La Dolce Veloce

The P8 supercar, originally to be designed and built by Mercedes subsidiary McLaren, has officially been scrapped. Mercedes chief Ekhard Cordes said the reason is that the company is focusing on solving the quality issues plaguing its more common models, but I find that implausible. I find it highly unlikely that the automotive designers and engineers that would have been working on the P8 are now working on debugging production Mercedes – especially as the car would have been designed primarily in England (home of McLaren). More likely, this is just a cost-cutting move.

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