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Stephen Bayley,
28 June 2012 09:09
My first visit to McLaren was 1967, organised by a dutiful parent with industry connections. In those days the premises was an insanitary lock-up garage on a Weybridge trading estate. A boggle-eyed schoolboy, I was admiring the M6 Can-Am car. My boggling increased when, from out back, a cheery, chattery bloke emerged in grubby racing overalls, unpolished lace-ups, rubbing Swarfega ...
I was tasked with the job of picking up CAR's McLaren MP4-12C from Woking for the supercar showdown in the new July 2011 issue. Hardly one of life's chores. I'd been to the McLaren Technical Centre once before, but arriving at the Surrey gatehouse is still one of life's more memorable moments. There's a certain Willy Wonka in Woking quality ...
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Tim Pollard,
14 February 2011 12:18
We've just driven the new McLaren MP4-12C supercar - and we're putting our road tester up for a Q&A in the CAR forum today. This Friday 18 February, hang out with Chris Chilton in our chatrooms and grill him on the finer points of McLaren's new supercar from 1.00pm to 3.00pm GMT. Live McLaren web chat: Friday 18 February 2011 ...
