mclaren configurator

The McLaren GT was launched in conjunction with the opening of the McLaren Kuala Lumpur showroom in Glenmarie. It is a 3S facility operated by McFarren Supercars and is at the moment, the brand’s sole retail presence in Malaysia. On the ground floor of the 420 square meter sales facility, prospective customers are able to customise their McLaren with the interactive car configurator. There’s a unique feature called the McLaren Window, which feeds live view into the McLaren Production Centre (MPC

Shaun

Nov 9, 2019

It has been a while since we last saw the McLaren Formula 1 team collaborate with other brands to make some exclusive (and functional) merchandise for us to consume. But now, the team has broken their streak with a special collaboration with audio brand Klipsch and the result is a special pair of McLaren F1 earphones. Known as the Klipsch T5 II True Wireless Sport McLaren edition, the earphones and case are decorated with the hallmark Papaya Orange strip and carbon fibre accents. The earphones a

Jerrica

Jul 17, 2020

One of a kind, being the only mid-engine grand tourer Total luggage capacity of 570 litres Reworked 4.0L twin turbo V8 delivers 620 PS and 630 Nm of torque Speed, agility and practicality aren’t mutually exclusive as proven by McLaren with the GT. It is aimed at the likes of Aston Martin DB11, Ferrari 812, and Bentley Continental GT. But first, let’s get the stats out of the way. 0-100 km/h is dealt with in 3.2 seconds, keep the go fast pedal pinned to the floor and it’ll hit a top speed of 326

Shaun

Nov 6, 2019

Anda terpegun dengan apa yang anda lihat? Inilah McLaren 765LT 2021 yang mengagumkan. Mclaren yang dibina dengan gentian karbon ini membuat penampilan pertama di Malaysia melalui McLaren Kuala Lumpur. Disebabkan model 720S yang terdahulu dipercayai boleh mengendalikan lebih kuasa, McLaren telah menambah 45 PS pada enjin 4.0 liter V8 twin-turbo. Dengan itu, penggantinya kini menghasilkan 765 PS @ 7,500 rpm dan 800 Nm tork @ 5,500 rpm. Penambahan kuasa ini diperoleh melalui pam bahan api, injap, d

Faisal

Sep 18, 2020

Built from the ground up, the all-new 2021 McLaren Artura replaces the McLaren 570S. It represents many of the company’s firsts, of which we’ll get into in a moment. McLaren calls it a High-Performance Hybrid (HPH) supercar and unlike the McLaren P1, the Artura’s production number isn’t capped. The McLaren Artura is the first to sit on the new platform named McLaren Carbon Lightweight Architecture (MCLA), which is optimized for HPH powertrains and is built in-house. The body features a combinati

Shaun

Feb 17, 2021

Grand tourer or GT is a phrase to describe cars made for high speed cruising, combining performance and luxury. Traditionally, most GT cars are front-engined and are heavier, which blunts agility and nimbleness. This is where the 2019 McLaren GT pulls an advantage over traditional GT cars. McLaren’s take on a GT car is to combine luxury, practicality and agility. Priced at RM 908,000 (without tax and options), the McLaren GT is motivated by a 4.0-litre twin turbocharged V8 that makes 620 PS and

Shaun

Nov 13, 2019

Ruslin Tamsir is a Kuala Lumpur native who, through his expertise and fervent hardwork, has brought a Malaysian touch to the wild McLaren Senna. He recently went viral over his patented, fastener-less speaker enclosure for the hypercar - which is the focal point of this article. From humble beginnings... Ruslin is a man of many interests and for him, cars sit right at the top. So much so that it even influenced where he would study. “The reason why I choose to go to Germany is because I like car

Sanjay

Jan 26, 2021

Joao Dias, the Principal Exterior Designer at McLaren since 2016, released a design sketch of a sexy-looking red machine on his Instagram with the caption “The world needs more red Mazdas.” The sketch does draw similarities with the RX-Vision concept car, which was previewed 5 years ago. Long bonnet, front-engine sports car with presumably a rotary engine. Typical of design concepts, the wheels are absurdly large and within them are equally massive Brembo brakes. There’s a Mazda logo on the fron

