The phrase “race car for the street” has so much mileage on it that it could have gone to Uranus and back about six times. Of course, there are some instances where it’s correctly applied,...
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After releasing the MP4-12C (and the 650S that followed), McLaren expanded into the upper echelons of the supercar market with the P1. Now, however, the time has come for The House that Bruce Built to...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VQ3ROolkyU[/youtube] The McLaren P1, like the rival hybrid hypercars from Ferrari and Porsche, is touted as being a sensible speed machine, one that’s just as capable of put-putting down to the local bodega under battery...
Despite being only a half-decade removed from returning to the road-car-building business, McLaren has already managed to (re-)establish itself as a powerhouse in that particular segment of the market. And it’s continuing to keep engineers...
If it’s March, it’s Geneva Motor Show time. And the 2015 edition has been one of the most performance-oriented we can remember, with a bumper crop of high-horsepower (and high-style) rides practically bursting through the...
The McLaren MP4-12C was by no means an underwhelming automobile, yet it wasn’t long before its maker decided to replace it with an evolved version called the 650S. That car is even less of a...
If you were to guess what sort of person would be one of the first (maybe the first) on the planet to own one of each of today’s gas-electric hypercars (the Ferrari LaFerrari, McLaren P1...
Playing a recent Need for Speed game requires a healthy suspension of disbelief on the part of the player; after all, no real law enforcement officials patrol the mean streets in supercars costing six- or...
When legendary designer Gordon Murray and his team were developing the car that would become the McLaren F1, their focus was strictly on creating the ultimate supercar for the street; racing the F1 wasn’t really...
Although the recent – and controversy-dogged – Patagonia special provided some needed relief from a long Top Gear drought, the program’s extended-length specials that the BBC premieres during the December holidays are kind of seasons...