPC will be reduced for the 12C and future cars. For example, specialist ‘low-energy’ paints have been selected for the 12C that can be cooled mainly through natural air-flow within the building. Noise levels will also be negligible
* A major re-contouring landscape project will sensitively screen the MPC from visitors to the adjacent Horsell Common. Importantly, the landscaping project is re-using all existing soil (unusually, none is leaving the site), massively reducing the transportation impact and the potential for the introduction of invasive plant species to Horsell Common
* 820 new trees, and 68 existing mature trees that were transplanted in a local nursery before the bird-nesting season, will be planted on-site to further screen the MPC and MTC and positively contribute to the local environment
* An extensive landscaping programme features the planting and sowing of native shrubs and a grass seed mix in sympathy with Horsell Common species that will ensure the site is in keeping with its location
* Every vehicle that leaves the site receives a high-power wheel and chassis wash to ensure that dirt and mud is not left on the surrounding roads: a safety concern that McLaren also believes is of visual benefit to the surrounding area
* McLaren has purchased the Heather Farm facility of industrial buildings and concrete hard-standing, adjacent to the Horsell Common Special Protection Area, and has bequeathed ownership of the site to the Horsell Common Preservation Society
* All local public footpaths have been either retained or will be enhanced for future access, with project updates posted on the Horsell Common footpaths to keep the local community aware of progress
The MPC build programme is a technical and engineering challenge in itself. Set a rapid timescale of approximately one year from the start of construction to the production of the first 12C high-performance sports car, McLaren and its partners in the programme, Fosters & Partners and Terence O’Rourke, are well on course to open the doors to the 33,000m2 innovative new car production centre in the first half of 2011.
Highlights of the build programme include:
* At its peak, the construction programme will support 450 jobs
* 300 jobs (many highly skilled) will be added to the existing 500 at McLaren Automotive
* 180,000m3 of soil will be excavated. Typically on a major construction programme, much of the excavated soil would be removed from site. Unusually, but in keeping with McLaren’s consideration of its Woking home, all soil is being retained on site, saving the associated transport disruption of moving such large amounts of soil onto local Woking roads
* To date, almost 25,000 off-site lorry movements (3,000 per week) have been prevented through the project’s sensitive re-contouring plan that retains all soil on-site.
Ron Dennis added: “I’m pleased to be able to say that 2010 has been a fantastically exciting year so far at McLaren. The successful start to the MPC build programme follows our global launch of the new sports car company in March and a winning start to this season’s Formula 1 world championship for our Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula 1 team.
“We already have nearly 2,000 car enthusiasts expressing an interest in our first car, the 12C; we’ve already won two of the first four Grands Prix so far this season, including a one-two in China, and we’re currently leading both the Constructors’ World Championship and the Driver’s World Championship.
“Moreover, we’re already almost two weeks ahead of schedule on the MPC. The construction programme is yet another reflection of the passion of everyone at McLaren for the company to be the most innovative, most successful, and most respected sports car and motorsport business in the world, both now and in the future.”
MPC and MP4-12C in detail
The MPC will be the home of McLaren Automotive’s range of high-performance and highly efficient sports cars, supporting up to 800 jobs and manufacturing around 4,000 cars by the middle of the decade. New standards of quality will be introduced into the sports car market, as well as innovative new technologies unique to McLaren. All components on the cars are bespoke to McLaren.
The first 12C customer cars will be built in the Production Hall at the McLaren Technology Centre in late 2010, approximately three months before production transfers to the brand new McLaren Production Centre. They will follow the same build and quality processes that McLaren Automotive developed for the £300,000-plus carbonfibre based Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren.
However, in a revolutionary step that allows the 12C to retail at around half that price point, McLaren will introduce an innovative one-piece carbonfibre chassis structure known as the MonoCell: the first time that such a lightweight, safe and strong structure has been offered on a series production car in this market segment.
McLaren Automotive’s production strategy offers the best of both hand-built and ‘lean’ production processes. Fine-tuned during the SLR programme, it delivered cars built to the highest qualities expected by Mercedes-Benz, contributing to total production of 2,114 SLRs: a record number for any car in the £300,000-500,000 price point and any car built on a carbonfibre chassis.
The new MPC manufacturing facility will take the best of the company’s production processes and provide the perfect base to tailor-make up to 1,000 12C’s in 2011. It will exhibit a clear McLaren style and will espouse all the virtues of the MTC.
The MPC will be just two minutes by foot from the MTC, and production engineers and planners will therefore continue to benefit from the instant access they currently enjoy to the research, design and engineering teams in McLaren Automotive and McLaren Racing.
