{"id":443025,"date":"2010-03-18T12:37:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T16:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=53253"},"modified":"2010-03-18T12:37:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T16:37:06","slug":"mclaren-outlines-plan-to-become-competitive-player-in-sports-car-segment-officially-unveils-mp4-12c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/443025","title":{"rendered":"McLaren outlines plan to become competitive player in sports car segment, officially unveils MP4-12C"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today at the McLaren Technology Center, Chairman Ron Dennis and Managing Director Antony Sheriff confirmed that McLaren Automotive will produce a range of highly-efficient and high-performance sports cars. The first in this range of sports cars is the light-weight, two-seater sports car called the McLaren MP4-12C.<\/p>\n

McLaren said that the MP4-12C will be produced at the new \u00a340 million ($61 million USD) McLaren Production Centre, creating up to 300 new jobs at the company.<\/p>\n

McLaren said it plans to deliver up to 1,000 units of the MP4-12C in 2011 through global networks of McLaren retailers in major markets including North America, Europe, Middle-East, South Africa, and Asia-Pacific. “Over 500 retailers have applied for an initial 35 franchises in 19 countries that will be confirmed by summer 2010,” McLaren said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Mclaren is aiming for the market segment of sports cars priced between $190,000 and $270,000.<\/p>\n

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Chairman Ron Dennis laid out an ambitious plan for McLaren to become a strong competitor in the high-performance segment and said that by the middle of the decade, McLaren wants to build up to 4,000 units annually.<\/p>\n

We have long held the dream of building a range of McLaren high-performance sports cars that take the raw elements of Formula 1 principles, processes and performance and forge them into a unique package; one that offers customer-focused requirements of quality, efficiency, comfort and reliability,” Dennis said. \u201cToday\u2019s announcements confirm our intention to challenge convention at the highest levels of automotive design, from a new high-tech home that I am proud to say will deliver jobs, expertise and innovation in manufacturing and engineering.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can watch the hour-long press conference on McLaren’s website<\/strong><\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Click here to read more news on the McLaren MP4-12C<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Click through for the high-res image gallery<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Refresher<\/strong>:\u00a0Power for the 2011 McLaren MP4-12C comes from a 3.8L V8 twin-turbo engine producing around 600-hp mated to a 7-speed Seamless Shift dual-clutch gearbox (SSG). 0 to 60 mph is expected to come in the low 3 second range with a top speed of more than 200 mph. Sales begin in early 2011.<\/p>\n

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Today at the McLaren Technology Center, Chairman Ron Dennis and Managing Director Antony Sheriff confirmed that McLaren Automotive will produce a range of highly-efficient and high-performance sports cars. The first in this range of sports cars is the light-weight, two-seater sports car called the McLaren MP4-12C. McLaren said that the MP4-12C will be produced at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}