Anyone found any good luggage?

[samoht]

Having just joined the ranks of McLaren owners and with thoughts turning to warmer weather and longer trips, I'm naturally thinking about how best to pack my new 570GT.

I find myself underwhelmed with the fitted luggage offerings; I'm not convinced that slicing the boot space up into three thin cases yields the most useable result:

https://www.cksperformance.com/products/mclaren-lu...
And while I appreciate the low volumes are part of it, for £1600 I'd want something amazing in every respect, which these don't quite convince me of.


I'm thinking a single large wheeled suitcase would be more packable and easier to carry around than three thin ones.

I actually got a full-size Samsonite to sit in the frunk, but of course it's too tall for the lid to close

that blue case is quoted as 75 x 51 x 31cm and 94L capacity

it's the middle dimension, 51cm that's key; I think the available height declines from 52cm to 45cm as you go forwards. So something around 45cm wide seems about right.

The best shot I've found online is this Delsey
https://int.delsey.com/en-gb/products/002087820-tr...
which is 67x44x28cm and 77L, but can also expand width-wise.


For behind the seats I'm thinking a couple of holdalls one each side, as the space is long and thin and doesn't really suit any hard-frame cases.


So... what do you do about packing your McLaren? Any cases you've found that maximise the available volume(s)? Any gotchas?

[samoht]

andrew said:

surely some sainsburys bags would be more flexible in eking out every inch of space ?

Yes, however there are two further goals to optimise, as well as space efficiency:
- not having too many separate bags (much easier to carry say two bags each than five each)
- being able to roll some of the luggage rather than heft it

Carrier bags would end up being too many, and also stuff can fall out. Larger soft bags seem a better bet, but then could be a bit heavy and awkward to carry I fear. Hence looking towards one medium size suitcase and two or three medium size bags.

[samoht]

DRZ said:

Speak to Colin Surman at BagWorld. He makes custom luggage for cars and will make them to whatever dimensions you want. Cost for a 5 piece set for my GT was around £1k in leather with a few little extra touches. I've not got around to actually ordering a set yet but I did visit his place and was measured up and given the tour and so on and got to handle some real-world example luggage. He's done quite a few sets for people on PH including the luggage you see in the MSO 1 thread.

BagWorld sounds good, thanks. Given that individual bags can easily cost a few hundred quid, that sounds like a fair price too.