RE: Senna 'Carbon Theme' for Geneva

RE: Senna 'Carbon Theme' for Geneva

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RGILL

42 posts

245 months

Wednesday 28th February 2018
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There is no doubting this car will be fast around the ring, probably the fastest road car ever. But it won't get anywhere near that 956. That car made over 5000 lbs of downforce. It could drive upside down. And then you have huge slicks. For the way the Senna looks, it better go 10 seconds faster around the ring than the GT2 RS.

Quickmoose

4,482 posts

122 months

Wednesday 28th February 2018
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That’s some mighty fine glitter you've rolled that in....

Jesus Christ

That’s supposed to be style?!!

anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 28th February 2018
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I'm a bit confused by this. I thought the Senna was about the ruthless pursuit of performance. WTF is this? Congratulations on your Senna allocation, would you like us to vajazzle it for you?

Isn't the bodywork all carbon anyway? I'm assuming there's more to this than just not painting it, like the first/outer layer being a perfect aesthetic weave... which begs the question if the pretty panel is the same weight/performance as the paint grade one?

Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 28th February 22:48

The Vambo

6,643 posts

140 months

Wednesday 28th February 2018
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Quickmoose said:
That’s some mighty fine glitter you've rolled that in....

Jesus Christ

That’s supposed to be style?!!
I read all your posts on the Senna in a 7 year old girl having a tantrum voice.

scenario8

6,554 posts

178 months

Wednesday 28th February 2018
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Some Gump said:
Digger said:
You do realise Yipper is PH’s pet parrot?
Is he not a bot?
Yipper is either a bot or (one way or the other) PH staff.

Either way it really is a disgrace that the account exists. Sadly his tiresome presence generates responses and will no doubt continue to.

Housey

2,076 posts

226 months

Wednesday 28th February 2018
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Horrible looking thing, not changed my view since the first time I pissed myself in laughter seeing it for the first time....then cried when I realised it wasn't April 1st.

corozin

2,680 posts

270 months

Thursday 1st March 2018
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I guess it's up to McLaren how they cultivate thier customers, and down to the punters to buy the stuff they want, but it seems a bit crap to me that the car isn't even released and already McLaren are announcing "exclusive" limited editions with even more carbon fibre tinsel added at great cost to cars which mostly are unlikely to be driven.

If buying one of these things isn't a definition of rich man's folly, I don't know what is. But at the same time you can't deny there are lots of manufacturers milking thier wealthy customers in this way at the moment and McLaren are hardly the most exploitative of them by any means.

Robster

1,402 posts

176 months

Thursday 1st March 2018
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Krikkit said:
Yipper said:
The constant barrage of old models with new lipstick and a higher price every few weeks is starting to get old.

McLaren need to take a breather. Their sales growth has crashed to a halt and they're not gonna solve it by bugging everyone with a minor new model every couple of weeks.
LOL, great troll post.
Yep , it's so good reading his/her posts because you can completely ignore and go the opposite way which is generally the more sensible opinion

Robster

1,402 posts

176 months

Thursday 1st March 2018
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British Beef said:
I think this car in full racing spec could get closer to the Stefan Bellof record around the Nurburgring than any other road based car!

6:11 was set in 83 with the Porsche 956 - that car had 650 hp and weighed 800kg

More power, modern gearboxes, adaptive suspension (soft on bump bits, low on the straights etc), modern tyres and aerodynamics

Make a lap time on the Nordschleife which is corrected for Bellofs slightly shorted 12.9 miles lap, borrow Alonso for the stunt!!


That would really be a spectacle to warrant any price they ask for this machine.
Flemke what do you think Having ordered one ?

gigglebug

2,611 posts

121 months

Thursday 1st March 2018
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scenario8 said:
Some Gump said:
Digger said:
You do realise Yipper is PH’s pet parrot?
Is he not a bot?
Yipper is either a bot or (one way or the other) PH staff.

Either way it really is a disgrace that the account exists. Sadly his tiresome presence generates responses and will no doubt continue to.
I truly cannot believe that PH would actively allow a staff member to respond to the threads where folks are asking for advice in the manner that Yipper does especially when the advice given is clearly made up and often completely wrong.

