McLaren F1
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McLaren has revealed its new track-focused P1, which wears the automaker’s iconic GTR badge last used on the string of McLaren F1 GTR race cars built in the mid-1990s. F1 GTRs have competed in various motorsport competitions but the car’s most famous accomplishment was overall victory at the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans. The F1 GTR raced up until 2005 when the final chassis was retired, but now it’s being reborn in the form of the P1 GTR. The new P1 GTR will start deliveries next year to mark the 20th anniversary of the F1 GTR’s win at Le Mans, but a...
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1995 McLaren F1 Heading To Gooding & Co. Auction For $12-14 Million: Pebble Beach 2014
While the Ferrari 250s and 275s continue to dominate the record sale prices at collector car auctions around the world, the McLaren F1 appears to be gaining ground, with this pristine three-owner example expected to bring $12,000,000 to $14,000,000 at auction during this year’s Gooding &...
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GoPro Captures A 1996 McLaren F1 GTR Hot Lap: Video
Race driver Justin Bell climbs back in a McLaren F1 GTR for some GoPro action.
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McLaren F1 Owners Spend Two Loud & Lovely Days Together: Video
When you own a McLaren F1, you enter a small club. Just 106 examples were produced, and all became immediate prized possessions the moment they left the Woking assembly line. If you own and drive a McLaren F1, it's highly unlikely that you'll come across another example while out tooling around...
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McLaren F1 Flipped During Road Trip With Rowan Atkinson: Video Update
Upside down in a ditch against a tree is no place for any car, but it’s an especially painful place to find your unique McLaren F1. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what happened to one unlucky owner in Italy today. Now, you can see the aftermath on video. ALSO SEE: Dodge Drops More Photos...
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1997 McLaren F1 GTR Longtail Fetches $5.28 Million At Auction
A McLaren F1 race car once piloted by ex-Formula One driver J.J. Lehto was sold at auction over the weekend for a staggering $5,280,000. The price paid is certainly an incredible sum, but you have to consider that only around 100 F1s were ever built, including racing versions like the one featured...
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Another of the uber-rare McLaren F1 supercars is going up for auction, this GTR ‘Longtail’ racing variant that’s set to be sold to the highest bidder at a vehicle auction taking place in Scottsdale, Arizona in mid-January. With less than a hundred F1s ever built, the cars, including racing versions, typically sell for millions at auction and we expect this prime example to be no different. MUST WATCH: Twin-Turbo Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Shoots Massive Flames On The Dyno: Video It is a 1997 McLaren F1 GTR with chassis number 021R. Auction house Gooding & Company which is...
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McLaren F1 Replica That Actually Looks Good And Is Also Fast: Video
Eight years ago, rabid Top Gear fan Jacek Mazur set out to build a replica of his dream car, the McLaren F1. We first heard about Mazur and his ambitious project back in 2011, but now the Polish amateur mechanic has finally completed the car. Mazur’s F1 replica is likely to fool even an...
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McLaren F1 engine gets exposed in Jay Leno's Garage
You're about to witness the "scariest thing" ever done in Jay Leno's Garage: the extraction of a McLaren F1 supercar's V-12 engine. Well, you don't actually get to see the extraction process, but you do get to see the engine on the stand, with some nice detail shots and info from Jay himself...
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McLaren F1 LM Prototype’s First Visit Outside The U.K. Is The Geneva Motor Show
McLaren’s latest P1 supercar may end up being overshadowed at this week’s 2013 Geneva Motor Show by another of the firm’s supercars, one much rarer and much more expensive. We are, of course, talking about the legendary McLaren F1 LM, built to commemorate the five McLaren F1 GTR...
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McLaren P1 Production Model, Full Specs Revealed
This is the McLaren P1 supercar as it will appear at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show on March 5 and in McLaren showrooms all around the globe later in the year. The production version looks almost identical to the concept version unveiled last year in Paris, with only a few subtle details to tell them...
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You don't want the repair bill for Mr. Bean's McLaren F1
In 2011, comedian and car guy Rowan Atkinson (best known as Mr. Bean) lost control of his McLaren F1 on a wet road in Haddon, England. The high-dollar supercar reportedly spun several times before sliding backwards into a sign post and tree. Thanks to the strength of the McLaren F1’s carbon...
