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McLaren MP4-12C with Plastic Ducks in Birmingham

McLaren MP4-12C with plastic ducks. I am not joking, someone really did it. The owner of this orange MP4-12C in Birmingham, UK has a great sense of humour and decided to place ducks from one side to other side of the McLaren’s dashboard.

Honestly I have no idea why the owner placed the ducks but there is something really obvious, it became viral. People were taking the photo of the car and the ducks like crazy.

This is the answer for the “how to become viral” question :)

 

 

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Autosport International 2014 #asi14 | West Midlands Police Cars McLaren MP4-12C, BMW i3 and 1-Series

New cars of West Midlands Highway Police; McLaren MP4-12C, BMW i3 and BMW 1-Series. Many of might be thinking the West Midlands paid to buy these cars but they are donated, so don’t be confused with the conversation on Twitter. If you want to see the new cars of West Midlands Police, just visit the Autosport International 2014, Hall 10.

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McLaren MP4-12C: Dubai Police Car

Dubai Police forces added a new high speed patrol car to their fleet, a McLaren MP4-12C! MP4-12C designed by Frank Stephenson and I know that Frank did not intend to design a car as a police vehicle. However, Dubai is a different world and they love to employ very fast cars to their police fleet. 
McLaren MP4-12C is powered by a twin-turbo 3.8-lt petrol engine with 626 HP and 600 Nm of torque and needs 3.3 seconds to reach 100 km/h. Top speed is not limited to 250 km/h, it is 329 km/h. Get the wind behind you, it will reach 330 km/h!

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Frank Stephenson Caught Driving McLaren MP4-12C Spider

Frank Stephenson caught driving McLaren MP4-12C Spider at Warwick. My title sounds like I started to work like a paparazzi. Actually, it might be a better blogging environment with funny content. 
Design director of McLaren, Frank Stephenson today arrived Contechs Design Awards ceremony at Warwick with an orange McLaren MP4-12C Spider. Actually, it is quite hard to spot Frank Stephenson driving his own design MP4-12C but thanks to my luck an in-depth investigation, I manage to spot him inside one.
If you are planning to catch Frank, it is quite hard, he is all around the world all the time ;)

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McLaren MP4-12C Spider from London

McLaren MP4-12C Spider, one of the fastest cabrio sports car on planet. Literally, 12C Spider is a hard top version of the 12C Coupe, the main difference is the state-of-art retractable hard top. It can opened or closed speeds to up 30km/h. Despite this mechanical roof of 12C Spider, there is no sacrifice on the performance figures. MP4-12C Spider still manages to reach 100 km/h in 3.1 seconds but the top speed is only 329 km/h, just 4 km/h lower than the coupe.

Actually, you will never ever feel the difference between the coupe and the spider. Usually, Spider versions have a very tendency to be less rigid and slower but this did not happen with McLaren MP-12C Spider. I really don’t know how they made it, but they made it.

My personal opinion, buy the MP4-12C Spider instead of the coupe. You can open the roof when you need and it does not look different when the roof is in closed position!

Here are the photos of the MP4-12C Spider from a sunny London day.

MP4-12C Spider is powered by a 3.8-lt twin turbo V8 engine with 626 HP coupled with a 7-speed double clutch automatic.

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Improved McLaren MP4-12C at London Dealer

