1994 McLaren F1 from UK and Ireland - Comments

That guy bought his F1 in 1994 and his previous car was a Ferrari F50. But AFAIK the F50 wasn't sold before 1996. Or am I wrong?

No, you're quite correct. And no the F1 does not have paddle change. The Ferrari F60 was indeed produced only after this persons F1. So one wonders how he did it! And as it costs £330,000 and only 349 were made, we will wonder. Did you know that you have to have owned at least 3 Ferraris before you have the option of an F50?

That's crap, you don't have own at least 3 Ferraris before you have the option of an F50. Money talks!!!

It is not crap. Ferrari will only sell you an F50 if you have purchased more than 3 cars from them. And as only 349 were ever made they can afford to do this. Money may talk, but when a car costs $555,000 you need a huge amount to cover the shout.

Please come on give us all a break. The F1 is the fastest car ever. At least if you're gonna lie, read a little about cars first and by the way, was your F1 two door, four door or a hatchback?? One day your dreams may come true.

I saw a Jeremy Clarkson review on "Hyper-Cars" and he said it was not exciting enough!! He rated the Ferrari F40 as the all time best. The F40 is an amazing car, and in ways is better than the McLaren:

1) Better looking

2) Much rawer and race like driving experience

3) Much better sounding engine

4) A lot cheaper, and that badge of course

5) Last ferrari made before Enzo died, so it has some special sentimental attatchment to it

6) Still amazingly quick and who really does 0-60 on public roads in 3.8 seconds without risking death or jail for a long time?

Of course the McLaren is very very good, but imagine this. You are very rich, but still have spent nearly a million on a car. Think about it, a car that goes from A to B that's it. You have to spend £25000 a year just to service it. Depends how much of a stinge you are. I would not spend that much on a car even if I had £10 million.

I would buy lots of cars and still have spent less than that!!

The fact about having to have owned 3 Ferrari's before being allowed to have an F50 is absolutely true. It was partly to screen out people who were going to buy the car, then sell it on again immediately for a profit.

I too saw the JC review of the McLaren F1 in which he also said that it was the best of them all, no question. It just wasnt his favourite. I mean in 8 years of being around the F1 has yet to be beaten. A 3 seat super nutter car that is more practical than a fiesta, faster than any motorbike (Busa included), an engine note that makes grown men start to dribble and engineering excellence that is unparallelled. There can be only 1, and it is the F1.

I don't mean to have a go at the person who said this, just a point I would like to make in response to:

"6) Still amazingly quick and who really does 0-60 on public roads in 3.8 seconds without risking death or jail for a long time?". You have acceleration confused with speed here, many people do it. There's no law that I know of against accelerating too fast alone.

Just a point, don't mean to bag anyone.

(Speaking of acceleration, give me an RX-7 and 1/10th the cost of an F1 and I'll go faster :) see http://www.rx7.com/racing/content/times.html)

Cheers to you all, the F1 does rock indeed!

Actually, in my area, you CAN be pulled over for acceleration. The local police seem not to appreciate this behavior, even if you never break the limit. I belive it is caused "reckless driving" or some other such trash.

Cheers

Hi there everyone, just a couple of comments. Firstly the Mclaren F1 has paddles located behind the steering wheel, but they are there to select functions such as the trip computer and the like, not to change gear. Secondly, has anyone thought that the auto F1 owner might be disabled in some way and may require a hand throttle and thus at least a semi-auto. I don't really believe it myself though. I have had the F1 experience as a passenger on a private run, it was at the military proving ground in Cobham, Surrey. Creighton Brown was behind the wheel and took us to 160 MPH (the limit for the circuit). I must admit it was a bit of an anti-climax, maybe three laps isn't enough to make you even realise that you did indeed have the F1 experience.

If you have found the experience in Cobham a let down, you may have found that you were asleep as there is no such proving ground. You should have been part of the test team that Andy Wallace took around Bruntingthorpe. Ear defenders are a must in the GT.

That's right you spend nearly a million quid on a Mclaren and feel proud to own it and enjoy the thrill of driving it, or you don't do that and tuck your millions away in the bank and enjoy looking at all the noughts in your bank book. Next day you peg out, and lo and behold the tax man cometh and takes away 40 per cent from your estate, and then you down from above and say Jesus I wish I had bought that Mclaren.

There is a proving ground at Chobham, a MILITARY PROVING GROUND where they test tanks and the like. It is very near to the Mclaren factory and lots of car magazines use the MILITARY PROVING GROUND to road test new cars.

BTW I wasn't sleeping during the three laps.

Very funny what someone said about the possibility of this "owner" being disabled and having had his McLaren special ordered with an automatic! Very touching if you think about it (a less fortunate man realising his life long dream of going faster than anyone else before etc etc) but BE REAL please with your comments! THERE ARE NO AUTOMATIC MCLAREN F1s! And furthermore there were just 3-4 (out of about 100) 1993 ones.

This is truly funny, how can someone lie with such stupidity. The gear box, puh??? auto's with lower power levels are quicker 0-60 than there manual counterparts, that's a fact, but to pretend an auto f1 exists is stupidity at its best.

Like the guy earlier? read before you bend the truth.