2010 McLaren F1 upgrade package

[hurstg01]

Originally Posted by d34dp4n

Definitely a hoax. Too many typo's to have come from Mclaren... 20st of June, hmmmmm.

Very elaborate and interesting but a white elephant none the less.

efa

[Le Man]

Lies, lies, all lies,

Hold on, it could be real if it come from McLaren

Joking apart, the person who wrote that needs to a) go back to school and learn how to spell and b) go to college and learn about automotive engineering, as the stats do not add up !!

[Sami Aaltonen]

So the McLaren fights back for the new commers on the ultimate supercar markets! Great news!

[dbsf1]

Originally Posted by Sami Aaltonen

So the McLaren fights back for the new commers on the ultimate supercar markets! Great news!

Sami: It's not true. It's a hoax. McLaren are not really doing this (we don't believe). It appears to be a complete fake. Sadly.

[Sami Aaltonen]

Originally Posted by dbsf1

Sami: It's not true. It's a hoax. McLaren are not really doing this (we don't believe). It appears to be a complete fake. Sadly.

OK. Oh no.
Now I read more closely these stories this Thread, sorry about misunderstanding.

[webslinger283]

although this release may be a fake (hoping deep down it isn't) but if you think about it...this is the perfect time to make such an announcment. It will show future Mclaren P11, P12, P13 buyers realize that just because there car is not longer being built, Mclaren will still strive to make it all that it can be. It kinda makes sense in that respect do to somthing along these lines! What do you guys think?

[wilsonc]

"RL: Of course we have asked our client base before deciding on this upgrade package and we feel confident the vast majority of them will opt for the upgrade."

So if it actually is true then fselldorff, or any other McLaren owner, would know about it. If you're reading this fselldorff, is it real?

[Peloton25]

Not sure how quickly we can expect a response to your question from Mr Selldorff, but several of the non-owner participants of this forum have various contacts in the McLaren world, from owners to factory workers, who would have likely provided us with some advance notice on something like this if it were real.

I have yet to ask anyone who I know would be "in the know" on this one. I happen to think we've poked enough holes in the story already where doing so would be a waste of time. Perhaps Greg or Chris have a different take on it.

>8^)
ER

[Private1]

someone spend a lot of time doing that document WHY

[dbsf1]

Originally Posted by Private1

someone spend a lot of time doing that document WHY

someone must have been pretty bored and had quite a bit of time on their hands

[PRS29]

Something McLaren definitely would not mistake is the bhp/ton figure. If the car had 691bhp, and weighed 1077kg, then it would be about 641.6bhp/ton.

[Peloton25]

Originally Posted by Private1

someone spend a lot of time doing that document WHY

My vote goes to personal entertainment. Put something like this out there, then sit back to watch it get picked up by the major daily auto news outlets like Autoblog or Jalopnik, and then spread like wild fire across the span of automotive message forums around the web.

FerrariChat has a thread on this topic already. Surely there are more out there now I haven't seen.

In fact, if the creator had spent just a little more time on it and caught some of their own errors prior to publishing it, then this little document would have surely sparked quite a bit of debate and friendly banter before it was proven to be false. All the while its creator would be sitting back and smiling, I would imagine.

>8^)
ER

[fselldorff]

I have heard nothing about this.

[dbsf1]

Originally Posted by fselldorff

I have heard nothing about this.

Thankyou for taking the time to comment on this matter!

[Peloton25]

Another thread on this:

http://www.theautounion.net/index.ph...64700#msg64700

Luckily it seems that most of the people there were able to see right through it.

>8^)
ER