RE: McLaren Senna GTR: Geneva 2018
Discussion
All I can see that front splitter doing is sweeping rubbing chippings and stones straight into the bottom of the car. 
uzzled:
I know its all about grip etc. but both the front splitter and the rear diffuser seem to be the perfect examples of just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Hideous.
uzzled: I know its all about grip etc. but both the front splitter and the rear diffuser seem to be the perfect examples of just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Hideous.
The Hypno-Toad said:
All I can see that front splitter doing is sweeping rubbing chippings and stones straight into the bottom of the car. uzzled:
I know its all about grip etc. but both the front splitter and the rear diffuser seem to be the perfect examples of just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Hideous.
What's the bet on a replacement CF front splitter after it's been chipped/scratched to fook on a trackday? £20-£30K? uzzled: I know its all about grip etc. but both the front splitter and the rear diffuser seem to be the perfect examples of just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Hideous.
Although seeing one of these in a pit lane, dirty and with war wounds aplenty would be pretty cool.
Just wow.
Yeah I'm sure when it wins a race, all the naysayers will think it's stunning
...not.A whole generation of new car enthusiasts can now buy their first car, go straight to Halfords do whatever the hell they want and be safe in the knowledge they can use this and it's compromised road going cousin as inspiration and justification and shut everyone up.
Brave work McLaren, very brave.
HighwayStar said:
jon- said:
Give me the Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro any day.
Money is it will be faster too. All without looking like it's been pre-crashed.
And so the Valkyrie AMR should be... it's 3 x the price!!! So it better be. Money is it will be faster too. All without looking like it's been pre-crashed.
McLaren aren't claiming the Senna GTR will be thee fastest thing out there. Just the fastest McLaren.
A 5 year old can see the Valkyrie has been designed from the ground up to have the level of aero it does. This mess is just an even larger diffuser and splitter bolted onto a car that already had larger front/rear overhangs/wing/splitter etc bolted on to 720S.
McLaren had nothing on the table when the next gen Aston and Merc hyper cars were announced and rather than being mature and concentrating on the product they have (like Ferrari etc) they panicked and made the Senna monstrosity. It screams insecurity that they can't stay out of every pissing contest. Still, a Chinese billionaire created every five days so any old tat will get bought if it's expensive enough.
I quote:
"The McLaren Senna is the personification of McLaren’s DNA at its most extreme, creating the purest connection between car and driver. It is the most track-focused road car we have ever built, and it will set the fastest lap times of any McLaren to date. That is what has driven us to build a track car that is unashamedly without compromise. One that is legalised for road use, but not sanitised to suit it. Nothing else matters but to deliver the most intense driving experience around a circuit."
http://cars.mclaren.com/ultimate-series/mclaren-se...
It clearly was built with compromise and wasn't the ultimate track car as the GTR now upstages it? The trouble is when you keep bringing out what may be termed 'the ultimate whatever', you can't then bring out a 'whatever +1' because what do you then say to all the people who thought they were buying the best available for a particular purpose? I bet it's still sold out by now and yes, I expect someone will make it road legal.
So has Mr andy74b got an order for this or the standard Senna do you think?
"The McLaren Senna is the personification of McLaren’s DNA at its most extreme, creating the purest connection between car and driver. It is the most track-focused road car we have ever built, and it will set the fastest lap times of any McLaren to date. That is what has driven us to build a track car that is unashamedly without compromise. One that is legalised for road use, but not sanitised to suit it. Nothing else matters but to deliver the most intense driving experience around a circuit."
http://cars.mclaren.com/ultimate-series/mclaren-se...
It clearly was built with compromise and wasn't the ultimate track car as the GTR now upstages it? The trouble is when you keep bringing out what may be termed 'the ultimate whatever', you can't then bring out a 'whatever +1' because what do you then say to all the people who thought they were buying the best available for a particular purpose? I bet it's still sold out by now and yes, I expect someone will make it road legal.
So has Mr andy74b got an order for this or the standard Senna do you think?
cookie1600 said:
I quote:
"The McLaren Senna is the personification of McLaren’s DNA at its most extreme, creating the purest connection between car and driver. It is the most track-focused road car we have ever built, and it will set the fastest lap times of any McLaren to date. That is what has driven us to build a track car that is unashamedly without compromise. One that is legalised for road use, but not sanitised to suit it. Nothing else matters but to deliver the most intense driving experience around a circuit."
http://cars.mclaren.com/ultimate-series/mclaren-se...
It clearly was built with compromise and wasn't the ultimate track car as the GTR now upstages it? The trouble is when you keep bringing out what may be termed 'the ultimate whatever', you can't then bring out a 'whatever +1' because what do you then say to all the people who thought they were buying the best available for a particular purpose? I bet it's still sold out by now and yes, I expect someone will make it road legal.
So has Mr andy74b got an order for this or the standard Senna do you think?
It may help if you read your quote more thoroughly, which clearly states it is legalised for road use...so it is the ultimate track car that they can make that is road legal. They have yet to build another one which outperforms it."The McLaren Senna is the personification of McLaren’s DNA at its most extreme, creating the purest connection between car and driver. It is the most track-focused road car we have ever built, and it will set the fastest lap times of any McLaren to date. That is what has driven us to build a track car that is unashamedly without compromise. One that is legalised for road use, but not sanitised to suit it. Nothing else matters but to deliver the most intense driving experience around a circuit."
http://cars.mclaren.com/ultimate-series/mclaren-se...
It clearly was built with compromise and wasn't the ultimate track car as the GTR now upstages it? The trouble is when you keep bringing out what may be termed 'the ultimate whatever', you can't then bring out a 'whatever +1' because what do you then say to all the people who thought they were buying the best available for a particular purpose? I bet it's still sold out by now and yes, I expect someone will make it road legal.
So has Mr andy74b got an order for this or the standard Senna do you think?
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