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  2. McLaren MP4/4 - Wikipedia

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    The McLaren MP4/4, also known as the McLaren-Honda MP4/4, is one of the most successful Formula One car designs of all time. Powered by Honda 's RA168E 1.5-litre V6 - turbo engine and driven by teammates Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna , the car competed during the 1988 Formula One season .

  3. McLaren 12C - Wikipedia

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    The McLaren MP4-12C, later rebranded as the McLaren 12C, is a sports car produced by the British carmaker McLaren Automotive. Manufactured between 2011 and 2014 and designed by Frank Stephenson , the MP4-12C was available as both a coupe and a retractable hard-top convertible , the latter known as the "Spider".

  4. Honda RA16 engine - Wikipedia

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    The 1988 McLaren-Honda MP4/4. Honda's supreme year in its days as an engine supplier came with McLaren in 1988. Mated to the Steve Nichols and Gordon Murray designed McLaren MP4/4 and with then dual World Champion Alain Prost and Brazilian Ayrton Senna as the drivers, the McLaren-Honda duo had an almost perfect season. Unlike most, Honda built ...

  5. Formula One engines - Wikipedia

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    The 1999 McLaren MP4/14 produced between 785 and 810 hp @ 17,000 rpm. Ferrari gradually improved their engine. In 1996, they changed from their traditional V12 engine to a smaller and lighter V10 engine. They preferred reliability to power, losing out to Mercedes in terms of outright power initially.

  6. McLaren MP4/5 - Wikipedia

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    The MP4/5 was loosely based on its 1988 predecessor, the all-conquering MP4/4. McLaren used the new car for half of the 1989 season using the Weismann Longitudinal Transmission from the MP4/4, and the MP4/5B with the Weismann Transverse Transmission for the last half of the 1989 season and for 1990, earning back-to-back drivers' and ...

  7. Project Four Racing - Wikipedia

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    The team name lived on in the designation of the McLaren F1 race cars from 1981 to the 2016 season, all McLarens, starting with the John Barnard designed McLaren MP4/1, had carried the "MP4" name, with MP4 standing for "Marlboro Project 4" and later "McLaren Project 4". The road car McLaren MP4-12C also carried the prefix until it was dropped ...

  8. McLaren MP4/3 - Wikipedia

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    The sixth car, known as the MP4/3B, was a test mule for the Honda turbo engine that would power McLaren's hopes for 1988. The MP4/3B never raced, but was tested by Prost, and later his 1988 teammate Ayrton Senna, until the all-new MP4/4 made its track debut at Imola a week before the start of the 1988 season (Prost lapped Imola over 2 seconds ...

  9. McLaren MP4/7A - Wikipedia

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    This was the first McLaren to use a semi-automatic transmission; it was a McLaren-designed electro-hydraulic clutch and paddle-shift unit with semi-automatic activation (a semi-automatic transmission had been tested during the previous season with the MP4/6 and was on track during practice for the 1991 Hungarian Grand Prix, but the team elected to retain that car's original manual transaxle ...