Ever been to The Range? You know the shop – part garden centre, part flea market! Anyway, I visited the store near my office today and found this atrocity:
NOT a McLaren MP4-25
For just £2.99 you can purchase this pathetic attempt to mimic a Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula 1 car. Sorry, in this case the main sponsor are in fact Volatile!? Here are a few close-up shots:
Definitely NOT a McLaren MP4-25
Really NOT a McLaren MP4-25
This is what a real replica should look like:
The Real Deal
If you want an authentic replica of a McLaren Formula 1 car then avoid The Range and get yourself over to the Official Vodafone McLaren Mercedes eShop and avoid disappointment.
McLaren Fan Blog 
But it has friction power!
Actually the funniest thing must be the way they’ve changed ‘Vodafone’ into ‘Volatile’…
Great find.
Could have done with that Friction Power during the first half of last season!
Thanks for the link from F1 Fanatic – visits have gone through the roof!
he he he!!! Volatile!!! ;)this has to be a Spanish pi55 take surely!!!! very funny tho!! #:)
Maybe they thought of the Volatile sponsorship name when Alonso was still driving for McLaren?
Yeah I saw these at my local $2 shop. They also had imitation Renaults and Ferraris.
At $2 that now makes even our imitation market look expensive!
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How amusing that Santander’s sponsorship remains unchanged!
First McLaren, then Ferrari and now these toys – they’re taking over the world!
You wonder if their lawyers might not be interested in that
I’ll see what McLaren think, they may find it funny…or not!
I was thinking primarily Santander, seeing as their name hasn’t been changed on the replica, but yeah Mclaren too 😀
Strange how they didn’t change that to seomthing like Salamander!
i like that it doesn’t have front wheel bins.
ahead of its time 🙂
Maybe I have it all wrong and it’s actually a model of the MP4-26 that someone managed to smuggle away from the McLaren factory?
vodafone to rebrand as volatile in 2010. you heard it here first 🙂
Think I’d be a bit scared to own a Volatile phone, thought I have used Nokias before 😀
Well Volatile is ment to be vodafone, World 1 is Mobile 1, Tremendous R.C is mercedes benz but KEMP is that hugo boss?
Not all 4 year olds can afford the 40 plus quid that McLaren charge for a “replica”, for that matter do they even care that it’s a replica as it flies off the kitchen and smashes into the wall.
In which case 3 quid seems awfully good value. Our wee boy has 3 of them… Ferrari, McLaren & Renault “look a likes”… and loves them.
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