Tuning company Hennessey Performance Engineering has set their sights on British automaker McLaren Automotive and their new MP4-12C. The company is offering their HPE800 Twin Turbo upgrade for the McLaren MP4-12C, which includes powertrain upgrades, aero package upgrades, Hennessey CarbonAero bodywork and a center-positioned frontal air inlet with hood extractor. We’re guessing Hennessey’s upgrade will take [...]
Late last summer, McLaren hinted that they may introduce a convertible version of their sexy MP4-12C. And considering that Ferrari has just launched its 458 Spyder—in which McLaren said that the MP4-12C was aimed directly at the 458—it seems like McLaren is persisting with the plan. Britain’s renowned publication, CAR Magazine, apparently was able to [...]
The McLaren MP4-12C is one of the most talked about supercars of 2011 and that’s not going to change anytime soon… well, at least not until McLaren Automotive introduces a new model. At the opening og its new state-of-the-art production facility in Woking, England, McLaren’s Executive Chairman and CEO Ron Dennis confirmed that the company [...]
Seventeen seasons deep, Top Gear is returning for number eighteen in January. The show’s stars, Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond, were seen filming on the day of the announcement for the upcoming season. The filiming was taking place at the Piazza Venezia in Rome, and later in Lecce, close to the Nardo high [...]
The 2012 McLaren MP4-12C has managed to avoid federal gas-guzzler tax, an unlikely move for a supercar . However, the automaker is still ironing out creases in terms of ‘quality issues,’ which has caused the launch to be delayed to early January in the United States. Originally, the MP4-12C was supposed to go on sale [...]
UK auto publication Evo has unveiled its list of contenders for the Car of the Year 2011. Evo’s Car of the Year award has become UK’s gold standard of performance car comparisons, consisting of only the manufacturers of the hottest and most impressive new cars of the year. This year Evo headed to Portimao in [...]
Last week, we introduced a new segment here at egmCarTech that gives you a breakdown of the top 10 most important things you need to know about a certain car. Yes, we know that we’ve been focusing a lot on supercars with the new segment but we really can’t help it. So, today, we’re not [...]
McLaren Automotive has released a new video of the MP4-12C hot-lap around the Nurburgring Nordschleife. The lap was unofficial and was conducted time by Sport Auto Editor in Chief Horst von Saurma-Jeltsch. Saurma-Jeltsch lapped the track in 7 minutes and 28 seconds. We’re waiting for an official lap time. Click here for more news on [...]
McLaren is seeing a very healthy revitalization thanks to its MP4-12C super car. But let’s not forget, McLaren is most famous for producing the car that once held the record for being the world’s fastest production car for over a decade before Koenigsegg took the title in 2005. And because of their efforts to expand [...]
McLaren is slowing down production of the MP4-12 C due to quality issues – however, the company says the quality issues are not related to safety or performance. “There are no safety concerns for the delay,” Tony Joseph, director of McLaren North America, told Autoweek. “We’ve had some quality-related issues in a few cars we [...]
