One fifth of all McLaren F1s head home for a party
#1
05-08-2010, 08:22 PM
One fifth of all McLaren F1s head home for a party 
"The McLaren F1 is arguably the greatest car ever built. Many would disagree – Jeremy Clarkson being one – but many see the F1 as the pinnacle of motoring perfection. Light, nimble, surprisingly low-tech in some ways and yet hugely able, it has become a motoring icon since it launched in 1994.
But the McLaren F1 isn’t just desirable, it’s enormously collectable. Just 64 road cars were made. Plus 5 McLaren LMs, a chunk of race-spec GTRs (some of which have been converted to road cars) and the prototypes. A smidge over 100 cars in total.
Which makes the McLaren F1 probably the mostly expensive modern car there is. We’ll talk in USD, as most F1s are sold in USD. Average price is around $2.5 million now. A good one would cost you $1 million more. A very good one – the old Park Lane car – went for $4.5 million in 2008. And if you move up to that rarity within – the McLaren F1 LM – there are only 5 in existence. Three are with the Sultan of Brunei. One is in the ZAZ museum in Japan and one belongs to Ralph Lauren. It’s almost certain none of these owners would sell. But if they did they would want in excess of $10 million."
#5
05-08-2010, 08:37 PM
YouTube - McLaren F1 - World Record 391 km-h on board camera
I got to see the car mentioned by the article in Parklane back in 1999.
I got to see the car mentioned by the article in Parklane back in 1999.
#8
05-09-2010, 09:02 AM
The chassis numbers of the 21 cars in attendance from near to far (or right to left) are #061, #059, #020, #050, #040, #003, #001, #069, #075, 56XPGT, XP1 LM, XP5, GTR 01R, GTR 04R (presumed), orange GTR*, GTR 10R, orange GTR, GTR 13R, orange GTR*, GTR 12R, GTR 20R.
* The orange GTRs will be 07R, 14R and 16R, but we'll need some photos taken towards the other end of the line in order to spot certain distinctive features of each one that will allow us to tell the difference between them.
I believe that at least 9 of the cars in that photo are still owned by McLaren or belong to either Ron Dennis or Mansour Ojjeh, the top executives of the company.
>8^)
ER
#9
05-09-2010, 09:31 AM
"The McLaren F1 is arguably the greatest car ever built. Many would disagree – Jeremy Clarkson being one – but many see the F1 as the pinnacle of motoring perfection. Light, nimble, surprisingly low-tech in some ways and yet hugely able, it has become a motoring icon since it launched in 1994.
But the McLaren F1 isn’t just desirable, it’s enormously collectable. Just 64 road cars were made. Plus 5 McLaren LMs, a chunk of race-spec GTRs (some of which have been converted to road cars) and the prototypes. A smidge over 100 cars in total.
Which makes the McLaren F1 probably the mostly expensive modern car there is. We’ll talk in USD, as most F1s are sold in USD. Average price is around $2.5 million now. A good one would cost you $1 million more. A very good one – the old Park Lane car – went for $4.5 million in 2008. And if you move up to that rarity within – the McLaren F1 LM – there are only 5 in existence. Three are with the Sultan of Brunei. One is in the ZAZ museum in Japan and one belongs to Ralph Lauren. It’s almost certain none of these owners would sell. But if they did they would want in excess of $10 million."
We have a McLaren F1 LM in Bahrain as well So it must be one of the 5.
#10
05-09-2010, 09:40 AM
There are actually 6 LMs if you include the prototype, XP1 LM which is still owned by McLaren and seen in the shots above. The 5 customer LMs are located: LM1 = Brunei, LM2 = Japan, LM3 = USA, LM4 = Brunei, LM5 = Brunei.
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