BMW and McLaren in talks to build BMW Supercar

[romo]

► BMW and McLaren in talks
► Last callaboration was McLaren F1
► Mid-engined V8, 750bhp plan




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2018 BMW 100 jarig bestaan, dit wordt het cadeautje?

[E60 M5]

Gaaf!!!

Twee weken geleden overgestapt van BMW naar Mercedes maar zoiets trekt mij wel weer terug naar BMW.

Ben benieuwd

[Bram]

Zou een keer tijd worden dat ze met een gewaagd product komen, de i8 is een forse stap in de goede richting. Klinkt goed dit, ben benieuwd

[Snipe]

2018 BMW 100 jarig bestaan, dit wordt het cadeautje?

Dan moeten ze iets harder doorwerken, want dat 100-jarig bestaan is in 2016.

[Robin]

Dan komt die auto voor het BP Ultimate 102 jarig bestaan van BMW Perry:)

Maar inderdaad dit was nodig bij BMW(mocht dit doorgaan) een echt dikke supercar met weer de samenwerking met McLaren. Wat we daar dik 20 jaar geleden van zagen, de mooiste samenwerking ooit in straatautoland ever. Of ze dat huzarenstukje ooit zullen herhalen of overtreffen? In deze electrische tijden weet ik 't niet.




ooit=ever

[romo]

Een vergipsing mijnerzijds idd in deze hectische/elektrische tijden BMW AG in 1918 ,maar idd 1916 naam BMW vastgelegd..

Hoop en verwacht dat er wat moois uit komt, Noblesse Oblige toch?

[tomgtr]

Groupbuy dan maar?

[Roy RS]

in talks...is dat een heuse uitspraak, zoals wij "in gesprek" zeggen? Nog nooit gehoord...

[WJ]

Yep

[Robin Hartog]

Als hij er zo uit komt te zien; gaaf!

[GTRene]

ziet er idd sportief uit, beetje moderne M1 en bij eerste blik dacht ik Mclaren, afijn MclarenF1 of M1, whats in a name.

[romo]

End of story?

In answer to motoring.com.au’s enquiries, M boss Frank van Meel said the concept was pure fantasy and that there had been no contact with McLaren from anybody at either BMW or M.

“I haven’t had a phone call, Harald Krüger [BMW’s CEO] hasn’t had a phone call and Klaus Fröhlich [BMW’s Research and Development director] hasn’t had a phone call,” he said.

All three men were cited in the original story published by UK magazine, CAR.

“We haven’t made one, either, and we don’t have plans to,” van Meel stated.

The report suggested a prototype would be shown at the Frankfurt motor show in 2017, running on a development of McLaren’s ubiquitous carbon-fibre T16 tub and using a 4.0-litre biturbo V8, before being built in late 2018.

“We admire McLaren and we have obviously worked with them in the past, but there is nothing on the agenda,” van Meel insisted.

“The halo car of the entire BMW brand is the i8 and a lot of money and engineering has been invested in it. It will remain the only halo for its lifecycle.

“It would make no sense for us to put a car above the i8, or even priced near it, that would have the same sort of layout but more power.”

That hasn’t stopped plenty of people hoping for a V8 conversion for the i8’s carbon-fibre tub, replacing the inline three-cylinder motor. But that motor is mounted laterally, and reworking the architecture to accept a longitudinal V8 would demand a lot more than just losing the back seats.

“I don’t understand why we would need to work with McLaren for a supercar anyway,” he said.

“All of the technologies the story suggested are technologies that are core competences here at BMW and at M.

“Nobody in the world is more advanced with carbon-fibre than we are."

We have shown how strong we are with electric boosting for performance and efficiency, plus we still have a great V8 engine here. What would we need McLaren to do for us?” van Meel stated.

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[Xave30]

Oh well...