MCI Supercar
Published by square. January 28th, 2008
As a design portfolio goes, it’s difficult to argue with the man who drew up the Ford Mustang, Focus RS and S-Max. That man is David Hilton, and this is his latest project: a British-built supercar called the MC1.
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MC stands for Motorcity - that’s Hilton’s German-based design studio, which has scribbled a bunch of Ford’s current stable. Now Motorcity has teamed up with Bedfordshire-based engineering firm C2P, which is working on the development of the stunning MC1. Details remain sketchy, but we know that the MC1 will be powered by a mid-mounted V10 developing some 600bhp.
About the same length and width as a Ferrari F430, it sits on 20-inch front and 21-inch rear wheels and features the supercar-staple scissor doors. Hilton says he hopes to launch the production version of the MC1 by 2011.
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Looks cool but I’d still prefer the ascari A10. A lot of the British Car industry might have disappeared over the years but it’s surprising the number of small manufacturers that have clung on and make such good high performance cars.
There’s an amazing thing going on here. We OFTEN see the table top drawings of so-called “cars of the future”, but their reality is a long trip to the horizon. Mr. Hilton, a truly masterful designer, has presented us with what is obviously the synthesis of 2-d dream design closely transmitted into practical, if fun (and expensive) reality. All the while the MC1 retains the strong sense of what must have come out of the original ink pens on the board. Perhaps this is a function of his new design-to-production timeline capabilities.
Now somes the hard part-can he sell the dream? Can the transformation he has acheived be taken to the next level- out into the investor (and then consumer) world? I’ve got to believe that there are many others willing to support the project as frontmen, then in the marketplace. I highly suspect we’ll see some of these on the streets of LA, Vegas, London and Dubai in 2011.
Good Luck to Mr. Hiilton!