Mclaren F1′s successor, the P12 Supercar could bring KERS on board!

What do you do when you need to come up with a replacement for a car that put the hyper in the hypercar? You brings stuff straight from F1 to the road. The fable goes that the Mclaren F1 hypercar was born out of a chance meeting of three legends Gordon Murray, Ron Dennis and Peter Stevens at a Heathrow airport terminal. The rest, as they say was history as a hypercar good enough for almost a 400 Kph top whack emerged soon. Just over a hundred of the Mclaren F1 hypercars were built, endowing the car with a collectible status right from the word go. Production was ceased in 1998.

Mclaren P12 Hypercar Render

Over a decade later, the successor to this legendary machine will arrive sometime in 2013. The successor, which has been named the P12 is expected to feature a 800 Bhp engine in addition to the Kinetic Energy Regeneration System(KERS) technology, arriving straight from the racetracks of Formula1. The KERS technology involves a flywheel that stores energy to be transformed into usable power on demand. The energy stored by KERS will be delivered on demand for stuff like overtaking through a button that the driver will control, akin to something like a nitrous system.

The engine for the P12 is expected to be same 3.8-litre twin-turbo V8 unit, lifted from the MP4-12C supercar that Mclaren currently sells. The 2013 Mclaren P12 supercar is expected to be the a two seater version, unlike the three seats that the Mclaren F1 featured. An all carbon fiber monocoque is what will underpin the Mclaren P12 hypercar to keep weight to the barest minimum and all this carbon fiber will mean that the P12 will be priced at close to a million US dollars apiece. So, those are the preliminary details emerging about the Mclaren P12 hypercar. Watch this space for more in the coming days.

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