McClaren City Car

I know this has been written about here before but the search feature wouldn't load and I don't recall any pictures...

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and some people think the smart is ugly

Where's the puke smiley?

Tommy Suddard wrote: Where's the puke smiley?

Don't you know someone who could hook us up with one?

I think the car cool. No, it's not pretty...

If they can hit the price point, I bet it'd be a hit. The Smart car is inferior in practically every way to a good econobox except for the compact footprint. This is inferior as well, but is cheap and sylish.

Personally, I'll hold out for the Hayabusa version

I would definitely rock this over a Smart.

I would kick it!

BTW, it is spelled McLaren. As in Bruce...

Ugly, but in a good way.

Very cool, and I like the center driving position. Cue the Photoshop with huge box flares and wide sticky tires.

looks like a Zonda had sex with a smart....

...only if it transforms into a fighting robot.

call me crazy, but I actually kinda like it. I wouldn't be caught dead in one for the same reason I wouldn't be caught dead in a smart car, I think they are useless little nerdmobiles that are inviting nothing but insanely huge medical bills for even the smallest of fender-benders, but it is rather interesting. if they could find some way to make the footprint a bit wider and lower the driving position a LOT (aka a baby formula car/OLD WSC/sports racer), I would jump all over it for a track car/city commuter. who knows, could be loads of fun and could be an untapped market that's just begging to be tapped. listening any small-ish car companies?

Why couldn't we have gotten this?

Smart Roadster, I luv you.

Darth Vader's Smart?

Is that a center exhaust...about 22 caliber?

Very cool car, has a space frame, canopy top, ultra light weight, low price...just two problems

1. It's ugly. Some different headlights would go a long way to fixing this.

2. It's too slow to even consider driving on the highway. A 1L engine or turbo should fix this.

It will, in all likelihood, never make it over here.

i like it. also needs m0ar 'Busa.

I don't think that's ugly at all. Bizarre, yes, but it looks pretty neat in a retro-distopia-futury way. Imagine it flying around L.A. a la Blade Runner or, well, early-'90s Tokyo.

Also, that flip-up canopy is wicked cool.

First off it's not a McLaren. Gordon Murray left McLaren after the SLR which he didn't like, this is his own company. This is so much more than a Smart car, it's smaller, get's way way better gas mileage. Also a big part of this car is meant to be the production concept and cradle to grave low environmental impact.

I like it, city box car stigmas be damned.

I also second the lamentation over our lack of a Smart Roadster. The wife and I rented one when we were in Germany a few years ago. I drove it from Frankfurt to the Nurburgring and had a blast. It still gets a little squirrelly at "some people's" autobahn speeds (hehe), but it was a hoot to hoon around the mountain roads. The limits weren't all that high really, but that's not really what that car's about anyway. What surprised me was the reaction from the German populace, especially the older generation. They were very curious, and almost always loved it.

there's a ton of the roadsters driven by the bad guys in Tom Cruise' new movie.

Slyp_Dawg wrote: I wouldn't be caught dead in one for the same reason I wouldn't be caught dead in a smart car, I think they are useless little nerdmobiles that are inviting nothing but insanely huge medical bills for even the smallest of fender-benders,

This is so not true it's not even funny, and I wish supposedly knowledgeable car guys would quite repeating it as though it WERE true.

In fact it's been proven not true repeatedly over the last few years.

Jay wrote: I don't think that's ugly at all. Bizarre, yes, but it looks pretty neat in a retro-distopia-futury way. Imagine it flying around L.A. a la Blade Runner or, well, early-'90s Tokyo. Also, that flip-up canopy is wicked cool.

While I like it, the flip up canopy is the part I think is stupid in a supposedly daily use vehicle. Surprised that it would be dreamed up in rainy 'ol England (of course, they invented convertible tops that invited the rain in, as well). With my normal car, the dash, center console, etc, doesn't get drenched in the rain from simply opening the door...

^ Esp considering that the big part of the car is the safety cell. Have you seen how F1 drivers do in wrecks? I would have no worries about that car.