Shaun

Jun 23, 2020

We've long established that electric cars are the way forward, although there are always naysayers. Well, the naysayers won't like watching this: A Kia EV6 GT electric car going toe to toe with some of the world's fastest supercars. Watch as Kia's latest and greatest battle it out in a drag race against renowned performance cars like the Lamborghini Urus, Ferrari California T, McLaren 570S, Porsche 911 and Mercedes AMG GT. Fast cars in their own right. Can the Kia EV6 GT, or will it end up with

Jason

Apr 18, 2021

Like what you see? This is the fire-breathing, carbon-fibre-clad 2021 McLaren 765LT, unveiled today at McLaren Kuala Lumpur. Let's get right down to it because this is as no-nonsense as it gets. The good people of Woking took a tame 720S, elongated it, added expensive go-faster bits and pieces from their Formula 1 and flagship road cars to create this beast. The result is a blisteringly-quick, shouty British brute. Some numbers: the M840T 4.0-litre turbocharged V8 makes an eye-watering 765 PS at

Sanjay

Sep 18, 2020

Rolls-Royce is known for creating the pinnacle of automobile with the highest level of luxury and comfort. While the cars aren’t slow by any stretch, performance isn’t their priority. But if they were to do so and make a supercar, here’s how it could look like. Now, what exactly is a supercar? It’s actually a somewhat made-up term but the industry went along with it so here we are. You’d get arguments on what constitutes a sports car, supercar, or even a hypercar. To put it briefly, a supercar i

Shaun

May 7, 2020

The 2021 Mercedes-Benz E-Class (W213) will lose the traditional hood ornament that has adorned so many Mercedes-Benz cars over the years. Mercedes has confirmed the matter after the option was no longer available on the 2021 Mercedes-Benz E-Class (W213) online configurator, as reported by MotorTrend. The 2021 Mercedes-Benz E-Class is expected to launch in Malaysia early 2021. Hood ornaments started out as temperature gauges, but when temperature gauges were moved to the dashboard, hood ornaments

Arif

Dec 21, 2020

Well, it looks like we have a double whammy of supercars making their debut in Malaysia today. First, there is the McLaren 765LT and now this, the 2021 Ferrari SF90 Stradale which is just unveiled at the newly renovated Naza Italia Ferrari showroom in Petaling Jaya. The SF90 Stradale shares its name with the SF90 Formula One car from 2019. The SF90 name stands for the 90th anniversary of the Scuderia Ferrari racing team while “Stradale” stands for road in Italian. The SF90 Stradale is a mid-engi

CY Foong

Sep 18, 2020

New technology makes life easier, but can sometimes become an annoyance too. Take Apple’s Airpods and a wireless mouse for example. You now have to charge your earphones and mouse just to get them to work. Sometimes new technology can be a fad like the Segway, and worse, it can even be fraudulent like Theranos’s one-drop blood test. In 2018, we heard the news of the Audi E-TRON and the Lexus ES replacing the standard side view mirrors with side-view cameras instead. Also making a debut in 2018 w

Arif

Jun 4, 2020

Remember this ad of the BMW M5 camera chaser car filming a land speed record car in the early 2000s? The ad was made to showcase the M5 as the “fastest saloon on the planet”. Fast forward to 2020, this ad has become reality as a video producer converted a BMW M5 into the perfect camera car. Dubbed “The Bavarian Ranch Hand”, this 2002 E39 BMW 5 Series M5 is a purpose-built camera chaser car capable of capturing car-to-car footages at speeds over 200 km/h. The Ranch Hand is equipped with a modifie

Jerrica

Jul 14, 2020

Ferrari SF90 Stradale 3 model kereta berprestasi tinggi dilancarkan di Malaysia hari ini. McLaren 765 LT, Ferrari SF90 Stradale dan Porsche Taycan kesemuanya melakukan debut buat pertama kalinya di Malaysia. Ferrari SF90 Stradale telah dilancarkan oleh Naza Italia Sdn Bhd di bilik pameran mereka di Petaling Jaya. Model Ferrari SF90 Stradale ini merupakan kereta elektrik jenis Plug In Hybrid (PHEV) dengan enjin di bahagian tengah yang pertama oleh Ferrari. SF90 Stradale berkongsi nama dengan kere

