Before I ended up in Microsoft Jail, I was having a grand time at the Forza 5 event talking to Greg Levine, McLaren's director of sales and marketing. What a guy like Mr.Levine really needs is lots of incredible/inane suggestions from a guy like me, so I was happy to help him out.

In their latest instalment, the guys at XCARfilms ask an interesting question: has the McLaren MP4-12C pushed the likes of Ferrari and Lamborghini off the must own list? Or for those of us with bank managers looking cynically out our monthly statements, out of the fantasy garage?

Turn 10 is going nuts for McLaren, wheeling out a P1 for their Forza 5 presentation today at E3.

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This McLaren 12c reportedly caught on fire at a race this week. We know McLaren wanted to compete with Ferrari, but maybe they shouldn't have been so rigorous.

By now, everyone has heard that Honda is coming back to Formula 1 as an engine supplier. Turbo V6 engines will be the regulated standard for the premier motorsports starting in 2014, and Honda will reenter the sport in 2015 once they've spent a great deal of time engineering the new motor.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the McLaren-Honda partnership was one of the most successful in all of motorsports. Their five year partnership netted four world championships and a second. And starting in 2015, they want to recapture that magic once again.

This is McLaren's fantastic P1 hypercar doing what it was made for: going very fast using all the power from its biturbo 3.8 V8 and electric wizardry. Sounds good, looks good, and probably feels good too.

For years now, people have been calling cars like the Ferrari 458, the Lamborghini Gallardo, the McLaren MP4-12C and even the Lexus LFA "supercars." This is bullshit.

Evo Magazine's Nick Trott just got himself a McLaren MP4-12C with some miles on its clock as a daily driver from Woking for the next six month. While we keep waiting for our phone to ring, think about the car for a second, and tell Nick what you would do with it.