"The Sassy Lassie with the Classy Chassis," that was how Elvira, mistress of the dark, described herself. But, it's also how we'd describe this lady!
WorldSupercarcars filmed one sexy girl arriving in her white McLaren MP4-12C in Monaco. As she gets out of the car with grace, we notice this isn't her first day in the British supercar. Even though the plates are French, our protagonist's demeanor just screams "Russia", from the way she struts on high-heel pumps and the casual red overalls.
Either way, McLaren is finding more and more female customers, something we'd never have seen back in the day of the F1.
We'd give a shiny new penny to know what the valet or the tens of bystanders are thinking when they see the 20-something behind the wheel of a 600 hp car with butterfly doors.
You may accuse us of being a little jealous, but you should know we are talking about some great piece of engineering here. Not that we’re saying you don’t know, but just spelling all these specs and figures is music to our ears.
We’re talking about a carbon fiber composite chassis, and a mid-mounted 3.8-liter V8, twin-turbo engine developing 600 horsepower at a blink of an eye. A 20-year-old beauty probably has little to none knowledge of all the great Formula 1-sourced technologies such as “brake steer”, where the inside rear wheel is braked during fast cornering to reduce understeer.
And we haven’t even started discussing the Carbon MonoCell construction. The one-piece carbon fiber chassis is made in a single pressing by using a set of patented processes. It’s all top-notch engineering, and it should be handled as wise. Did we mentioned we're looking at one of the greatest supercars currently on the market that lapped the Nürburgring in 7 minutes and 28 seconds?
Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida. Full profile
Would you like AUTOEVOLUTION to send you notifications?
Google News