{"id":4493,"date":"2014-01-11T03:24:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T03:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sellanycar.com\/cars-related\/?p=4493"},"modified":"2014-01-22T21:22:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T21:22:51","slug":"mclaren-mp4-12c-arrives-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/18.202.220.25\/en\/guides\/mclaren-mp4-12c-arrives-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren MP4-12C arrives in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For footage that barely lasts a minute, you can see the launch control, the air-brake spoiler, the active suspension, the braking power and even the exhaust note, all shot during our road-test just outside Dubai. <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>General Facts about McLaren MP4-12C: <\/em><em><b><\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Design<\/h3>\n<p>In 2008, McLaren hired <a title=\"Frank Stephenson\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Stephenson\">Frank Stephenson<\/a> as design director for their reborn production car project.<\/p>\n<p>As with the <a title=\"McLaren F1\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/McLaren_F1\">McLaren F1<\/a>, <a title=\"Carbon fibre\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carbon_fibre\">carbon fibre<\/a> is used extensively in the vehicle to minimise weight. The MP4-12C weighs 1,301 kg (2,868 lb) dry.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Chassis\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chassis\">chassis<\/a> is based around a F1 style one-piece carbon fibre tub, called the Carbon MonoCell, weighing only 80 kg (176 lb). The MonoCell is made in a single pressing by using a set of patented processes, using Bi-Axial and Tri-Axial carbon fibre multiaxial fabrics produced by Formax UK Ltd. with the MonoCell manufactured by Carbo Tech in <a title=\"Salzburg\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salzburg\">Salzburg<\/a>, Austria. This has reduced the time required to produce a MonoCell from 3,000 hours for the F1 and 500 hours for the <a title=\"Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mercedes-Benz_SLR_McLaren\">Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren<\/a>, to 4 hours for the MP4-12C.<\/p>\n<p>The car has a conventional two side-by-side seating arrangement, unlike its predecessor the McLaren F1 which featured an irregular three seat formation (front centre, two behind either side). To make up for this however, the car&#8217;s central console is narrower than in other cars, seating the driver closer to the centre. Interior trim and materials can be specified in asymmetric configuration \u2013 known as &#8220;Driver Zone&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3>Engine<\/h3>\n<p>The car is powered by the <a title=\"McLaren M838T engine\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/McLaren_M838T_engine\">M838T<\/a> 3.8 litre twin-turbo V8 engine, designed and developed by McLaren in partnership with <a title=\"Ricardo plc\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ricardo_plc\">Ricardo<\/a>. The design of the engine was based on a racing engine which was designed and developed by <a title=\"Tom Walkinshaw Racing\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tom_Walkinshaw_Racing\">Tom Walkinshaw Racing<\/a> for the IRL Indy Car Championship but never raced. However, other than the 93 mm bore, little of that engine remains in the M838T. It produces 592 bhp (441 kW; 600 PS) and 443 lb\u00b7ft (601 N\u00b7m) of torque. It has a redline of 8,500 rpm, with 80% of torque available at just 2,000 rpm. When first announced, McLaren claimed that it would have a higher horsepower to <a title=\"Carbon dioxide\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carbon_dioxide\">carbon dioxide<\/a> emission ratio than any internal-combustion engine available at the time.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren announced a small number of improvements to become available in October 2012, with the option to be retrofitted to existing cars free of charge. The engine now produces 616 bhp (459 kW; 625 PS) and no change to the CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions which remain at 279 g\/km. This power output has also become standard on the 2013 model.<\/p>\n<p><em>To watch the video, check the following link out: <\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=8Bz1038NXlc\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=8Bz1038NXlc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information about car price Estimate, please visit<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uae.sellanycar.com\/Car-Price-Estimate.html\">http:\/\/uae.sellanycar.com\/Car-Price-Estimate.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For footage that barely lasts a minute, you can see the launch control, the air-brake spoiler, the active suspension, the braking power and even the exhaust note, all shot during our road-test just outside Dubai. \u00a0 General Facts about McLaren MP4-12C: Design In 2008, McLaren hired Frank Stephenson as design director for their reborn production &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/18.202.220.25\/en\/guides\/mclaren-mp4-12c-arrives-dubai\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McLaren MP4-12C arrives in Dubai<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":4834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["http:\/\/18.202.220.25\/en\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/McLaren-MP4-12c-2.jpg",728,413,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/18.202.220.25\/en\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/McLaren-MP4-12c-2-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/18.202.220.25\/en\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/McLaren-MP4-12c-2-300x170.jpg",300,170,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/18.202.220.25\/en\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/McLaren-MP4-12c-2.jpg",728,413,false],"large":["http:\/\/18.202.220.25\/en\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/McLaren-MP4-12c-2.jpg",728,413,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/18.202.220.25\/en\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/McLaren-MP4-12c-2.jpg",728,413,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/18.202.220.25\/en\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/McLaren-MP4-12c-2.jpg",728,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"SellAnyCar.com Team","author_link":"http:\/\/18.202.220.25\/en\/guides\/author\/saygin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"For footage that barely lasts a minute, you can see the launch control, the air-brake spoiler, the active suspension, the braking power and even the exhaust note, all shot during our road-test just outside Dubai. \u00a0 General Facts about McLaren MP4-12C: Design In 2008, McLaren hired Frank Stephenson as design director for their reborn production&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/18.202.220.25\/en\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/18.202.220.25\/en\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/18.202.220.25\/en\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/18.202.220.25\/en\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/18.202.220.25\/en\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/18.202.220.25\/en\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/18.202.220.25\/en\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/18.202.220.25\/en\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/18.202.220.25\/en\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/18.202.220.25\/en\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}