Having someone post dumb opinions on the subject matters that are subjective with the intention to elicit responces is one thing, giving out made up and/or incorrect information on specific topics would be another and one I just can't see happening.

gigglebug

2,611 posts

121 months

Thursday 1st March 2018
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subirg said:
You can put £300k lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig... Blimey, the base car hasn’t even been made yet and McLaren is tapping up owners for hundreds of thousands of pounds for extras. Wonderful.
Why would this be a surprise? A high percentage of customers will be actively seeking the services of MSO to individualise their example because that is what they desire, much the same as they have done with all of the previous models that have been realeased, so it's not like McLaren have to tap anyone up for the extra services is it?

There is also nothing in the article to indicate that this example is in addition to the initial 500 allocation so I would assume that it is just part of it and MSO cleverly advertising the type of thing that they can do before the majority of customers have specced their car.

gigglebug

2,611 posts

121 months

Thursday 1st March 2018
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corozin said:
I guess it's up to McLaren how they cultivate thier customers, and down to the punters to buy the stuff they want, but it seems a bit crap to me that the car isn't even released and already McLaren are announcing "exclusive" limited editions with even more carbon fibre tinsel added at great cost to cars which mostly are unlikely to be driven.

If buying one of these things isn't a definition of rich man's folly, I don't know what is. But at the same time you can't deny there are lots of manufacturers milking thier wealthy customers in this way at the moment and McLaren are hardly the most exploitative of them by any means.
http://media.mclarenautomotive.com/en-gb/releases/...

Explains it better than me.

“The McLaren Senna customers in the process of specifying their own, personalised cars are almost without exception commissioning an elevated level of MSO content, so we are definitely appealing to our target audience,” explained Ansar Ali, Managing Director, McLaren Special Operations.

Edited by gigglebug on Thursday 1st March 07:33

RacerMike

4,192 posts

210 months

Thursday 1st March 2018
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British Beef said:
I think this car in full racing spec could get closer to the Stefan Bellof record around the Nurburgring than any other road based car!

6:11 was set in 83 with the Porsche 956 - that car had 650 hp and weighed 800kg

More power, modern gearboxes, adaptive suspension (soft on bump bits, low on the straights etc), modern tyres and aerodynamics

Make a lap time on the Nordschleife which is corrected for Bellofs slightly shorted 12.9 miles lap, borrow Alonso for the stunt!!


That would really be a spectacle to warrant any price they ask for this machine.
Not a chance. That would make it 30s a lap quicker than the current road car record and significantly quicker than a GT3 car. Which it definitely won’t be.

And it looks even more of a joke than the non carbon one. Blue, geeen and yellow. Wow

gigglebug

2,611 posts

121 months

Thursday 1st March 2018
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fblm said:
I'm assuming there's more to this than just not painting it, like the first/outer layer being a perfect aesthetic weave...
This you would have thought. There are some pretty complex shapes to get lined up as well so can see why it would take a great deal of Man hours to get it right. Bare carbon added a lot to a Zonda's and Koenigsegg price as well so it is not without precedant.

E65Ross

34,946 posts

211 months

Thursday 1st March 2018
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RacerMike said:
Not a chance. That would make it 30s a lap quicker than the current road car record and significantly quicker than a GT3 car. Which it definitely won’t be.

And it looks even more of a joke than the non carbon one. Blue, geeen and yellow. Wow
You're forgetting the 6:11 is a shorter lap than the current lap, so it wouldn't have to be 30s faster, probably nearer 15s or so. If put on slicks it certainly would be in with a shout.

Rawwr

22,722 posts

233 months

Thursday 1st March 2018
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It's MSO, I don't know why some people are so horrified by it. MSO's purpose is to allow people with little taste or modesty to show the world how little taste and modesty they have.

Has anyone ever seen anything tasteful or subtle emerge from MSO treatment?

1781cc

575 posts

93 months

Thursday 1st March 2018
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TIGA84

5,204 posts

230 months

Thursday 1st March 2018
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Rawwr said:
It's MSO, I don't know why some people are so horrified by it. MSO's purpose is to allow people with little taste or modesty to show the world how little taste and modesty they have.

Has anyone ever seen anything tasteful or subtle emerge from MSO treatment?


This isn't all bad.

SN Muffin

170 posts

78 months

Thursday 1st March 2018
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This looks awesome ! Although what is it with McLaren and the brake calipers, why not have some yellow ones rather then this ( I think its teal correct me if Im wrong).They did the same with the original press release photo's, an orange car with blue fking calipers.

SN Muffin

170 posts

78 months

Thursday 1st March 2018
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after looking again, I have realised that its green and im a . but still doesn't suit.