TweetMcLaren F1

The car was first introduced 1993, McLaren F1 is definitely the world's most expensive supercar and the fastest one as well.

Designed as a Formula 1 for 2 (or even 3) McLaren F1 feautures a 6.0lt. A BMW engine that can reach 60mph (97km/h) in 3.1 seconds. The car incorporates many world firsts for a road car: a fully carbon fibre monocoque structure, fully active fan-assisted ground effect aerodynamics, a central driving position with two offset rear passenger seats.

They have stopped producing the car after only about 100 F1s were built. Your only chance is to go after the used cars on the market, even then, the price tag is super high.

Gordon Murray the original designer of the McLaren F1 also desighned the bradham Alfa-Romeo "fan" car. Which won its first and only race; the Grand-Prix of 1978. The sports car was immediately banned cause it just out performed the other cars by a mile. Gordon also designed the world champion Brabham-BMW of 1983.

Gordons Dream was to beat the world, regardless of the cost to produce the car. His target was to make the F1 car as compact as possible, but at a practical weight (2205 lb.) and be powered by a atmospheric engine for immediate response and develop 550 hp.

At this time McLaren was using Honda for their race cars, so it made sense to use honda for the McLarens motor too. Honda declined, because they felt that they not spare the capacity to make such a powerful motor. Murray then went with BMW for the engine. Paul Rosche his old friend was the one to build murrays engine. Paul designed just the engine an all-aluminum 6.1-liter, 48-valve, V-12 with developed 627 hp.

To reach the weight standard with Murray had set, they made the car body of Carbon-Fiber Composites, mainly in a aluminum honey-comb sandwich. Another example of saving weight is the Kenwood CD stereo system. The unit that the manufacturer proposed weighed 37.5 lbs. Murray would only accept half of that amount of weight. They toke the callenge of making such a stereo. The system they came up with was even better than the first and only weighed 18.7 lb.

The McLaren cars are divided in to two small factories, each employing about 60 people. One of these locations was once occupied by John Barnard when he first word far Ferrari as a designer. That building is now deticated to manufacturing the McLaren F1's monobody. No big presses or small ones shaping the structure of the body or body componets, tailors manipulating patterns around which they cut carbon-fiber parts and bond them together or assemble aluminum and Nomex sandwiches. After assembly of various parts in highly accurate jigs, the body is cured at 260 Degrees Fahrenheit. The front end of the car is speciallt designed energy-absorbing structure, the McLaren is the only road-going car that survived a 30mph barrier crash without any structure damage.

From the work shop the Body is delivered to the best paint shop avalible, where a final later is spryed on with a vinyl-based protective coat, which is peeled of right before the car is delivered. It then goes to a highly skilled upholstery shop( which also works for Rolls-Royce and Jaguar).

The finished body is then delivered to the assembly shop, where the managment and technical offices are located is located. Assembly takes place in a single room that looks more like a living room than a work shop. Usually five cars in various stages of completment are located in this room. High quality carpets with a large McLaren script are provided for the workers where assembly work under the car is required. Huge front rubber mounts and rear extensions of the body structure supports the engine and transaxle unit, the entire rerar-doubled-wishbone-and-inboard-spring/shock-suspension being provided on the transaxle, as in Formula 1. The front suspension is along similar lines, but mounts on an aluminum subframe.

The engine and its carbon-fiber airbox are worth a good look before disappearing into the engine bay. Dispite its huge capacite, the engine is only 23.6 in. long and weight 586 lb. with all ancillaries. Magnesium castings are used for the dry sump, the cam carriers and covers, the oil pump and the housing for the variable intakes camshaft timing control. Intake control is by 12 individual butterfly valves, and the exhaust piping is a real work of art. It delivers the exhaust gases into four highly heat-resistant inconel catalysts, each with its own lambda-sond control, befor they reach the huge and very effective muffler. The entire exaust system doubles as a crushable structure in case of rear impact.

On the engine is the pure racing like carbon-fiber clutch contained in an aluminum housing. There is no fly wheel as in racing cars, which makes the engine extremly responsive.

Gordon insisted that the car should seat three with the driver in the middle to provide a real Formula 1 feal and evenly distrubute the weight. the car was designed to provide moderate aerodynamic downforce. The downforce provides proper balance between front and the rear and makes sure the car remains stable at hign speeds.

The detail work shows exactly how much thought went it to this car. Here are some examples

The front suspension wishbone are pivited, on either side, on a rigid sub frame mounted to the aluminum-alloy front bulkhead by four rubber bushings that provide a fairly large amount of fore-and-aft compliance. but they are 25 times harder radically and are arranged in such away that casts off wind when braking is three or four times less than other exotic sports cars. Braking at 1g, tha caster angel is reduced by omly 1.02 degrtees.

