First Look: 2025 McLaren W1

[Donut Lord]

Originally Posted by chassis

Looks OK. Not a McLaren aesthetics fan in general.

What don't you like about McLarens? they look like Orange 458s and 488s with doors that go up

[carseatsm5]

All these hypercars look the same to me. Never been captivated by any of them.

Not to say the tech and performance aren’t amazing. I love that they exist and respect them, but just not my thing.

[Donut Lord]

Originally Posted by GuidoK

I think it looks nice.
I've never been a fan of the P1 / 650 style headlights/front and this is a big step away from that. Also a big step away from the 720/750
But my problem with McLaren styling is that there is absolutely no central design style there. Every few years the look of the cars totally change. It's all over the place.
To me it seems that they just can't get out of that 'beginners brand' phase that they are searching for a brand design style and brand naming.
TBH I think the MP4-12C is still designwise their best model, especially considering it's now a 13 year old design.

Besides the fact the MP4-12C was their worst model, pretty sure they just broke left and right, but putting a 12C next to any of these newer ones it feels 30 years old not just ~10ish.

[Alfisti]

The 720 looks great, goddamn space ship.

[chassis]

Originally Posted by Donut Lord

What don't you like about McLarens? they look like Orange 458s and 488s with doors that go up

Proportions aren’t great. Not a big fan of mid-engined Ferraris for the same reason, same as C8-no thanks. I like grand tourer long hood-short deck proportions. Ferrari FF and Lusso, latest Aston Vanquish. Exceptions in general are Lamborghini centro stile design and 911. Aston 2/4 proportions are great. Latest MB GT proportions are good. MB is rubbish quality- and reliability-wise so there’s that to deal with.

[TXSTYLE]

Tons of pics. It will definitely be sought after for those wealthy Exotic Car collectors!

https://www.autoblog.com/news/view-p...026-mclaren-w1

[Donut Lord]

Originally Posted by x622

Yeah I mistyped. My bad.


As for the guy complaining about the build quality, that's pretty cool I hear that from a lot of people who don't own them. Weird how I have no issues, and everyone I know with them doesn't have issues outside of the usual electrical gremlins from time to time like the windows needing to be reset.

Edit: Except when gintani gets to it and adds way too much timing that blows it up..

All good. I thought you meant to add a number to it for the next one. Thanks for clearing up.

I will say that the MP4-12C was probably one of the most buggiest supercars ever.

I have some unique access and I had 3x separate opportunities to drive one on track and all 3x times they went into electrical limp modes. One overheated and the computers were like no toe us to a dealer, the other 2x just went into electrical limp modes before going on track.

[x622]

Originally Posted by Donut Lord

All good. I thought you meant to add a number to it for the next one. Thanks for clearing up.

I will say that the MP4-12C was probably one of the most buggiest supercars ever.

I have some unique access and I had 3x separate opportunities to drive one on track and all 3x times they went into electrical limp modes. One overheated and the computers were like no toe us to a dealer, the other 2x just went into electrical limp modes before going on track.

Oh yeah the MP4 was fraught with issues to say the least. 720s other than the first MY are reliable less the accumulators which get replaced with the upgraded 765LT -> 750s accumulators. The current gen 4 liters are pretty reliable except on tunes that have too many pops and bangs which can pop out the plugs in the heads (which you just drill and tap). No other real issues other than like I said the lithium battery getting drained.