https://youtu.be/Nd6CR8PMsk8?si=JSH_7xF68B93Avk3 Top Gear is the first (and only?) publication to release a video showing off what it’s like to drive the McLaren F1’s successor.
https://youtu.be/Nd6CR8PMsk8?si=JSH_7xF68B93Avk3 Top Gear is the first (and only?) publication to release a video showing off what it’s like to drive the McLaren F1’s successor.
I know I’ll get downvoted for this but I want to love the T50 so much, but it leaves me a little cold.
The engine is clearly a masterpiece, one of the greatest petrol engines we will ever see.
I like the idea of simple, analogue, manual, real engineering.
But the design just looks so meh! Where the F1 was clean and minimal with form following function leading to a very handsome car, the T50 is very derivative and over styled IMO.
The rear end in particular is a mess. Its fussy and over designed and it looks like it sits so high at the rear because all the detail is at the top.
The front is better but could be mistaken for a Porsche or Alpine, certainly lacks an individual personality.
ok you draw a better rear end then
it’s certainly not pretty, but it wasn’t meant to be…nor was the mac f1
What about McLaren F1 designer… Is he allowed to voice criticism about the disproportional visual mass over rear fenders?
I don’t think there’s much you can do to make the rear end of a car all that pretty when it’s got a massive fan shoved up its butt. The T.33 looks far better without the fan, although it’s also shaped and styled more like something from the. 1960s than a rehash of the F1.
The T.33 is a homage to the Alfa 33 Stradale.
That explains a lot. It actually looks more faithful to the original than the new 33 Stradale concept from Alfa Romeo.