New McLaren

They are making facelift of SLR at the moment . . .

 

Could it be the Caparo T1 which is discussed in this thread? As stated in one of the posts, two of the people are from the Mclaren team...
http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=102912
Matt

 

They are also working on the on-again, off-again plans for the P8 supercar project. Apparently this car would be more sports oriented and less of a GT car. It would be designed to be price competitive with the F430 and Gallardo, offering similar performance while using F1-like construction techniques. It won't be a successor to the original McLaren F1 in the true sense, but will be more like that car than the SLR proved to be.

>8^)
ER

 

Unfortunatly Mercedes had pulled the p8 project because of reliability issues with thier sedans. I read an article saying that they took the engineers "toy" away. Basically rediverting funds and development to reliability issues. I hope it is back on again.

Darrell.

 

The last thing I remember seeing about this was from AutoWeek in Februrary. A link to the article is here: http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060201/FREE/302010002/1024. They said that they are still going ahead with plans for the P8, plus more.