McLaren MP4-12C is the second car wholly designed and manufactured by McLaren after McLaren F1. MP4-12C does not have a very charming and marketing friendly model name but that’s the only drawback. MP4-12C is designed by Frank Stephenson and you can watch my interview with him about MP4-12C on YouTube.
Last week, I visited the McLaren’s London dealer in Knightsbridge, placed under the most expensive apartment One Hyde Park. Like the factory, McLaren dealer is designed with perfection. And they show the improved version of MP4-12C with a special colour, Kiwi Green.
This MP4-12C is no different than the previous one, actually only minor things have changed and except vehicle rise system and door button, the rest of the software upgrade can be applied to existing owners with no extra cost.
The revised MP4-12C has more power, 625 HP without any revision on engine or exhaust, just a new software. New gearbox software to improve gear shifts. There is a new lightweight wheel design. Software update on in-car entertainment system to improve sound system and experience.
Unfortunately, physical door button is not available to apply to existing vehicles due to technical issues. But, it is better than the touch sensitive button. And I was sure that, McLaren is going to replace iPhone style door opening system. It was too sensitive for adverse weather conditions. Another cleaver feature that cannot be applied is the rising vehicle for speed bumps and adverse road conditions. This is a must for fast cars!
And McLaren is going to keep developing the MP4-12C and offer these updates with no extra cost to existing owners. Because, McLaren is a Formula 1 company and each season the F1 car is developed all the time. Therefore, McLaren transferred this philosophy mass production road car, MP4-12C to reflect McLaren DNA.
And thanks for the great hospitality to McLaren London Dealer.

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McLaren MP4-12C from Instagram

McLaren MP4-12C from Instagram all around the world!

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McLaren P1: Inspired by UFOs

McLaren P1 is revealed today, this is the car that will be competing with Bugatti Veyron. Today, many journalists wrote many things about McLaren P1, for that reason I don’t want to repeat the same words.
In my opinion, P1 looks amazing! P1 is one of the best-looking cars on market today and P1 is going to be an icon. McLaren P1 does share some design bits from MP4-12C but that is not a surprise. However, this similar design bits do not ruin the harmony of the P1. Actually, McLaren P1 looks like a stealth plane and UFO. That’s the first that came to my mind, when I saw the McLaren P1.
Moreover, the rear-end of the McLaren P1 looks better than its front-end. Especially the extremely thin brake lights definitely look fabulous at night.
I guess Frank Stephenson wanted to increase the power of the P1 by using the exhaust as propulsion system. When you look at the exhaust of the McLaren P1, you expect to see flames coming out.
McLaren P1 is going to have 963 PS of power by using 3.8-lt V8 engine and Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS), zero to 100 kph will be 2.8 seconds and top speed of 384 kph (239 mph).

 

 

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A New McLaren MP4-12C, X1 Concept

McLaren released pictures of an one-off model built by McLaren Special Operations and it is called X-1. X1 is a MP4-12C with a personalised unique design for a very respectful McLaren customers. X1 shares the same technical details with the MP4-12C but looks totally different.

During the design process, customers had a meeting with Frank Stephenson to discuss about the design. Also, customers asked cues from iconic cars from the past (1961 Facel Vega, 1953 Chrysler D’Elegance Ghia, 1959 Buick Electra, 1939 Mercedes-Benz 540K and 1971 Citroën SM).

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McLaren MP4-12C Spider Photos

McLaren MP4-12C Spider is finally revealed. McLaren’s state of art sport car MP4-12C started the life as a coupe and recently a folding roof Spider version is released. In my opinion, the folding roof is a very cleaver idea and does not deform the harmony of the design of the MP4-12C.

Folding roof only adds 40 kg extra to weight, closes in less than 17 seconds and you operate it speeds up to 30 kph (19 mph). And price starts from £195,000

So, well done Frank :)

And here is the technical information:
MP4-12C Spider*
(625 PS/616 bhp)
MP4-12C *
(625 PS/616 bhp)
0-62 mph (0-100 kph)
3.1 sec
3.1 sec
0-100mph (0-161kph)
6.1
6.0
0-124 mph(0-200 kph)
9.0 sec
8.8 sec
¼ mile (400m)
10.8 sec @ 134 mph
(216 kph)
10.6 sec @ 136 mph (219 kph)
V Max
204 mph (329 kph)
207 mph (333 kph)
Fuel efficiency, EU MPG
(litres/100km)
24.2 (11.7)
24.2 (11.7)
CO2 g/km
279
279

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