McLaren: The Road Cars, 2010–2024
Autor Kyle Fortune Cuvânt înainte de Jay Lenoen Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 mar 2024
Foreword by Jay Leno
When the McLaren Formula 1 team set up McLaren Cars and launched the revolutionary, iconic F1 road car in 1992, it turned the supercar world upside down. McLaren wouldn’t make another road car itself until it formed McLaren Automotive in 2010. It was set up with the vision not just to rival the established companies in the sports and supercar marketplace, but to disrupt and to constantly innovate in its pursuit of performance. In this expansive 320-page volume, renowned automotive journalist Kyle Fortune compiles nearly 500 images along with countless interviews and expert insight to showcase all of McLaren's supercars to date. Highlights for readers include:
• How upstart company McLaren Automotive applied Formula 1 engineering expertise, innovation, and radical thinking to create cars that quickly became benchmarks for performance, ride, and handling against long-established supercar manufacturers such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Porsche.
• Unparalleled insight from the designers, engineers, aerodynamicists, and test drivers who create McLaren Automotive’s cars, with modern, independent insight from test drives by automotive journalists and the author
• Detailed technical insight, background stories, and data to the creation, development, and manufacture of all of McLaren Automotive’s sensational cars, with the text supported by comprehensive data tables and illustrated by images from a team of world-renowned automotive photographers This book contains incredible insight and detail from access to McLaren’s press archives, as well as interviews with countless key people within the company. The first and only book dedicated entirely to McLaren’s incredible road cars, this is the complete history of a fascinating automotive brand that’s challenged the establishment.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780764367311
ISBN-10: 0764367315
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 250+ color photographs
Dimensiuni: 229 x 305 x 32 mm
Greutate: 2.02 kg
Editura: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Colecția Schiffer
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0764367315
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 250+ color photographs
Dimensiuni: 229 x 305 x 32 mm
Greutate: 2.02 kg
Editura: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Colecția Schiffer
Locul publicării:United States
Recenzii
Being a part of the start of McLaren Automotive was something really unique. The subsequent chapter in British sports car history flew by at a million miles an hour. We were busy! This is an amazingly detailed read that helped me re-live the technical journey and took me back to “my” period from 12C to Senna. Great times and great cars . . .
Is there anything better than finding the exact thing you didn’t know you needed? That’s “McLaren: The Road Cars.” This will sound odd, but I skipped right over all the F1 and Mercedes SLR stuff—I could write up 2,000 words on the former from memory. No, I had to get to the chapter on the birth of the MP4-12C, an itch I’ve needed scratched for more than ten years now. How and why did McLaren cook up and serve what history will surely judge as the most important supercar from the first quarter of this century? Furthermore, how did that gutsy yet flawed moonshot lead, only a few years later, to the McLaren 720S, a machine I consider to be the true successor to the Lamborghini Countach? In other words, how did little McLaren reinvent the supercar? The answers to those questions, and everything else about every other McLaren road car, are all here.
…written by an individual who was present throughout the development journey…the amount of new information [the author] provides is quite impressive…a highly recommended read for any McLaren owner and enthusiast.
It's a chunky book and uses its length to go into detail about not only McLaren's core range, but also to cover every special edition and one-off they've done since 2010 in detail. It's definitely a comprehensive tome, and bang up to date, ending with the Artura and 750S.
…a warm and considered tribute to a company of furious dynamism…chronicles the evolution of the modern supercar from a unique perspective. It’s well with a look.
Is there anything better than finding the exact thing you didn’t know you needed? That’s “McLaren: The Road Cars.” This will sound odd, but I skipped right over all the F1 and Mercedes SLR stuff—I could write up 2,000 words on the former from memory. No, I had to get to the chapter on the birth of the MP4-12C, an itch I’ve needed scratched for more than ten years now. How and why did McLaren cook up and serve what history will surely judge as the most important supercar from the first quarter of this century? Furthermore, how did that gutsy yet flawed moonshot lead, only a few years later, to the McLaren 720S, a machine I consider to be the true successor to the Lamborghini Countach? In other words, how did little McLaren reinvent the supercar? The answers to those questions, and everything else about every other McLaren road car, are all here.
…written by an individual who was present throughout the development journey…the amount of new information [the author] provides is quite impressive…a highly recommended read for any McLaren owner and enthusiast.
It's a chunky book and uses its length to go into detail about not only McLaren's core range, but also to cover every special edition and one-off they've done since 2010 in detail. It's definitely a comprehensive tome, and bang up to date, ending with the Artura and 750S.
…a warm and considered tribute to a company of furious dynamism…chronicles the evolution of the modern supercar from a unique perspective. It’s well with a look.
Comentariile autorului
- The only book on McLaren Automotive (there are several books on McLaren F1, which was produced by the preceding McLaren Cars).
- McLaren clubs: McLaren Owners Car Club of America (local chapters around the US); McLaren Owners Car Club North West (based in the UK, charitable works); McLaren Car Club (international with local chapters); McLaren Club of Canada; McLaren Tech Club (sponsored by McLaren, conversations with McLaren engineers and designers)
- Sports car and supercar clubs which include McLaren: Sports Car Club of America (huge organization with local chapters around the US); International Conference of Sports Car Clubs; Classic Sports Car Club (UK); United British Sports Car Club; The Supercar Club (international); MKNN Supercar Club (UK)
- Recent and existing museum exhibits: Brooklands Museum, "McLaren: Driven by Design"; Petersen Automotive Museum, "The Color of Success: McLaren's Papaya Livery"
- The Bruce McLaren Trust Museum, Hampton Downs, Auckland, NZ (focuses on the life of Bruce McLaren)