Ian Gorsuch

by Executive Editors September 18, 2011

written by Executive Editors September 18, 2011

It the Beirut launch of McLaren Automotive’s long awaited high performance car, the MP4-12C, Executive spoke with Ian Gorsuch, McLaren’s regional director for the Middle East and Africa. A totally bespoke car, the 12C has a lightweight carbon fiber chassis structure and a 3.8-liter, V8 twin-turbo engine producing around 600 brake horse power (bhp), able to reach 0-100 kilometers per hour (km/hr) in just 3.3 seconds. The MP4-12C has been a long time coming, with production of the iconic McLaren F1 ending in 1998 and the world’s best selling luxury supercar, the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, in 2009. Why did it take so long? We had a long gestation period. Over the last three years there’s been a lot of speculation about what we were doing, especially as we had no new car on the road. And because it is our first car (in such volume), there has been a lot

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Ian Gorsuch

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