Hmm, was reading The Secret Diary Of Adrian Newey: Part 25 at Planet-F1.com and saw this:

I have saved the juiciest morsel of gossip till last. Our new car, the McLaren MP4-18. It doesn’t actually exist.

We keep on pretending that it’s not ready for launch yet and that we want to make it reliable and that we’re testing it in private etc etc. But there is no McLaren MP4-18. There never was going to be one, we’ve just been fibbing. The fact is that Ron has spent all of the 2003 McLaren budget on state-of-the-art interiors for the new Mclaren HQ, the Paragon centre – titanium toilets, walnut furniture, a complete fur-lined boardroom, that sort of stuff, and now we’ve run out of money.

Ron thought it might give Ferrari and Williams a bit of a boost if they discovered we were just going to put a few go-faster stripes on the MP4-17 and call it the MP4-17GT, so we concocted this whole story about a new car. Altogether, most amusing.

Hmm… now that’s revealing! smiley
But of course, it’s not true (I hope!)… it’s quite nice to read the funny side of Adrian Newey - not sure if he’s the one wrote all the crap… especially about all his soup-making quest in the McLaren HQ…