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Enmanuel:
Stroll, yikes.
I'm really curious what that 4 door McL would be like.
Im sure it will be their version of a SUV. Like Ferrari though, my guess is you will not be allowed to call it a SUV.
How?
Up until this very second, every single car that came out of Woking is on exactly the same platform, just some tweaks here and there.
They don't even have money to do a new platform for their bread and butter lineup, where they gonna find the money to develop an all new 4 seater platform? Or they gonna modify that 4C tub and turned that into a 4 seater? Highly unlikely.
Body won't be carbon anymore, it will be aluminum, which they have no expertise on. Where are they gonna come up with the cash to develop an aluminum platform AND a factory to build that?
About the only valid option I see on the table is that they partnered up with someone else and rebadge something into a McLaren 4 seater.
Ferrari is out of the question, Ferrari simply won't do that. They could try asking VAG, that would put their cost way down as VAG is cranking out those bodies like there is no tomorrow and it's the best platform right now. But VAG likely will say no also.
Mercedes or BMW? Another no.
They wouldn't go lower and try any of the Japanese platforms or Koreans for that matters.
What's left?
Aston Martin.
Stroll got a brand new factory that has capacity to spare, and he would welcome the extra revenue from the extra volume. McLaren get access to a ready made premium platform, maybe they will stuff their own engine in there or maybe not. Both British so even logistics works.
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