Haris

Sep 18, 2020

Seiring dengan inisiatif tempoh pengurangan cukai oleh kerajaan, industri automotif menyaksikan pertumbuhan positif secara bulanan berturut-turut. Terbaru, bulan September 2020 menyaksikan pertumbuhan sebanyak 7% berbanding bulan Ogos 2020. MAA berkata jualan kenderaan penumpang melonjak kepada 51,422 unit pada September 2020 berbanding 40,267 unit pada September 2019. Selain itu, penjualan kenderaan komersial juga turut meningkat kepada 5,022 unit daripada 4,399 unit. Hal ini menunjukkan pertum

Haris

Oct 20, 2020

Naza Italia, the official importer and distributor of Ferrari brand in Malaysia, has introduced the Ferrari Roma. Based on the Ferrari Portofino, the Ferrari Roma is an entry-level grand tourer that goes against the likes of Aston Martin Vantage and McLaren GT. It measures 4,656 mm long, 1,974 mm wide, and 1,301 mm tall. Wheelbase stretches at 2,670 mm, identical to the Portofino. Weight however, is lower than the Portofino by 94 kg, weighing in at 1,570 kg. The Ferrari Roma wears a set of 20-in

Shaun

Jun 23, 2020

The Honda Civic EG hatchback, or “Bullet”, is a good-looking and rather sought-after car in Malaysia. This entry has no intention of offending Civic fans. The contraption you see in the picture above and below is a “Hyper-miler” Honda Civic EG called the “Aero-Civic”. It was built by Mike Turner, an EcoModder from USA. Pictures of his car are obtained from his webite (aerocivic.com) Before we go on, let’s first understand what Hyper-Miling is. Hyper-Miling is the practice of extremely energy eff

Arif

Jun 27, 2020

Nobody's surprised here and nobody is going to argue with the verdict of the panel of judges – the C-segment Mazda 3 has just been crowned the 2020 World Car Design of the Year. Among the experts on the panel are Gordon Murray (McLaren F1), Ian Callum (all recent Jaguars), Patrick le Quément (Renault Avantime), and Shiro Nakamura (Isuzu Vehicross, Nissan Cube). “Before accepting this prize, Mazda Motor Corporation would like to express our sympathy for all of those affected by the novel coronavi

Hans

Apr 9, 2020

An increasingly common feature in automatic transmission cars nowadays is paddle shifters. 9 times out of 10, a new car will come equipped with it, be it an econobox like a Honda City or a hot-blooded supercar (a McLaren 720S comes to mind). How did this feature become so prevalent? Is it just a gimmick, or something genuinely useful? How did it even come about? Origins of the paddle shift The most primitive form of a paddle shift system was first seen in 1901, which was invented by Amedé Bollée

Jason

Feb 3, 2021

Satu perincian yang semakin kerap didatangkan dengan kereta bertransmisi automatik masa kini ialah ‘paddle shifters’ – pedal/butang kecil yang ditolak dengan jari di belakang stereng untuk memudahkan pemandu menukar gear di dalam kereta auto. Kebanyakan kereta moden didatangkan dengan perincian ini – dari kereta biasa seperti Honda City sehinggalah ‘supercar’ hebat-hebat seperti McLaren 720S. Bagaimana perincian ini boleh jadi begitu popular sejak kebelakangan ini? Adakah ia satu gimik semata-ma

Mersita

Feb 14, 2021

Perodua Myvi Ferrari F8 Spider, McLaren GT, 2018 Perodua Myvi, Lamborghini Huracan, etc. These are some of the finest supercars out there and that's why the Perodua Myvi is so successful. Jokes aside, the Perodua Myvi has been the best-selling car in Malaysia for a while now and Malaysians love it. But every now and again, we do get asked if the Perodua Myvi is a good choice. Well, why don’t we run through the things that make the Myvi such a compelling choice for so many, and talk about some of

Shaun

May 16, 2020

Footballing legend (yes, he’s a legend) Cristiano Ronaldo has won the Italian Serie A title for the second time in a row with Juventus. To celebrate that, he purchased himself a limited-edition Bugatti Centodieci according to Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera. The Centodieci – which is Italian for 110, was unveiled in August last year to celebrate Bugatti’s 110th birthday and as a modern homage to its 1990s supercar, the EB110. Based on the Bugatti Chiron, only 10 Centodieci will be built,

