RE: McLaren 720S Track Pack: PH Trade-Off

[cayman-black]

I,m looking in the classifieds now.

[nicholasm]

13.3mpg for the 599. Let's take the journey from the beginning of the article and assume it starts & ends in Birmingham. That's a round trip of around 2,200 miles before taking into account the track day, so the petrol bill could end up going into four figures.

Still, what a way to burn money... in a detuned Enzo engine. Sounds good to me.

[E65Ross]

High Roller said:

"After all, if you can afford a six-figure sum to spend on your next car, chances are you can probably afford one that starts with a two"

So if you can afford to spend £100K on a car you can actually afford to spend £200K? What absolute rot! Who writes this cr4p?

Edited by High Roller on Monday 19th November 13:01

Agreed. Have a couple of friends, and a father, who have spent £100k or thereabouts on a car. There's a big difference between than, and spending double!

[Mantis1964]

But the red car is truly ugly... I mean what were they thinking?

[KillianB4]

Robert-nszl1 said:

Just thinking about this, wouldn't a better comparison be a 2013 12C? Bit over 600hp and for the money you can get a low mileage 5 year old example. Head the article, 'Is it really worth suffering the depreciation'. I bet to mortals the driving experience probably isn't that different, and both have challenging looks (12C bland, 720S a bit odd)....

Good point. Heres a nice one: https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...

And if you fancy having the close same power as the 720 in a 12C, then that is easily taken care of. Plenty customers in the US seem to be doing these or similar:

https://www.amsperformance.com/cart/alpha-mclaren-...

Combine it with a nice exhaust and away you go.