* £40 million McLaren Production Centre (MPC) construction programme ahead of schedule within two months
* Innovation and attention to detail in MPC construction programme reflect wider McLaren Group attitudes and results
* Sensitive environmental development and cleanliness are the details driving the MPC’s rapid construction challenge
WOKING, UK (May 04, 2010) – McLaren Automotive’s plans for the launch of the first in its range of premium high-performance sports cars have received a further boost this week as its new home begins to take shape. The McLaren Production Centre (MPC) at McLaren’s global headquarters in Woking, UK, is just eight weeks into its construction and is already ahead of schedule. McLaren’s and its construction partners’ detailed planning and consultation processes, as well as the good weather experienced in the UK over recent weeks, have contributed to the project’s impressive speed off the line.
Ron Dennis, Executive Chairman of McLaren Group and McLaren Automotive, said: “We’ve approached the MPC planning and construction programme in the same rigorous and detailed manner as we would start a Grand Prix season or as we’ve managed the research, development and launch of our new McLaren Automotive car company".
“Every aspect has been considered, and solutions resolved, whether it be on the production facility’s timing and layout, the local sensitivities regarding the practical, logistical and environmental impact of the new facility, or how we deal with details such as keeping the site and surrounding roads as clean and as traffic-free as possible. It’s very important to me, to all at McLaren, and to our partners in this project that the MPC is not only brought to life on time and on budget, but that it’s also completed in a way that supports the Woking area and its community".
“I was born in Woking and am proud that McLaren is the town’s biggest employer as well as being a genuine global leader in technological innovation and high-value manufacturing. With that in mind, it’s great news for all concerned that the MPC is already ahead of schedule.”
Works on the MPC build programme started on Monday 1st March as scheduled following a very thorough planning process that took into account all local concerns over the MPC’s impact on traffic and jobs, as well as the environmental and visual impact. McLaren worked closely with a number of local groups whose members had expressed doubts over the development, reassuring all concerned that the MPC would make minimal visual impact on the local environment, whilst economically and industrially supporting Woking as a world-leading centre of manufacturing innovation and technology.
The MPC aims to reflect the environmental credentials of the McLaren Technology Centre (MTC), McLaren’s award-winning Woking headquarters, and examples of the environmentally sensitive and detailed development programme that McLaren is undertaking include:
* McLaren Automotive’s SLR manufacturing operations and processes were reviewed. As a result, energy consumption within the MPC will be reduced for the 12C and future cars. For example, specialist ‘low-energy’ paints have been selected for the 12C that can be cooled mainly through natural air-flow within the building. Noise levels will also be negligible
* A major re-contouring landscape project will sensitively screen the MPC from visitors to the adjacent Horsell Common. Importantly, the landscaping project is re-using all existing soil (unusually, none is leaving the site), massively reducing the transportation impact and the potential for the introduction of invasive plant species to Horsell Common
* 820 new trees, and 68 existing mature trees that were transplanted in a local nursery before the bird-nesting season, will be planted on-site to further screen the MPC and MTC and positively contribute to the local environment
* An extensive landscaping programme features the planting and sowing of native shrubs and a grass seed mix in sympathy with Horsell Common species that will ensure the site is in keeping with its location
* Every vehicle that leaves the site receives a high-power wheel and chassis wash to ensure that dirt and mud is not left on the surrounding roads: a safety concern that McLaren also believes is of visual benefit to the surrounding area
* McLaren has purchased the Heather Farm facility of industrial buildings and concrete hard-standing, adjacent to the Horsell Common Special Protection Area, and has bequeathed ownership of the site to the Horsell Common Preservation Society
* All local public footpaths have been either retained or will be enhanced for future access, with project updates posted on the Horsell Common footpaths to keep the local community aware of progress
The MPC build programme is a technical and engineering challenge in itself. Set a rapid timescale of approximately one year from the start of construction to the production of the first 12C high-performance sports car, McLaren and its partners in the programme, Fosters & Partners and Terence O’Rourke, are well on course to open the doors to the 33,000m2 innovative new car production centre in the first half of 2011.
Highlights of the build programme include:
* At its peak, the construction programme will support 450 jobs
* 300 jobs (many highly skilled) will be added to the existing 500 at McLaren Automotive
* 180,000m3 of soil will be excavated. Typically on a major construction programme, much of the excavated soil would be removed from site. Unusually, but in keeping with McLaren’s consideration of its Woking home, all soil is being retained on site, saving the associated transport disruption of moving such large amounts of soil onto local Woking roads
* To date, almost 25,000 off-site lorry movements (3,000 per week) have been prevented through the project’s sensitive re-contouring plan that retains all soil on-site.
