BMW McLaren Supercar

[Tapsa70]

BMW and McLaren are planning a supercar together:

BMW is developing a mid-engined supercar with a V8 engine – and is in talks with McLaren to put the car into production. The top secret flagship is scheduled for a Frankfurt show unveiling in exactly two years’ time, if talks with Britain’s supercar specialists are successfully concluded.

Munich has been toying with a high-octane yin to the i8 hybrid’s yang for a few years. But with 2015 bringing a new chairman, Harald Krüger, and a new boss at M Division, Frank van Meel, the idea of a BMW supercar once again has real momentum at the very top.

Another new boy, r&d chief Klaus Fröhlich, started exploratory talks with McLaren back in January. An alliance makes perfect sense. BMW – still digesting the telephone numbers investment it took to bring the i3 and i8 to market – is understandably keen to seek a top-notch supercar partner with whom to share development, rather than give M Division carte blanche on costs and strategy...

http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/spy-shots/bmw/sensation-mclaren-to-build-bmw-supercar/

 

[m-power]

"When BMW and McLaren get together, magic happens."

Oh my God... If this turns out to be true, then it's simply the best news I've heard this century...

Scott... Any input??

 

[Giannis]

Too many ifs and buts in that article.

I'll believe it when I see it. Just like the outcome of the BMW/ Toyota sportscar.

 

[SKY]

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

 

[SCOTT27]

"When BMW and McLaren get together, magic happens."

Oh my God... If this turns out to be true, then it's simply the best news I've heard this century...

Scott... Any input??

I can neither Confirm nor Deny....

 

[Deleted member 25]

I don't know why but this article is flashing with Las Vegas red BS sign.

 

[SKY]

It is Kacher the one signing the article. It might end up not happening, we have had so many deceptions with BMW board. But I am pretty certain it is being discussed right and the project exists. I hope M division keeps pressing and this new CEO has a pair and greenlights it.

Just look at this marvel:

 

[klier]

Yay, new McLaren F1. The most legendary hypercar of all time. Bring it on PLEASE!!!!!

Those renders look amazing, Sky. A bit too much i8 maybe, though.

 

[Mr Robert]

I was not being ironic with that feedback, @SCOTT27

 

[SKY]

Just the reports about the engine are amazing on their own. An entirely new V8, downsized to 4 liters and with 750 PS. And that just on standard tunning, there could be more hardcore variants, according to the article.

This engine with some hybrid tech could reach LaFerrari levels of power.

 

[Beemer B773ER]

Let @Merc1 be the judge of what is BS. [HASHTAG]#expert[/HASHTAG]

 

[Monster]

I call BS too, there is no way Honda is going to let this happen, I can't imagine how Mclaren Honda is burning up $$ literally while the road car division decides to collaborate with BMW?

 

[SCOTT27]

When BMW does a collaboration it is with someone who offers not just the best potential but also on resources that are on a par with our own.
Which is why such collaborations and their pool of resources be it material, drivetrain and technology can be implemented in a very cost effective but also expansive way...

 

[aleks_16]

Isn't it MLaren's decision which engine they want and a Deal like this would go evem further

 

[Centurion]

Mclaren and BMW as two companies at different ends of the spectrum but are heading towards the same equilibrium. Mclaren are going down market while BMW are making significant investments in carbon fiber reinforced plastic.

I can't see any of the parties would need the other to be successful. The only reason why Mclaren would seek to work with BMW would be on engine development, but Honda is first in line if Mclaren makes a call for a new engine.

 

[Wunderkind]

Talk about promiscuity............

So glad McLaren and Mercedes parted company.

 

[SCOTT27]

Talk about promiscuity............

So glad McLaren and Mercedes parted company.

One of the industry rumours at Frankfurt was the Fiat Chrysler FCA/GM merger and also further rumours that they were talking to Daimler also...
[HASHTAG]#Rightbackwheretheystartedfrom[/HASHTAG].

 

[Wunderkind]

One of the industry rumours at Frankfurt was the Fiat Chrysler FCA/GM merger and also further rumours that they were talking to Daimler also...
[HASHTAG]#Rightbackwheretheystartedfrom[/HASHTAG].

Thanks for the news Scott, but I don't think there is much in it. Marchionne is / has been talking to anybody willing to listen. Yes, Mercedes can definitely do with another partner in the small cars segment besides Renault and there might be economies of scale gains at the existing and planned Mercedes plants in the US that could be explored. Marchionne needs hybrid and battery tech badly but has no money to develop it by himself. Daimler might be interested in some sort of supply/production and cost sharing arrangement but I doubt Zetsche would be interested in any cross-shareholding deal after the break-up of the near-fatal DaimlerChrysler combination less than a decade ago.

Where does GM come in in all this, Scott? Besides getting access to Daimler's hybrid and battery (clean) tech, the only thing I can think of is that a well-managed Daimler/FCA/GM alliance can overtake VAG in China.

 

[wL0316]

BMW McLaren Supervaporware
Hope I am wrong...

 

[Yaz]

Hmm, a BMW engine in a McLaren supercar. Where have I heard that before?

BMW needs this more than McLaren.