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Ricardo assembly facility to build the “world’s greenest supercar engine”

The Engineer visited Ricardo’s UK technical centre to take a look at the facility that’s building the engines for Mclaren’s MP4-12C

Source: The Engineer

Ricardo is building the lean, green engine for Mclaren's MP4-12C supercar

A state-of-the-art assembly facility that wil be used to produce the engines for Mclaren’s MP4-12C supercar has been unveiled by Ricardo.

The 600m2 facility was officially opened last week by Mclaren boss Ron Dennis and will be used to assemble 4,000 of the super-efficient 3.8l V8 engines per year

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