RE: McLaren Senna GTR - first specs!

[Ollieb7]

Hard to keep up, almost boring!

[GranCab]

They've taken a (Gold) Leaf out of the Lotus Book of Marketing ....

[breadvan]

Oh, look, DFS are having a sale......

[Butter Face]

That rear end

Wow.

[Leggy]

I’m sure they’ll sell all of them. We should be applauding McLaren they are a British success, and this is Pistonheads not Mumsnet.
Surely it’s their job to develop and sell their products, what are they expected to wait 5 years and then bring out a new one?

[sungsam]

I would like to read/hear how the designers came up with this finish, and wonder if there are any special bits to help rich but perhaps not born racers limit possible track accidents.
There are plenty of customers out there for these cars with $ £ and other currency, well, maybe the rouble is not accepted,. but McLaren are doing the right thing to help them spend it, plus most of the funds go McLaren UK. It can only be a good thing. Even if the looks divide opinion.

[Mr E]

Lightly amused at the comments about the way it looks.

The engineers involved do not give a st how it looks, they care how it goes.
If it went faster in bright pink, it would be pink.

[Gandahar]

Butter Face said:

That rear end

Wow.

To quote Black Adder

"It has a baboons bottom my Lord"

Captain Redbeard Rum " I wager that prolapsed rear has not done 30 laps of Monza whilst being attacked by the dreadful spindly killer fish?"

"You have a womans diffuser"

Edited by Gandahar on Friday 2nd November 18:22

[Gandahar]

Mr E said:

Lightly amused at the comments about the way it looks.

The engineers involved do not give a st how it looks, they care how it goes.
If it went faster in bright pink, it would be pink.

"Hey Guys, for the next 18 minutes before the mouse click I'm Sccchhhmeeeee ....."

[Streetrod]

Saw my first Senna in McLaren London yesterday and I have to say in person and in black as this one was, its road presence was second to none. I am now convinced.

[Macboy]

blueg33 said:

chrisironside said:

Just goes to show, you can't polish a turd.

To be fair they haven't tried to polish it, they have just added more turd

Quote of the day!

[Mr E]

Although, given the likely cost, why not just buy a race car?

[SidewaysSi]

Another day, another new Mc.

[donteatpeople]

Phil Dicky said:

RushDom said:

No thanks, I'm going to wait for the Senna GTR Longtail.

But then again...why get that? Why not just wait for the Senna GTR Longtail Carbon MSO Edition?

Etc, etc, etc.

Not just McLaren who do this..but Lamborghini and Ferrari are experts too.

Edited by Phil Dicky on Friday 2nd November 16:49

I can't actually think of a single manufacturer that doesn't release different variants of every car they make. It's a very logical thing to do.

[Evolved]

Leggy said:

I’m sure they’ll sell all of them. We should be applauding McLaren they are a British success, and this is Pistonheads not Mumsnet.
Surely it’s their job to develop and sell their products, what are they expected to wait 5 years and then bring out a new one?

So because we all love cars, oh, and they’re from Britain, we all have to praise every thing they bring out? Hmmm.

It looks odd as a road car, even worse as a track only car! Sometimes you have to call a turd, a turd, no matter how much sparkly stuff it has stuck to it.

[anonymous-user]

Leggy said:

I’m sure they’ll sell all of them. We should be applauding McLaren they are a British success, and this is Pistonheads not Mumsnet.
Surely it’s their job to develop and sell their products, what are they expected to wait 5 years and then bring out a new one?

I agree that we should all applaud McLaren's success but I'd argue it's precisely because we are all passionate about cars and or driving and or racing that this constant stream of sold out, vajazzled trinkets for the ultra rich to keep in storage is getting, well, rather boring. For all the marketing McLaren still haven't produced any lap times; everything else is just marketing guff.

[Gus265]

I just laughed when I saw this for all the reasons given above! Some very funny comments btw! I love McLaren but I am getting a bit bored of the same basic car being shovelled out in slightly different formats depending on the day of the week.
Porsche would never let this happen with the 911

[NJJ]

Isn't this the car the Senna should have been from the outset? I thought the brief from Senna was the ultimate expression of what McLaren knew about race cars? It does dilute the series a little if we now get this GTR version. Nothing worse than when a manufacturer launches a car and then seemingly keeps tweaks/improvements back so they can then launch an x-rated version 6-months later.


They would have done better by launching the car and offering owners the chance to upgrade their existing car if the engineers found developments later in the model life. Would make each owner feel like they were part of a special factory development programme that way improving residuals and retaining exclusivity.

[breadvan]

Leggy said:

what are they expected to wait 5 years and then bring out a new one?

Why not, that’s what they do with dealerships.

[threespires]

So many 'negative waves' every time a new McLaren is announced.
Good for them I say, a successful high tech British company that's muscled into the established market & upped the game with some amazing limited edition cars such as this one.