Cia A. Newey pasakoja apie tikra MP4/18 istorija. Citata paemiau is planet-f1.com
"Our new car, the McLaren MP4-18. It doesn’t actually exist.
We keep on pretending that it’s not ready for launch yet and that we want to make it relia*** and that we’re testing it in private etc etc. But there is no McLaren MP4-18. There never was going to be one, we’ve just been fibbing. The fact is that Ron has spent all of the 2003 McLaren budget on state-of-the-art interiors for the new Mclaren HQ, the Paragon centre – titanium toilets, walnut furniture, a complete fur-lined boardroom, that sort of stuff, and now we’ve run out of money.
Ron thought it might give Ferrari and Williams a bit of a boost if they discovered we were just going to put a few go-faster stripes on the MP4-17 and call it the MP4-17GT, so we concocted this whole story about a new car."