Thread: The MP4-12C Spider..

Had a look and couldnt see it posted anywhere yet.. Heres official pictures taken from PistonHeads.com









Like Ferrari with the 458 Spider, McLaren has equipped its junior cabriolet with a folding hard-top roof. For the MP4 12C, McLaren has devised the Retractable Hard Top (RHT) which takes 17 seconds to raise or lower and can be operated at speeds of up to 19mph.

The Spider also incorporates all of the revisions that were recently added to the MP4 12C Coupe so boasts 625hp from its 3.8-litre twin-turbo V8 and further revisions to improve the responsiveness of its seven-speed SSG transmission. As well as this, the Spider weighs only 40kg more than the fixed-roof car (putting its kerb weight at just under 1,500kg) as the carbon fibre MonoCell that underpins both cars requires no strengthening to allow for the missing roof.

Conversion to cabrio adds only 40kgThe benefit of this minimal weight increase is that the MP4 12C Spider will sprint from 0-62mph as quickly as the Coupe (3.1 seconds) while losing only two tenths to 100mph (9 seconds plays 8.8). Top speed is 204mph, against 207mph for the Coupe. Ratings for fuel consumption and emissions remains unchanged at 24.2mpg and 279g/km respectively, just in case one pops up on your company car list…

According to McLaren, the MP4 12C Spider provides a ‘unique combination of spectacular performance with remarkable usability’ and that losing the roof ‘undoubtedly enhances an already euphoric 12C driving experience’. Customers will have to wait until November to find out for themselves, and pay £195,500 for the privilege. This is £19,500 up on the revised coupe’s list price of £176,000 but still fractionally cheaper than the roadster’s likely nemesis, the 458 Spider, which costs £198,906.

PistonHeads Headlines - McLaren MP4 12C Spider unveiled

McLaren has already added the configurator of the 12C Spider on their main website:

The Official McLaren Automotive website - McLaren Automotive.com

About this car I like the fact that they tried something different from the 458 Spider: the roof is a two-pieces hard top so the concept is the same but the way it folds down is different, the engine is still visible...Can't wait to see it on the road!

I love that the new exotics are adapting the hard-top roof. they look so much better.

Looks good. But a total copy of the 458 Spider roof construction / design

Originally Posted by DOMANI

Looks good. But a total copy of the 458 Spider roof construction / design

Come on man how can you say that?ok the roof is divided in two pieces like the 458 Spider but from that point on it's quite different!

It may be similar to the 458 but it is 100% more sexy!

Important to note that the roof on both cars was developed in conjunction with the same supplier - Webasto. That there are some similarities should not be shocking to anyone. With the architecture of a mid-engined car there are only going to be so many ways to make a retractable hard top work with one.

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I'm liking this a lot more than the coupe, but this car really cements that the 458 is much better looking than the MP4.

I found these:
2013 McLaren 12C Spider rear track Photo on July 3, 2012 #226749 from WOT on Motor Trend

Video about McLaren MP4-12C Spider: