Official or Not? McLaren F2 Renderings Surface

I hope that isn't the next Mclaren, it looks more like an early 90's Lotus Espirit replacement

Looks more like a vector than a mclaren

PLs don't tell me that after R8 no one can design a good looking sports car. Do we have to wait for Audi again to set an icon?

Oh man, I have to say that I am disappointed in this design. :( What happened McLaren? I hope this is just a very rough draft to kick off the design process.

Those pics are about year old and came out of european design patent database, so it's offical Daimler.

I am not sure what that last post means, as it is my belief this is a McLaren project rather than a DB one. But I recall Car magazine getting a look at a styling buck some months ago and a lot of what they describe will feature on the P11 is shown with this image. I don't believe there will be an F1 successor, just a F430/Gallardo rival.

nono... its fine... its just shouldnt be called the "mclaren F1 successor" lol.. plain and simple. it might be the ultimate driving machine in the end, but design wise, it will never me the mclaren F1. and all the above about the lotus esprit and the vector... tru dat

Also, it's widely known that Mercedes and McLaren have split on the SLR replacement project. Mercedes have given it to AMG, while McLaren is working on their own mid-engined project codenamed P11. About a year ago, Car Magazine, who had seen the project, have revealed that the P11's dimensions are inbetween the F430 and the R8.

Looks like something that would've been conceived back in the 90s. I hope they can do better.

And I thought McLaren and Mercedes had split. Successor to an SLR? Hope not.

The design themes of this rendering are too dated to truly be the successor to the McLaren F1. If you think back to when the news of the F1's successor was released, there was an artist impression of a successor that ended up being published in the likes of Road & Track. That design direction would seem more legitimate. All we can conclude is that the F1's successor will have some large shoes to fill and it has no choice but to be a technological and a performance benchmark for other super/hyper-cars to follow. ...and I, for one, cannot wait.

I hope its just a draw...a very bad one

No? Nobody? Ah, very well, tradition commands it. *ahem* It looks a bit like an R8.

this loooookkkkkssss REAAAALLLLYYYY, reallyyyy..... :D DDDDUUULLLLLLL!!!!!! it better be just a rendering.

too ferrari like...

Yep, this is bad. Someone was smoking something, I really hope this isn't the "F2". FU F2!

OK OK, lets see who thinks this looks like an R8 LOL :)

i am sorry but idon't think for a flat second that this is the next gen mclaren supercar. it just doesn't look finished, not even completely engineered properly. aerodynamically speaking if you look at the primary body plane it looks too much like a wedge, and i those rear air difusers look too small to disipate all the air turbulence, so at mclaren f1 speeds (220 mph+) that would cause alot of instability and that twitch that alot of cars without proper areodynamics get at high speed. if this is truly the new mclaren f12 supercar, aerodynamically speaking, it has a long way to go. if you ask me the original mclaren f1 looked the best.

The old one looked more up to date actually. This looks like a futuristic car from the 80's

I think it is highly unlikely that this would be a genuine rendering. Not just because of the dated styling but because of the major mistakes. The first one to strike me was the side mirrors. McLaren are well known as making driver-centric cars, placing the sideview mirrors at such an elevated level is not driver-centric. Second is the aerodynamics. It is clear that someone borrowed much of the initial shape from F430 and then added their own styling on top. In truth the aerodynamics of this are dismal. Such a design would build up major side turbelence buffeting the car side to side, and the bottom apparent in the renderings will only serve to provide lift. These are all errors that McLaren is extremely unlikely to make. Visually as well it lacks the balance of either the F1 or the SLR. This lack of balance is particularly evident from the top with the squared off windshield conflicting with the rounded lid top conflicting again with the pointed nose. Of course I'm ignoring the already indicated early 90s styling cues. All said, if this is genuine it is a very, very, very early rendering before the engineers got their hands on it.