Whenever the brakes are aplied, a small rear spoiler rises to move the center of aerodyamic pressure rearward and compensat for the destabilizing forward movement caused by brake dive. In its raised position, the spoiler also uncovers, on either side, a duct into which air is forced to cool the rear brakes. A swith on the dashboard enables the driver to raise the rear spoiler for extra grip if required, like in wet weather at high speeds.

Most of the downforce is generared by ground effect obtained by a flat floor that terminates in a diffuser. To increase the active mass of air flowing the car, two permanently running fans on either side of the car remove the boundary (slow flowing) later and discharge it into the engine for cooling.

The heat generated by its large engine and its catalytic exaust system is a problem, the heat-isolating material is extensivly used to protect the ****pit and various ancillaries. The efficiency of the insolating material has been increased by facing it with heat-reflective marerial, the most efficient of which is gold. This is quite extensively used, mainly in the engine compartment, at a cost of approximately $3500.

The laminated windsheild, specially developed by St. Gobain in Aachen, Germany, includes an efficient electrical heating system by a resistive plasma sprayed onto the inner face of the outsife glass laminate. This treatment also reduces heat entry by 20% and ultraviolet light by 85%.

From the moment the finished body reaches the assembly shop, work proceeds without stress. Everyone is given the time to do his job properly. Assembly takes 2250 man hours. Every car is built to order.

TweetHell yeah some guy here drives one. A McLaren that is. Amazing car. I saw it going down the street the 1st week I lived here and havent seen it since. Been here for over a year. Oil money town. Some are so rich here and others are so poor.

Tweetanyone ever see the inside of a mclaren? It could possibly be the least comfortable car on the planet, i saw a show where they compared it to the enzo and the guy had to practically disloacte is hips and shoulders just to get in...i guess considerin how sick and how fast it is inside luxuries arent that big of a deal

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McLaren F1

The car was first introduced 1993, McLaren F1 is definitely the world's most expensive supercar and the fastest one as well.

Designed as a Formula 1 for 2 (or even 3) McLaren F1 feautures a 6.0lt. A BMW engine that can reach 60mph (97km/h) in 3.1 seconds. The car incorporates many world firsts for a road car: a fully carbon fibre monocoque structure, fully active fan-assisted ground effect aerodynamics, a central driving position with two offset rear passenger seats.

They have stopped producing the car after only about 100 F1s were built. Your only chance is to go after the used cars on the market, even then, the price tag is super high.

Gordon Murray the original designer of the McLaren F1 also desighned the bradham Alfa-Romeo "fan" car. Which won its first and only race; the Grand-Prix of 1978. The sports car was immediately banned cause it just out performed the other cars by a mile. Gordon also designed the world champion Brabham-BMW of 1983.

Gordons Dream was to beat the world, regardless of the cost to produce the car. His target was to make the F1 car as compact as possible, but at a practical weight (2205 lb.) and be powered by a atmospheric engine for immediate response and develop 550 hp.

At this time McLaren was using Honda for their race cars, so it made sense to use honda for the McLarens motor too. Honda declined, because they felt that they not spare the capacity to make such a powerful motor. Murray then went with BMW for the engine. Paul Rosche his old friend was the one to build murrays engine. Paul designed just the engine an all-aluminum 6.1-liter, 48-valve, V-12 with developed 627 hp.

To reach the weight standard with Murray had set, they made the car body of Carbon-Fiber Composites, mainly in a aluminum honey-comb sandwich. Another example of saving weight is the Kenwood CD stereo system. The unit that the manufacturer proposed weighed 37.5 lbs. Murray would only accept half of that amount of weight. They toke the callenge of making such a stereo. The system they came up with was even better than the first and only weighed 18.7 lb.

The McLaren cars are divided in to two small factories, each employing about 60 people. One of these locations was once occupied by John Barnard when he first word far Ferrari as a designer. That building is now deticated to manufacturing the McLaren F1's monobody. No big presses or small ones shaping the structure of the body or body componets, tailors manipulating patterns around which they cut carbon-fiber parts and bond them together or assemble aluminum and Nomex sandwiches. After assembly of various parts in highly accurate jigs, the body is cured at 260 Degrees Fahrenheit. The front end of the car is speciallt designed energy-absorbing structure, the McLaren is the only road-going car that survived a 30mph barrier crash without any structure damage.

From the work shop the Body is delivered to the best paint shop avalible, where a final later is spryed on with a vinyl-based protective coat, which is peeled of right before the car is delivered. It then goes to a highly skilled upholstery shop( which also works for Rolls-Royce and Jaguar).