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Next year will see the launch of the McLaren P1, the spiritual successor to a supercar that turned the performance car world on its head when it was launched more than two decades ago, and which to this day can lay claim to a land speed record. That car is, of course, the legendary McLaren F1, which remains the world’s fastest naturally-aspirated car, having achieved an unmatched top speed--in production car terms--of 240.1 mph back in 1998. We can now take a rare look at the McLaren F1’s gestation, thanks to a series of photos depicting the clay modeling stage of the...
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McLaren P1 Supercar Spy Shots
Intended, in a way, to fill the role of the vaunted McLaren F1, the new P1 carries a lot of enthusiast baggage on its shoulders--not to mention the brand's (re-)nascent reputation as a leader in the extreme performance road car field. Will it live up to the hype? Quite possibly. As we saw at Paris...
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McLaren F1 Sells For $5.5 Million
When it comes to rare cars, few are harder to come by than the McLaren F1 supercar. The F1 is one the best performance cars on the planet, even two decades after its launch, and finding one up for sale is next to impossible. That’s because only 106 examples were ever created during the...
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Is The McLaren P1 A Worthy F1 Successor? #YouTellUs
McLaren has finally taken the wraps off the new P1 supercar, which has also been known as the P12. While the car looks nearly production ready, it's actually only a design preview. The production P1 will be revealed sometime in the next 12 months. While McLaren hasn't released any specifications...
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Rare McLaren F1 GTR Longtail Heads To Pebble Beach Auction
Set to grace the auction block at Bonhams’ annual Quail Lodge Sale leading up to August's 2012 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is this ultra-rare Gulf Team Davidoff 1997 McLaren F1 GTR 'Longtail' race car. Long-term readers of this site may remember the car being up for sale previously...
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McLaren F1 Successor Won’t Chase Bugatti Veyron’s Top Speed
Ron Dennis, the boss of McLaren and a man who once described the Bugatti Veyron as “pig ugly” and a “piece of junk,” has revealed some telling details about his next supercar, the long-awaited successor to the legendary McLaren F1. First and foremost, Dennis has stated that...
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With a history like that of the McLaren F1, once the fastest car in the world, with a funky three-seat center-drive layout, breathtaking acceleration, and iconic styling, building a car to take up its mantle is a difficult undertaking. According to the latest reports out of the U.K., however, McLaren is up to the task. First, the vitals: 800 horsepower, a 3.8-liter twin-turbo V-8 engine, KERS energy storage and power boost, F1-style pistol-grip steering wheel, and, sadly to some, just two seats. The engine will be the same basic unit used in the MP4-12C, McLaren's more "mundane" supercar, but...
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Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) Crashes His McLaren F1
This is the second time that Rowan Atkinson has crashed his McLaren F1, the previous was a minor incident where he rear-ended another car back in 1999.
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McLaren F1 V-12 originally pegged for BMW M8 supercar
To this day BMW has never launched an M8 but the automaker did come close to doing so at one point, though the project was canned at the last minute. Back in 1990 BMW built a one-off prototype version of its then new 8-Series sports coupe and labeled it the M8. The prototype featured a 6.0-liter...
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Sacrilege: McLaren F1 Crashes On German Autobahn
The McLaren F1 is considered by many to be one of the greatest cars of all time and to this day it’s still the fastest naturally aspirated production road car in the world. With only 106 examples ever built, it’s also safe to say that the McLaren F1 is one of the rarest cars of the modern era...
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McLaren F1 Successor Coming In 2012
When the original McLaren F1 first hit the streets back in the early ‘90s it almost immediately catapulted to the top of the performance car scene, taking home the title of world’s fastest production car in 1998 and holding it right up until 2005. Building a car better than the original...
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McLaren Celebrates 20th Anniversary Of F1 Supercar
McLaren Automotive, the road car division of the McLaren motorsport group, is on the verge of launching its first all-new model in decades: the MP4-12C. It’s hard to believe that the company’s last model is now more than 20 years old. That’s right, the legendary McLaren F1 supercar has just...
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