More Details on McLaren’s F1 Successor?
Last week, we learned McLaren was going to unveil the successor to the legendary F1—codenamed the P12— at the Paris Motor Show. The spy shots we posted a couple months back are probably the best guide as to what it’ll look like, but over the weekend, InsideMcLaren took “all the talk, rumors, official quotes, and likely guesses and compressed them into an entirely fictional InsideMcLaren Paris unveiling.” Of course, we’ll have to wait and see how accurate it is, because none of this has been confirmed. But if they’re right, the numbers, to put it mildly, are impressive. Between the turbocharged 3.8L V8’s 803hp and a 160hp KERS— Kinetic Energy Recovery System—the new McLaren will be packing a dizzying 963hp. With a curb weight just a tick under 2700lbs, that would translate to 2.81lbs per horsepower, which is bonkers.