CY Foong

Aug 5, 2020

The Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) is a premier GT racing series based in Germany, racing a silhouette race car that's based on a mass-produced road car since the year 2000. The series used to consists mainly of the big-3 premium German manufacturers, namely Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz. However, the DTM series has seen a steady decline, evident by a shock withdrawal from Mercedes-Benz in 2017, leaving only BMW and Audi to carry the torch forward. Few other manufacturers such as Nissan, Opel,

Zamil Syaheer

May 6, 2020

A source has told BBC that the Renault F1 Team will soon be announcing Fernando Alonso’s return to the French team. Rumours of the two-time World Champion’s return have been circulating since 2019 when the media caught wind that Alonso is in talks with Renault in November. It didn’t help that the Renault F1 Team started uploading photos of Alonso in his glory days onto their various social media platforms. The rumours were further fuelled when Alonso’s adviser and former Team Principal of the Re

Jerrica

Jul 8, 2020

Recently, we've seen a spate of crashes/accidents involving high-performance cars. Most of these mishaps seem due to misplaced confidence. It's one thing to lose control unknowingly, it's another to turn off stability controls on a public road. This isn't uncommon. There are even YouTube channels dedicated to documenting crashes involving high-powered cars. Let's take a moment to explore why these crashes happen so frequently. Is it a driver problem? Or have cars just become so powerful, the ave

Jason

Feb 27, 2021

The Japanese Bubble Era of the late eighties and early nineties was a wonderful time to be around as a car fan. That period saw Japan’s automotive industry exploded into an era filled with technological and design masterpieces. The soaring asset prices and strong Japanese yen caused Japanese automakers like Nissan, Toyota and Honda to be more daring by launching legendary icons like the R32 Skyline GT-R and the Honda NSX as well as luxury brands like Lexus and Infiniti. At the same time, most of

CY Foong

Jul 4, 2020

Perodua Myvi Ferrari F8 Spider、McLaren GT、Perodua Myvi、Lamborghini Huracan……这些都是市面上最好的超跑，但为什么Myvi能够如此出色呢？好吧，不开玩笑的说，Perodua Myvi确实是大马近期最畅销的一款车，深受大马人民的喜爱。 但时不时的，还是会有人问我们，Perodua Myvi到底值不值得入手。那么，我们就来回顾一下为什么会有这么多人选择Myvi，同时，也讨论一下它还有什么值得改进的地方吧。 Perodua Myvi有什么优点？ 首先，它有着极高的性价比。它是第一款标价低于RM 60k却搭载了ADAS套件的车型，Perodua称之为高级安全辅助系统（ASA），其中包括碰撞前预警和自动刹车、前车启动警示和踏板误操作控制等功能。 就算是价格最低的1.3升G版本，也配备了电子稳定性控制和4具安全气囊。虽然后者没有什么好炫耀的，但值得注意的是，稍贵一点的Perodua Bezza 1.3 X版本（标价RM 43,980），只配备了2具气囊。 第二，是它可靠耐用的口碑。车子的动力总成并不出彩，搭载了一具1.5升自然

Rax

Feb 15, 2021

今日，换挡拨片已经称为自排车型上一个十分常见的配备了。无论是Honda City还是热血跑车（比如McLaren 720S），10辆新车中，有9辆都会配备换挡拨片。这项配备为何会如此流行？它到底只是一个小噱头，还是真的有重要作用呢？它到底从何而来？ 换挡拨片的起源 拨片换挡系统最初在1901年形成，由Amedé Bollée发明，并应用到了他的Bollée Type F Torpedo上。当时，这个系统采用的是纯机械结构。 随后，在1989年，Ferrari在一级方程式赛车640上进一步完善了这项技术。通过安装在方向盘后面的两个拨片，驾驶员能够在双手不离开方向盘的情况下进行换挡操作。并且，由于采用了电子-液压系统，换挡可以在无离合器介入的情况下完成。这一技术的引进，开启了一级方程式整体的技术转向。今天，在F1比赛中，换挡拨片已经是司空见惯的东西了。 之后，Ferrari由将换挡拨片技术引进到旗下的民用车，首先作为选装配备搭载到了Ferrari F355上。而也是从这一刻开始，传统手排换档杆的丧钟也被敲响了。由于换挡拨片十分受青睐，今天的Ferrari已经不再提供手排变速箱的选项了。 A

Rax

Feb 6, 2021