The multimedia screen is oriented vertically in order to help achieve the vehicle's target dimensions, and the massive tachometer is the instrument equivalent of a Jumbotron. The windshield is taller than it is wide, and the proportion is designed to help you spot apexes and place the front wheels РІР‚вЂњ visually identifiable by the slight humps on the front end РІР‚вЂњ exactly where they need to be. Bisected by a narrow center partition, this cockpit exemplifies levels of functionality typically associated with military aircraft. Or the dihedral doors, which open up and out to allow easier entry into the cabin, one of countless McLaren details engineered with an uncanny instinct for design purity. Car geeks unite: Your steed is here, and only you will get the four-wheeled joke.Р”В«ut the proof, as they say, is in the pudding. Even its alphanumeric moniker has more in common with C-3PO than any vehicle ought to. Waist-high and swoopy, the McLaren may not be a shrinking violet in the topiary of supercars, but neither is it as sensuously enticing as the Monica Belucci-in-a-negligee Ferrari 458 Italia, or as intimidating as the oh-shit-the-mothership-has-landed Lamborghini Aventador. Like Vegas strip clubs or the pool bar at the Delano in South Beach, the meek need not apply РІР‚вЂњ and if they do, they better damn well have a good reason for loitering in that rarified company.Р”Р„nd so the McLaren MP4-12C, while comely and sleek, isn't the most visually charismatic player in this pumped up, pornographically endowed slice of the automotive stratosphere.

Eye-popping curves and salacious silhouettes are time-honored ingredients of the exotic car formula. This is what the voice inside my head has been insisting since I was 14 years old, when the very same (if slightly less mature) spirit guide led me to hang a Lamborghini Countach poster above my bed and doodle Ferrari Testarossas all over my Pee Chee folders.Р”В«ut somehow, to my eye, the McLaren MP4-12C doesn't quite strike a nerve the way old school Р“Сberexotics once did.

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