Apple and McLaren, denied the acquisition – Want …

Seem to be already turned off the enthusiasm for the possible acquisition, announced yesterday by the Financial Times, the group McLaren on Apple’s part. The news, bounced on the media all over the world, has been refuted in a note by the same company automotive, ready to specify as no negotiation is in progress. Apple, as his custom, did not, however, want to release any comment to the press.

The news was released in the evening yesterday, when the Financial Times announced the possible interest of Apple towards McLaren, for an acquisition estimated to be between the 1.5 and $ 3 billion. Several points of interest in a matter: the possibility of entering the winners in the automotive market, thanks to the spotlight of Formula 1, as well as the opportunity to field test all of the potential innovations to a Apple Car of the future. These speculations, however, have been disproved a few hours later, as well as confirmation of The Verge by posting a note received from the McLaren group:

We can confirm that McLaren is in discussions with Apple to no investment potential.

Apple, however, has not submitted any note to the press, as his custom: the group, in fact, is not usually publicly comment on their acquisitions, both actual and just assumed.

At the time, it is difficult to understand the reliability of the sources reported by the Financial Times, also in consideration of the subsequent confirmation made by the New York Times, on the basis of information received independently from the first head. At the same time, however, the press release of the McLaren should leave space to a few interpretations, I did the acquisition work.

it remains now that wait for the next steps of Cupertino on the front of the engines, considered as the project of the iCar seems to be back alive with the return of Bob Mansfield as the key character of the company. At the moment little is known: Project Titan, this is the name with which the initiative has been dubbed in the press, it would be still in the vessels and embryonic stem, to admire a car license plate bitten apple, you will probably have to wait beyond 2020.