McLaren's new sports car revealed

McLaren has unveiled its new super sports car, designed using Formula 1 technology.

The 600hp vehicle has been created to be as environmentally friendly as possible, with the lowest carbon output per hp of any car currently on the market.

This is a new venture into the super car market, and the company is building a new production line at its centre in Surrey to turn out up to 4,000 of them a year.

The BBC's Richard Scott has been given an exclusive first look at the car.

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[Janusha]

It wont be faster than the original Mclaren F1. To be faster than that it would have to be a full on racecar and thats not what they want to make. They want to make a sportscar that people can use.

[foodmore]

i think what he meant was f1-style paddle shift (which as we know, isn't really restricted to f1 cars these days)

[akaHunterTR]

lol, u can see a camera man reflected in the glass

[astralslide579]

@srspower You can get a Porsche 911 Turbo S starting a 160K (US dollars)

[srspower]

@deejayzak

Exactly, so the point is if you don't have the cash to buy a new or newish supercar then you certainly don't have the cash to run an old one.

[deejayzak]

@srspower Read somewhere it was $5k for brake pads for an Enzo, probably $3500 for a more mainstream ferrari

[srspower]

@bockydo

Unfortunatley it doesn't work like that with lambos etc. Sure you can buy a lambo in reasonbly good nick and looked after for 50K but can you afford to own it?

As in can you afford:-

tyres

oil changes

spark plugs

etc etc

All those sorts of things are INSANELY expensive on a lambo or ferrari.

[srspower]

150K for a 600bhp supercar is actually pretty good value. In fact i don't think i can think of ANY 600bhp+ supercar you can get for 150K.

[Andriuxx]

video quality sucks!

[passingbynight]

Preeeetty....

[bockydo]

Ill find one on ebay one day for cheaper :) . you can get a fairly new lambo for like around 50 k now .

[bcoakley00]

@Cybergig00 150,000 pounds is about $236,000 U.S. dollars