There is no doubt that sometime in the light of your kid-dom, you've had a poster hanging right above your bed of the legendary, timeless, iconic McLaren F1 supercar. I'd go even further to bet that the color of that F1 was silver and that poster either replaced or hung directly next to a poster of a red Lamborghini Countach. Ahhh memories. Today, McLaren has created a worthy predecessor, dubbed, the MP4-12C. It carries the prowess McLaren built with the F1 but is fair to compare the two? Autocar is thirsty enough to find out and takes the cream of the crop F1-GTR and puts it against the all new MP4-12C.

This comparison isn't just interesting because it's old verse new, 600+bhp verse 600+bhp or even street verse track but because the McLaren F1-GTR is regarded as one of the most pure, connected and communicative driving experiences and how would McLaren follow that up? Their answer is the MP4-12C.

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