Britain's CAR magazine has just acquired spy photos of the upcoming McLaren MP4-12C Spyder styling prototype and managed to catch it topless and with the aluminum top up.
The photos show shockingly good access to the car and the fact that they get images of the top up and down indicate that they're supposed to be around. We would think McLaren employee, but we have to assume anyone working at McLaren makes enough money for a cellphone with a camera that doesn't suck this hard.
CAR also reports that the top is a three-piece aluminum and plastic unit developed in part by Lotus and that McLaren has made it so that even in the convertible the engine is visible (are you listening Ferrari?). The top is said to take only 17 seconds to deploy. No changes to the 3.8-liter 592-horsepower twin-turbo V8 are expected.
View more photos at CAR's website.
greenpony says:
12:29 PM, 01/26/12
I can't tell if that's the McLaren MP4-12C Spyder or a piece of sh!t hanging from a horse's @ss. Remember disposable cameras? Of course you do. Who doesn't. Well, this is ten times worse.
deanoflas says:
02:50 PM, 01/26/12
^^^ top up, top off
deanoflas says:
02:51 PM, 01/26/12
If noone else around here can appreciate your journalism I do Mr. Magrath, I take a stop at Straightline before hitting the rest of the carwebs