My professor Scott Abel (the nemesis responsible for nearly every blog
that starts in BFM) sent me the link to the post. I thought I'd send
him a thank you E-mail, but it came out too long, so I thought I'd post
it as well.
Hey, that's almost as good a race car as this: http://estcar.blogspot.com/2008/05/true-rally-car.html
Well, just kidding. The original McLarenF1 has been a wet dream for every petrolhead I suppose.
I'd
like to point out tho, that this guy got one thing very very wrong. He
said that it's surprising McLaren used power by BMW instead of they
usual supplier, Mercedes. The car started in 1992.
Here are McLaren's engine suppliers throughout 1992-1995:
1992: Honda
1993: Ford
1994: Lamborghini (indeed, a V12, but chrysler was producing those at the time, so they were quite sluggish), later Peugeot
1995: Mercedes
So
thank god, they took a BMW engine, otherwise you'd have a Honda-powered
MC (good at 0-60, able to rev up to a millio rpm, yet slow as hell on
higher speeds), a Ford or Chrysler/Lambo produced MC (a powerful engine
capable of exhausting Saudi-Arabia with just a trip to the shop), or a
Mercedes engine from the early to mid 1990s(there is a reason why 190E
was the best they had to offer, and I'm not talking about the purple
body)
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