First Look: McLaren 12C Can-Am Edition Hits Pebble Beach

If you concentrate real hard, you can smell the salty breeze of the Pebble Beach Concours wafting toward all car nuts, bringing along its annual splendor of stunning new models that this year includes the McLaren 12C Can-Am Edition track car – the most focused rendition of the MP4-12C road car that McLaren has made thus far.

Is it necessary? No, not in the least. Is it practical? Maybe if you think a car that will never see public roads is practical. Is it awesome? Why yes, it is indeed awesome, packing a 630 horsepower twin-turbo V8 into a 2,645 lb. body that will attack road courses with a 30-percent increase in downforce over the standard MP4-12C. And we thought the MP4-12C Spider deserved praise. More...