McLaren F1 in london

[munch997]

http://spots.autogespot.com/viewimages.php?id=c214...

anyone see this at the weekend?
i missed the one at Wilton house because i couldnt go, so was going to go to london but didn't.... gutted!!
(anyone know who it belongs to)

[gilla]

that car used to be seen around woking a lot a few years back, i believe it was the demonstrator but could stand corrected on that, rumour also has it that it was taken off road at some point!!

[Modificata]

I drove past F1 MCL on Saturday night. I was just about to join the A4 from Richmond and it drive past. Stunning car!

[slow_1]

Interesting to see that this car F1 MCL has had no previous owners: -

Manufacturer: MCLAREN Colour: Silver
Engine Size (cc): 6064
Type: Sports/Convertible


Model Year (YYYY): 19990000
Date of 1st Registration (DD/MM/YYYY): 19990901
Vehicle Registration Mark: ***** Get the Vehicle Status Report
Number of Previous Owners: 0

Fuel: Petrol

[mreagleeyes]

I love the comments on the Link Page you gave. Proper hard core driving fanatics.

[Obiwonkeyblokey]

mreagleeyes said:

I love the comments on the Link Page you gave. Proper hard core driving fanatics.

brilliant, like something from the fast show.

[cho]

seen that one around Knightsbridge a few times as well on the same street. Assume the owner lives around there?

[munch997]

cho said:

seen that one around Knightsbridge a few times as well on the same street. Assume the owner lives around there?

really?
i know of the harrods F1 but not that one

[cho]

i saw it parked opposite what used to be the Lowndes(now Jumerei something). It was at night and i couldn't believe it as the only other one i had seen was many moons ago near Finchley when i saw one of the prototypes, XP1 i think.

on a different car saw a nice blue Pagani on the embankment(london) this morning. Wasn't making enough noise though!

[munch997]

cho said:

i saw it parked opposite what used to be the Lowndes(now Jumerei something). It was at night and i couldn't believe it as the only other one i had seen was many moons ago near Finchley when i saw one of the prototypes, XP1 i think.

on a different car saw a nice blue Pagani on the embankment(london) this morning. Wasn't making enough noise though!

when did you see the F1??
and zonda is my favourite car!! the F version, but i love those things!! hope thats a regular, though i doubt it?

[spydersingh]

IIRC, looking at that Mac, the wing mirrors are too high for a production model so I'm guessing its a prototype.

[ilovevolvo]

spydersingh said:

IIRC, looking at that Mac, the wing mirrors are too high for a production model so I'm guessing its a prototype.

No a normal road car Flemke's blue f1 has high (Bmw Z1 from memory) mirrors and a few others too
looks nice with them up there too

Russ

[Peloton25]

slow_1 said:

Interesting to see that this car F1 MCL has had no previous owners: -

Manufacturer: MCLAREN Colour: Silver
Engine Size (cc): 6064
Type: Sports/Convertible


Model Year (YYYY): 19990000
Date of 1st Registration (DD/MM/YYYY): 19990901
Vehicle Registration Mark: ***** Get the Vehicle Status Report
Number of Previous Owners: 0

Fuel: Petrol

Even more interesting is the model year of 1999. The last McLaren F1 was completed by the factory in May 1998. Strange, that one.

One person who is frequently correct in his info has speculated that this may be one of Ron Dennis' F1s.

There are a total of 5 F1s known to have the high mirrors including this one.

>8^)
ER

[cho]

munch997 said:

cho said:

i saw it parked opposite what used to be the Lowndes(now Jumerei something). It was at night and i couldn't believe it as the only other one i had seen was many moons ago near Finchley when i saw one of the prototypes, XP1 i think.

on a different car saw a nice blue Pagani on the embankment(london) this morning. Wasn't making enough noise though!

when did you see the F1??
and zonda is my favourite car!! the F version, but i love those things!! hope thats a regular, though i doubt it?

saw the pictured f1 a few years ago so assume that the owner must live there. I used to work just around the corner and had seen it parked up a couple of times in the area. the prototype I saw in finchley was over ten years ago and had xp1 or something all down the side. the f1 was officially on sale by then which was why I was surprised to see it.

the pagani I saw was very clean! stuck in traffic though so I don't think there was any chance to rev!

[Peloton25]

Walkaround video of the 'F1 MCL' car:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOraUAdFWPw

@cho - what colour was the XP you saw?

>8^)
ER

[cho]

Peloton25 said:

Walkaround video of the 'F1 MCL' car:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOraUAdFWPw

@cho - what colour was the XP you saw?

>8^)
ER

It was the 'standard' silver colour same as F1 MCL. Just had scripting down the side. It was heading towards central London (passing waitrose) just after the north circular junction.

[Peloton25]

Cool - XP3 was the silver prototype. Gordon Murray owns it now.

>8^)
ER

[JayKaybi]

I saw F1 MCL as well... Nick Mason's GTR was the first I'd seen on the road, then headed back to London from Wilton and spotted this car. Really topped off my day.

[edo]

Just spotted the same car in Guildford today.

[Henry Hawthorne]

ilovevolvo said:

spydersingh said:

IIRC, looking at that Mac, the wing mirrors are too high for a production model so I'm guessing its a prototype.

No a normal road car Flemke's blue f1 has high (Bmw Z1 from memory) mirrors and a few others too
looks nice with them up there too

Russ

Didn't Flemke move the position of the mirrors?