[TXSTYLE]

The British car maker is on a EPIC roll. First the well selling and highly acclaimed MP4-12C. Then the "other worldly" P1 Hypercar.
And now this new 650S which fits nicely in between!

Sometimes an automaker reveals a car, in full, and that's the whole story. But sometimes things get dragged out a bit. The McLaren 650S falls in the latter category, which strikes us as a bit odd considering that it's essentially a massaged version of the existing MP4-12C. No matter, the news here remains impressive all the same.

The British racing team turned supercar constructor first announced the arrival of the 650S two weeks ago. A few days later, the first images and video footage leaked out. McLaren quickly released initial details and official photos the next day, but withheld certain information – key details like pricing, and, you know... how fast it can actually go. We still haven't seen the thing in person – that will come next week when the car is unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show – but now McLaren has released official performance stats for its new supercar (along with a trio of new snapshots).

So just how quick is it? Well, for starters, it'll run the 0-62 mph sprint in three seconds flat and trip the quarter-mile lights in 10.5 seconds before topping out at 207 miles per hour. That's rather quick no matter how you slice it, but for context, McLaren points us to the car's 0-124 mph time, and how that compares to other cars it's made. At 8.4 seconds, it takes the 650S half a second less to reach that speed than the 12C upon which it's based – that means it's a full second quicker than the legendary McLaren F1. And that's no mean feat considering that, even twenty years later, McLaren's first road car is still the yardstick against which all other supercars are measured.

[BMW269]

MP4-12C looks better.

McLaren is really bad at marketing, I don't get what was wrong with the initial strategy (P11 - MP4-12C, P12 - P1 , P13 - unknown).

[TXSTYLE]

Not to me. Love the front facia much better on this!

[Sniz]

oh wow that's much better, love the color too and its a killer to boot

[socal135]

Originally Posted by Levi

MP4-12C looks better.

McLaren is really bad at marketing, I don't get what was wrong with the initial strategy (P11 - MP4-12C, P12 - P1 , P13 - unknown).

Doesn't matter, all of them will be sold.

[DieGrüneHölle]

Never liked the 12C styling. This looks great, a little bit of P1.

[TXSTYLE]

Originally Posted by socal135

Doesn't matter, all of them will be sold.

THIS.