McLaren P1

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SectorOne wrote:
Andres125sx wrote:And.... :?:

You both were stating Lambo does not do mental cars anymore since Audi bought it, and you said even before Audi they only produced one mental car, the Countach, so you actually don´t consider Lamborghini as a manufacturer that design mental cars, no matter what era we talk about
No i wasn´t, i responded to the claim that Lamborghini´s somehow should look mental when in fact, the majority of the cars are the exact opposite.

Bar one car, the Countach. So this whole mental thing came when Audi got into the picture.

The Veneno, the SUV, the Egoista, Sesto Elemento etc.
If you look through history the cars are far from mental, it´s only after Audi came in where the batsh*t crazy took over completely.

Thankfully the normal cars still have some decency left in them.
Personally I think many old lambos are "Mental" for their time - Miura, Countach, and Diablo.
Which then stopped for a while after Audi got a hold of them, and now it seems reserved for the extremely low volume cars.

(And I cant bring myself to call an SUV Mental.... its just not! :o )

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Yea this one doesn´t look mental one bit, it should be called "Lamborghini IN YOUR FACE"
or "look at me i´m angry, roar!"

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I don´t see the mental part in the Miura, it´s a very nice, sleak design and can´t be put in the same bracket as Veneno or Countach.

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Apparently this below is really Lamborghini,

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This whole mental designs is a new thing bar one car.
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ergenomic
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Very good but irrelevant considering the topic of the thread

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SectorOne wrote:Yea this one doesn´t look mental one bit, it should be called "Lamborghini IN YOUR FACE"
or "look at me i´m angry, roar!"
I know you're being facetious, but I do say it isn't very mental. it's a VW SUV with some aggressive lines. meh.
SectorOne wrote:I don´t see the mental part in the Miura, it´s a very nice, sleak design and can´t be put in the same bracket as Veneno or Countach.
Maybe not by today's standards, but when viewed within the context of its time, it surely was pretty insane.


SectorOne wrote:Apparently this below is really Lamborghini,

http://www.topgear.com/uk/assets/cms/9b ... 0516_05:33
http://images.thecarconnection.com/lrg/ ... 0931_l.jpg
http://www.lambocars.com/images/prototypes/sesto39.jpg

This whole mental designs is a new thing bar one car.
yes, I'd say so. Pushing boundaries, trying new things. Lambos hardly stand out at all anymore next to Ferrari, McLaren, Koeniggsegg, and other super/hyper car manufacturers.

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acosmichippo wrote:Pushing boundaries, trying new things.
Like re-inventing the ruler?
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ollandos wrote:drag race

vs 918 vs ducati

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfLqa4vlmFI
215 HP in a car feels like a lot, imagine that in a road bike that weights 152 kg. Even Ariel Atom V8 would struggle against Panigale superleggera on the track. Also Ducati sounds so much better in real life, it's really loud.

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Felipe 92 wrote:
ollandos wrote:drag race

vs 918 vs ducati

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfLqa4vlmFI
215 HP in a car feels like a lot, imagine that in a road bike that weights 152 kg. Even Ariel Atom V8 would struggle against Panigale superleggera on the track. Also Ducati sounds so much better in real life, it's really loud.

very good times for ducati.......i think the bike and p1 can do better starts ....with expert drivers on this models....
for 918 is to easy a good start with 4wd and LC....
the result o that race look logical....
p1 the winner on 1 mile ...

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Would have been nice if they did some laptimes,
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There's a vid on youtube of a Mercedes W03 drag racing against a McLaren 650S. At the end, the acceleration figures of the W03 F1 car are quoted. What's amazing is that the P1 is only 2 seconds slower to 186mph than the Formula1 car is and only about a second slower to 124mph. Sure, the F1 car was on wets etc. but even so...the performance of modern road-going supercars is frankly phenomenal!
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Mclaren isn't even in Race Mode I think: Higher ride height and the rear spoiler raised a bit. In race mode, the car would be lowered a lot and the spoiler would stand out. Bloody obvious why it's not in Race Mode: The spoiler would simply cause too much drag and hamper the P1's straight line speed in this drag race.

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I need to figure out how to get some more digits on my bank account...
If i was rich this is what i would be doing every single day.
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SectorOne wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSpKYDNkAsk

I need to figure out how to get some more digits on my bank account...
If i was rich this is what i would be doing every single day.
Seems a bit wanky and ultimately less fun getting a really fast Caterham or Atom. If you want to go really fast on a track and have all the money in the world, then getting the Monash/Stuttgart/whoever F-SAE team to build you one their cars with a super bike engine would be the way to go.

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http://thesupercarkids.com/mclaren-p1-s ... o-circuit/

So there is a McLaren P1 lapping in the Ferrari's track.

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These are some images of the P1 GTR from TopGear. Here is the article http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/mcla ... 2014-10-22

The interior
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Some exterior shots
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And if you haven't seen it yet here is Jay Leno collecting his bright yellow P1 a few months back.
http://youtu.be/wqOLMtZufsI?list=PLcAFC ... cPIMBritXr

Oh! and I know this isnt the P1 but its an hour long documentary on Mclaren and the 12c from a few years ago, before Hamilton ran away. Quite interesting if you have the time.http://youtu.be/R8vgTBYOzc4