Last week publications were losing their minds. They saw an all-new McLaren P1 testing sporting some different badging that read "XP2R." Immediately folks said that it may be some sort of high-performance variant that it was shaping up for after the launch of the standard P1.
Well, how wrong they were.
It turns out that the XP2R is actually a standard P1 development car. The tag actually means eXperimental, validation and pre-production, according to Autocar. The two simply indicates it's the second test vehicle and the "R" means revised, as in a revamped prototype.
Sorry to burst the big 'ol bubble, folks!
Anyhow, get a look at 'er lapping the Green Hell below...
Mclaren is currently testing on the Nürburgring with this silver P1 'XP2R'. Mclaren's chief test driver Chris Goodwin was behind the wheel.
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