2011 McLaren MP4-12C PictureMcLaren Automotive is in the final stages of developing a ambit of avant-garde high-performance sports cars that will additionally be awful efficient, high-quality, lightweight, practical, dynamic, safe, adequate and visually arresting. On Monday 17 January 2011, the aboriginal McLaren MP4-12C assembly car entered the McLaren Technology Centre (MTC) General Assembly Hall in Woking, England.
At its heart, the McLaren MP4-12C appearance a advocate carbon fibre anatomy structure, the Carbon MonoCell: the aboriginal time a car in this bazaar articulation is based about such a able and failing antagonism car engineering band-aid and the aboriginal time any car has anytime featured a jumpsuit carbon fibre structure.
This footfall change in sports car architecture agency that the 12C introduces new standards not aloof in handling, ride and absolute performance, but additionally safety, abridgement and acumen in an already aggressive sector.
Martin Whitmarsh, Aggregation Principal of McLaren's antagonism aggregation accent the basic allotment that McLaren's motorsport and alley car acquaintance played in developing the 12C: "McLaren has for years offered a almighty mix of chase car and alley car technologies. This aggregate of McLaren's achievement heritage, and approaching demands on what is accepted of aerial achievement sports cars in the 21st century, gave us a head-start back we boarded on this project. The 12C, and approaching variants, draws on the spirit of Formula 1 and delivers real-world abstruse advances."
The aboriginal car from the new company, the McLaren MP4-12C, is a aerial achievement two-seat mid-engine archetypal in the 'core' sports car bazaar articulation for cars costing amid £125,000 and £175,000. The 12C is authentic McLaren, featuring no aftereffect genitalia from any added car, and will be produced by McLaren in the UK. It goes on auction through a dedicated, common banker arrangement in aboriginal 2011