The finished body is then delivered to the assembly shop, where the managment and technical offices are located is located. Assembly takes place in a single room that looks more like a living room than a work shop. Usually five cars in various stages of completment are located in this room. High quality carpets with a large McLaren script are provided for the workers where assembly work under the car is required. Huge front rubber mounts and rear extensions of the body structure supports the engine and transaxle unit, the entire rerar-doubled-wishbone-and-inboard-spring/shock-suspension being provided on the transaxle, as in Formula 1. The front suspension is along similar lines, but mounts on an aluminum subframe.

The engine and its carbon-fiber airbox are worth a good look before disappearing into the engine bay. Dispite its huge capacite, the engine is only 23.6 in. long and weight 586 lb. with all ancillaries. Magnesium castings are used for the dry sump, the cam carriers and covers, the oil pump and the housing for the variable intakes camshaft timing control. Intake control is by 12 individual butterfly valves, and the exhaust piping is a real work of art. It delivers the exhaust gases into four highly heat-resistant inconel catalysts, each with its own lambda-sond control, befor they reach the huge and very effective muffler. The entire exaust system doubles as a crushable structure in case of rear impact.

On the engine is the pure racing like carbon-fiber clutch contained in an aluminum housing. There is no fly wheel as in racing cars, which makes the engine extremly responsive.

Gordon insisted that the car should seat three with the driver in the middle to provide a real Formula 1 feal and evenly distrubute the weight. the car was designed to provide moderate aerodynamic downforce. The downforce provides proper balance between front and the rear and makes sure the car remains stable at hign speeds.

The detail work shows exactly how much thought went it to this car. Here are some examples

The front suspension wishbone are pivited, on either side, on a rigid sub frame mounted to the aluminum-alloy front bulkhead by four rubber bushings that provide a fairly large amount of fore-and-aft compliance. but they are 25 times harder radically and are arranged in such away that casts off wind when braking is three or four times less than other exotic sports cars. Braking at 1g, tha caster angel is reduced by omly 1.02 degrtees.

Whenever the brakes are aplied, a small rear spoiler rises to move the center of aerodyamic pressure rearward and compensat for the destabilizing forward movement caused by brake dive. In its raised position, the spoiler also uncovers, on either side, a duct into which air is forced to cool the rear brakes. A swith on the dashboard enables the driver to raise the rear spoiler for extra grip if required, like in wet weather at high speeds.

Most of the downforce is generared by ground effect obtained by a flat floor that terminates in a diffuser. To increase the active mass of air flowing the car, two permanently running fans on either side of the car remove the boundary (slow flowing) later and discharge it into the engine for cooling.

The heat generated by its large engine and its catalytic exaust system is a problem, the heat-isolating material is extensivly used to protect the ****pit and various ancillaries. The efficiency of the insolating material has been increased by facing it with heat-reflective marerial, the most efficient of which is gold. This is quite extensively used, mainly in the engine compartment, at a cost of approximately $3500.

The laminated windsheild, specially developed by St. Gobain in Aachen, Germany, includes an efficient electrical heating system by a resistive plasma sprayed onto the inner face of the outsife glass laminate. This treatment also reduces heat entry by 20% and ultraviolet light by 85%.

From the moment the finished body reaches the assembly shop, work proceeds without stress. Everyone is given the time to do his job properly. Assembly takes 2250 man hours. Every car is built to order.

I refuse to read this long text about the F1...
... Not becuase it's long... but beucase i know everything about race cars.

... not everything but alot.

TweetThe 2 cars I want to have one day... The Ariel Atom and the Honda NSX Type S... Both are so damn sexy, but the Atom is fast as balls.

The price is like 42,000 on a Atom and It reached 100mph in just 6.8 seconds. Overall time 0-100mph-0: 10.88 seconds. Totally Insane, check out the lap times in comparison to the other super cars.

The Atom has a 4-cyl honda type R engine in it. 2 Litres supercharged 300HP. it only weighs 1000 pounds.

TweetAlso, just for info, I think an F-1 Race car ran the track in 58 seconds

Tweetmclaren is nice and the lexus is off da hook

Tweet[QUOTE=brody13;770018]The 2 cars I want to have one day... The Ariel Atom and the Honda NSX Type S... Both are so damn sexy, but the Atom is fast as balls.

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i have the new issue of road and track it pits the atom against the porche gt3, ZO6 vette, noble, and a couple others. it bested their lap times by over 3 seconds and did 0-60 in 3 flat

the USA version dosnt have the honda k20 in it. it has the GM supercharged ecotec out of the cobalt ss. they say the motor. i would still rather have the honda any day

TweetHere's a pic of my Chevy Silverado. She's got a 5.3 V8 with Dual exhaust. She's pretty quick, but I'll be replacing her soon probably with a Volvo S60 R.