Ron Dennis added: “I’m pleased to be able to say that 2010 has been a fantastically exciting year so far at McLaren. The successful start to the MPC build programme follows our global launch of the new sports car company in March and a winning start to this season’s Formula 1 world championship for our Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula 1 team.
“We already have nearly 2,000 car enthusiasts expressing an interest in our first car, the 12C; we’ve already won two of the first four Grands Prix so far this season, including a one-two in China, and we’re currently leading both the Constructors’ World Championship and the Driver’s World Championship.
“Moreover, we’re already almost two weeks ahead of schedule on the MPC. The construction programme is yet another reflection of the passion of everyone at McLaren for the company to be the most innovative, most successful, and most respected sports car and motorsport business in the world, both now and in the future.”
MPC and MP4-12C in detail
The MPC will be the home of McLaren Automotive’s range of high-performance and highly efficient sports cars, supporting up to 800 jobs and manufacturing around 4,000 cars by the middle of the decade. New standards of quality will be introduced into the sports car market, as well as innovative new technologies unique to McLaren. All components on the cars are bespoke to McLaren.
The first 12C customer cars will be built in the Production Hall at the McLaren Technology Centre in late 2010, approximately three months before production transfers to the brand new McLaren Production Centre. They will follow the same build and quality processes that McLaren Automotive developed for the £300,000-plus carbonfibre based Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren.
However, in a revolutionary step that allows the 12C to retail at around half that price point, McLaren will introduce an innovative one-piece carbonfibre chassis structure known as the MonoCell: the first time that such a lightweight, safe and strong structure has been offered on a series production car in this market segment.
McLaren Automotive’s production strategy offers the best of both hand-built and ‘lean’ production processes. Fine-tuned during the SLR programme, it delivered cars built to the highest qualities expected by Mercedes-Benz, contributing to total production of 2,114 SLRs: a record number for any car in the £300,000-500,000 price point and any car built on a carbonfibre chassis.
The new MPC manufacturing facility will take the best of the company’s production processes and provide the perfect base to tailor-make up to 1,000 12C’s in 2011. It will exhibit a clear McLaren style and will espouse all the virtues of the MTC.
The MPC will be just two minutes by foot from the MTC, and production engineers and planners will therefore continue to benefit from the instant access they currently enjoy to the research, design and engineering teams in McLaren Automotive and McLaren Racing.
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"I have a problem with Porsches. They're wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one. I don't go around saying that Porsches are a pile of dung, but I do know that psychologically I couldn't handle owning one" Rowan Atkinson.
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MP4-12C : Update from Spain
McLaren Automotive is currently testing Validation Prototype (VP) cars at several locations around the world. A number of these cars have been built specifically to test the 12C’s levels of dynamic performance. Chief Test Driver Chris Goodwin has been evaluating all aspects of 12C prototype performance since the first concept phase vehicle was built at the McLaren Technology Centre, and he’s currently working on a test programme at Applus IDIADA in Northern Spain. Chris explains here how the 12C is already achieving its dynamic performance targets.
“We’re at a phase now where these prototypes are performing incredibly well and I’m loving every minute of being out here with the engineers and technicians working on the launch of the 12C.
“Every technical feature of the car has been designed to deliver outstanding ride, handling, straight-line performance and safety. The Carbon MonoCell was introduced to early prototype cars and because it weighs less than 80kg, the car at that point felt dramatically lighter and therefore more agile. Since then, a bespoke suspension system and features like Brake Steer have been tuned to ensure that when calibrated together, we have a car that promises to beat its direct competition in those areas when it launches in 2011.”
1st May 2010 - VP10 leaves the McLaren Technology Centre for testing in Spain.
“On the high speed bowl here at IDIADA, the 12C VP car is exceptionally stable even above 300kph. On the dynamic platform, the chassis electronics are helpful, but not intrusive and we are seeing great results on the handling course. An equal amount of work has been put into the low speed drivability of the 12C. On the public roads around here, it feels comfortable and unintimidating. I could drive it all day.
“There is still a way to go in developing the car. We have programmes planned to further test it in extreme hot and cold conditions, as well as to fine-tune subjective areas like in-car noise and cooling systems. We’re getting very close and I’m looking forward to handing over the results of this project to our first customers.”
