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T SEEMED ONLY RIGHT TO GO BACK. I was here 11 years ago in the very first product created by McLaren Automotive. Then I had no idea what to expect of this all-new car from this all-new company which in a previous life had created the McLaren F1 and Mercedes-Benz SLR. What would a McLaren road car commissioned by Ron Dennis but without the genius of Gordon Murray’s input be like? Efficient? Impressive? Antiseptic? Yes, yes, and thrice yes. The convolutedly entitled McLaren MP4-12C was a technical masterpiece whose only mistake was to forget the person behind the

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