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  • The Fascinating Story Of The First Plastic Car

    The Fascinating Story Of The First Plastic Car

    In 1981, McLaren changed the car world when it debuted the MP4/1, the first Formula One car with a complete carbon fibre chassis. From then on, slowly but surely, people came to understand that a fibre-reinforced composite — plastic — was the fastest, lightest, strongest, best way to put a performance car together. Long before…