---
title: "This McLaren Picture Should Look Oddly Familiar to South Park Fans"
description: "It'll come to you. Just have faith."
date: "2016-06-09"
modified: "2016-06-09"
authors:
  - name: "Will Sabel Courtney"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/will-sabel-courtney"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/3891/this-mclaren-picture-should-look-oddly-familiar-to-south-park-fans"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "mclaren"
---

# This McLaren Picture Should Look Oddly Familiar to South Park Fans

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/archive-images/060916-mclaren-southpark-tn_0.jpg>)
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A few days ago, we had to zip over to [the McLaren media site](<https://cars.mclaren.press/>) to dig up some pictures of [the new MSO Carbon Fiber LT](<https://www.thedrive.com/supercars/3857/mclarens-mso-carbon-fiber-lt-is-a-675-lt-spider-doused-in-carbon-fiber>) to share with you, our dear readers. When we landed on the home page, however, the banner image McLaren has sprawled across the top caught our eye. We stopped for a second. Stared at it. Something about it seemed awfully...familiar.

![060916-mclaren-southpark-art-1.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/060916-mclaren-southpark-art-1.jpg>)
**McLaren**

The position of the cars, the location, the upraised doors on [the 570 GT](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/3694/the-mclaren-570gt-goes-hardcore-softly>) in the foreground...we'd seen it all before. But where? Did McLaren steal that basic shot from another car company? Did it remind us of some painting we'd seen hanging in the Met?

![060916-mclaren-southpark-art-2.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/060916-mclaren-southpark-art-2.jpg>)
**McLaren**

And then, like a thunderbolt cast down by Zeus—it hit us.

![060916-mclaren-southpark-art-3.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/060916-mclaren-southpark-art-3.jpg>)
**Comedy Central**

Yes, McLaren's headline image these days is a near copy of the album art for [Eric Cartman's Christian rock band, *Faith + 1*.](<https://southpark.cc.com/clips/154139/flashy-inspirational-album-cover>)

Either this is one of the biggest coincidences in the long, traditionally boring history of automotive stock photography...or there's one very sneaky South Park fan working at McLaren who managed to sneak a fast one past Ron Dennis. (Hell, maybe it *is* Ron Dennis.)

Either way, we figured you'd appreciate it.

## Author
Will is the former managing editor of *RIDES Magazine* and the former online editor for *0-60 Magazine*. He has worked for *Time Out New York* and *Rolling Stone*, and was the creator of *College Cars Online*, the first automotive blog specifically targeted at college students and young professionals.

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