Probably a repost

[Mike-san]

I found this quote from the wiki of the McLaren F1. I had heard that at one time it was supposed to have a Honda engine, but I didn't know that Gordon Murray liked our car so much :Quote from Gordon: [2] "During this time, we were able to visit with Ayrton Senna (the late F1 Champion) and Honda's Tochigi Research Center. The visit related to the fact that at the time, McLaren's F1 Grand Prix cars were using Honda engines. Although it's true I had thought it would have been better to put a larger engine, the moment I drove the Honda NSX, all the benchmark cars--Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini--I had been using as references in the development of my car vanished from my mind. Of course the car we would create, the McLaren F1, needed to be faster than the NSX, but the NSX's ride quality and handling would become our new design target. Being a fan of Honda engines, I later went to Honda's Tochigi Research Center on two occasions and requested that they consider building for the McLaren F1 a 4.5 liter V10 or V12. I asked, I tried to persuade them, but in the end could not convince them to do it, and the McLaren F1 ended up equipped with a BMW engine."

 

[TURBO2GO]

This should be posted on the main NSXprime page IMO.

 

[NeoNSX]

This is news to me; i knew the designers of the McLaren F1 used the NSX as a benchmark, but never knew there were negotiations to get Honda to produce the engine. What a shame they didn't.