Fancy a brand new Mclaren f1?

Provided I win the euro millions tomorrow night, I'm buying a LaFerrari and doing exactly this. What an investment that'll be.

I won't even turn it on - that's what my second, gold plated, LaFerrari will be for.
 
Goose said:
Provided I win the euro millions tomorrow night, I'm buying a LaFerrari and doing exactly this. What an investment that'll be.

I won't even turn it on - that's what my second, gold plated, LaFerrari will be for.
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Lol.. Then you shouldn't be allowed to buy one.. These cars are designed and lovingly built to be driven and to be driven hard at that. It is why they are born.

If you want a cast iron investment that you just look at then buy a Picaso
 
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This upsets me tbh. Such a waste of a car.

Don't think I've seen a yellow one before, don't know if it suits or not.
 
Fernandez said:
Lol.. Then you shouldn't be allowed to buy one.. These cars are designed and lovingly built to be driven and to be driven hard at that. It is why they are born.

If you want a cast iron investment that you just look at then buy a Picaso
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this 8)
 
I'd rather buy one that has been used. This will want a fortune spending on it replacing all the perishable parts won't it?
 
Chrisgti6 said:
I'd rather buy one that has been used. This will want a fortune spending on it replacing all the perishable parts won't it?
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how it was built and with what it was built with there shouldnt be many issues - it was built not to "rust" as such - and if stored correctly would of been in a dehumidified environment
 
I actually don't mind that the cars never been driven. I think with something like the Mclaren F1 its good that theres a combination of regularly driver (Rowan Atkinsons car) and ones that are kept for posterity.

Its odd but I kind of find it comforting that there's a few of each model of hyper car out there being kept mint for the next generation. If they all got bought and given death day-in and day-out, in 20years time most of them would be written off or ruined.

What I'm not really a fan of is the models they make only a couple of and NON of them get driven, things like the Lambo Veneno or Sesto Elemento. They all get snapped up by Sheiks and locked away in the desert.
 
Fernandez said:
If you want a cast iron investment that you just look at then buy a Picaso
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You could argue that the Ferrari is a work of art, and therefore should be treated as such.

Thank **** I'm joking, mine wouldn't even get cleaned. It would have 150k on the clocks by the end of the year, too.
 
foxspeed said:
how it was built and with what it was built with there shouldnt be many issues - it was built not to "rust" as such - and if stored correctly would of been in a dehumidified environment
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I was more thinking of rubber components, bushes, tyres etc. A used and well maintained car would definately be my preference.
 
Chrisgti6 said:
I was more thinking of rubber components, bushes, tyres etc. A used and well maintained car would definately be my preference.
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tyres might perrish more than the suspension parts as the rubber used these days is quite hardwearing!

i still have my original tyres conti sports and they are bagged up and still look like new with no cracks etc in the tread/sidewalls - even used them last month when i had the wheel referbed and felt fine on the road
 
Maybe it's not been driven because it's bloody horrible :mellow:

I do like a McLaren but that's probably the worst one i've seen. I don't think yellow suits it well.
 
We all know this car's future....

The appreciation has gone through the roof given its mileage, this car will fetch what? £5-6m if not more? And obviously the new buyer won't even drive a mile in it because then it will depreciate like a stone. The new investor will do it's best to protect their investment which means....eeeer..storing it for another 10 years!!

Not cool...
 
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I bet he thought 'That was a mistake' when it was delivered so just kept it in a garage.

Bet he wishes he'd gone for a red one :smiley:
 
Price is a strange thing, it's worth whatever someone is willing to pay but I don't think it'd go for much over £1.5-2.0M. To give you some perspective we've just sold a 15k Miles F40 for £450,000 and it took almost a year to sell it. However in the same time frame we've shifted two 50k+ Miles Dino 246's for ~£200,000 each as well as a Daytona for ~£300,000. Granted the F1 is a rare car and this one is ultra rare when the condition is considered but for the same price you could have a 250 SWB that's on a completely different level of porn.

This is coming from a McLaren Fanboy by the way. :smile:
 
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