McLaren’s Bizarre X-1 Concept Shows It’ll Build ANY Commissioned Car [2012 Pebble Beach]

When visiting McLaren's factory earlier this year, we learned that the McLaren Special Operations division, which builds personalized cars for discriminating clients, was working on an incredible custom-bodied project. A client had requested totally unique bodywork for an MP4-12C. The final product, MSO staff said, would bear no resemblance to the normal MP4-12C. In fact, McLaren was considering keeping the project a complete secret. Anyone lucky enough to see the bespoke car on the street wouldn't make the McLaren connection; only the company, the buyer and his friends, and perhaps a dealer's staff, would know. We suspect that car turned out to be the X-1 concept, which McLaren recently unveiled at an event during the annual Pebble Beach Festival of Wealth. Read full story » from Car and Driver Blog http://blog.caranddriver.com

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