car interior McLaren MP4-12C 2011

car interior McLaren MP4-12C 2011 .  The compact 3.8-liter, twin-turbocharged V-8, McLaren is most notable for winning no fewer than 163 Formula 1 grand-prix races and 12 drivers’ titles The windshield frame bolts onto the tub and has a cast aluminum base, a stamped aluminum surround, and boron-steel tubes running through it. , a record surpassed only by Ferrari. So it’s only fitting that McLaren is now seriously going after its Italian arch rival off the racetrack with this new mid-engined road car, the MP4-12C, which aims squarely at Ferrari’s F430 and forthcoming 458 Italia.

Although the stunning McLaren F1, produced from 1993 to 1998, was a fabulous supercar, at about $1 million it was too expensive. Indeed, just 100 were made of a hoped-for production run of 300. The new, less ambitious car is aimed at a much larger audience and should cost about $225,000 when it goes on sale in early 2011.