McLaren Automotive is currently testing Validation Prototype (VP) cars at several locations around the world. A number of these cars have been built specifically to test the 12C’s levels of dynamic performance. Chief Test Driver Chris Goodwin has been evaluating all aspects of 12C prototype performance since the first concept phase vehicle was built at the McLaren Technology Centre, and he’s currently working on a test programme at Applus IDIADA in Northern Spain. Chris explains here how the 12C is already achieving its dynamic performance targets.
“We’re at a phase now where these prototypes are performing incredibly well and I’m loving every minute of being out here with the engineers and technicians working on the launch of the 12C.
“Every technical feature of the car has been designed to deliver outstanding ride, handling, straight-line performance and safety. The Carbon MonoCell was introduced to early prototype cars and because it weighs less than 80kg, the car at that point felt dramatically lighter and therefore more agile. Since then, a bespoke suspension system and features like Brake Steer have been tuned to ensure that when calibrated together, we have a car that promises to beat its direct competition in those areas when it launches in 2011.”
1st May 2010 - VP10 leaves the McLaren Technology Centre for testing in Spain.
“On the high speed bowl here at IDIADA, the 12C VP car is exceptionally stable even above 300kph. On the dynamic platform, the chassis electronics are helpful, but not intrusive and we are seeing great results on the handling course. An equal amount of work has been put into the low speed drivability of the 12C. On the public roads around here, it feels comfortable and unintimidating. I could drive it all day.
“There is still a way to go in developing the car. We have programmes planned to further test it in extreme hot and cold conditions, as well as to fine-tune subjective areas like in-car noise and cooling systems. We’re getting very close and I’m looking forward to handing over the results of this project to our first customers.”
"I have a problem with Porsches. They're wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one. I don't go around saying that Porsches are a pile of dung, but I do know that psychologically I couldn't handle owning one" Rowan Atkinson.
Moi j'aime bien les berlinettes à moteur centralze_shark a écrit :J'ai écouté dans l'avion une longue interview de Bob Lutz sur le podcast d'autoblog, il parlait notamment du fait que les berlinettes à moteur central arrière l'ennuyent prodigieusement ...
C'est assez vrai de toutes les Ferrari récentes, même si ils ont eu le coup de crayon un peu plus heureux avec la 458. C'est aussi vrai de la MP4-12C ou de l'Evora, des dessins insipides, prédictibles.
Ce qui m'ennuie au plus haut point, c'est le design de la 911, pétrifié depuis des décennies comme le mammouth cryogénisé dans la glace !!
Le dessin de la MP4-12C n'est pas du tout, mais alors pas du tout sans intérêt.
Bob Lutz a t'il déjà bien regardé une Gallardo ?
Je pense que Robert Lutz achète ses meubles chez Roche et Bobois
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Euuuhhh l'est pas central le moteur dans une 911...jl32 a écrit :
Moi j'aime bien les berlinettes à moteur central
Ce qui m'ennuie au plus haut point, c'est le design de la 911, pétrifié depuis des décennies comme le mammouth cryogénisé dans la glace !!
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Chacun ses goûts mais perso je suis plutôt de l'avis à M'sieur Lutz! (et c'est pas parce que j'ai un mamouth cryogénisé, de bleu!jl32 a écrit :Moi j'aime bien les berlinettes à moteur centralze_shark a écrit :J'ai écouté dans l'avion une longue interview de Bob Lutz sur le podcast d'autoblog, il parlait notamment du fait que les berlinettes à moteur central arrière l'ennuyent prodigieusement ...
C'est assez vrai de toutes les Ferrari récentes, même si ils ont eu le coup de crayon un peu plus heureux avec la 458. C'est aussi vrai de la MP4-12C ou de l'Evora, des dessins insipides, prédictibles.
Ce qui m'ennuie au plus haut point, c'est le design de la 911, pétrifié depuis des décennies comme le mammouth cryogénisé dans la glace !!
Le dessin de la MP4-12C n'est pas du tout, mais alors pas du tout sans intérêt.
Bob Lutz a t'il déjà bien regardé une Gallardo ?
Je pense que Robert Lutz achète ses meubles chez Roche et Bobois
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Showroom virtuel d'une concession Mclaren.
Dernière édition par Corsugone le 16 nov. 2010 17:11, édité 1 fois.
"I have a problem with Porsches. They're wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one. I don't go around saying that Porsches are a pile of dung, but I do know that psychologically I couldn't handle owning one" Rowan Atkinson.
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Et ben, heureusement qu'ils avaient dit que la "forme" du showroom n'était pas super importante!Corsugone a écrit :Showroom Virtuel d'une concession Mclaren.
Je note qu'au delà des 4 autos neuves, chaque showroom aura en plus 2 casques de Lewis...
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