RE: McLaren 720S Spider: The Long Read
Discussion
easytiger123 said:
Keep trying to talk myself into buying the coupe version. It's a fk of a lot of car for the £170k ish that barely used ones are being offered at. The looks have not grown on me (is there another car that is more colour and spec dependent on influencing the look than a 720? Some look pretty good and others just gopping), but the performance and relative practicality are very tempting. The horror stories about the odd total lemon have thus far put me off. I guess buying one with slightly higher mileage is probably the way to go.
As a serial McLaren owner my advice would be buy a 12-18 month old one. Any issues ought to have been resolved and there is still plenty of factory warranty to sort any others. Most the dealers are great at sorting any issues. At this age a 720 is bargain for the ability!Great read. There seems to be a sense that a £300,000 cat should be built like a W124 E Class. I remember watching Monkey Harris's video on his Ferrari FF where he chucks a bit of chromed plastic trim into the back seat with the comment that it's a Ferrari. Truth is there will have been far more budget spent on this stuff on a Golf or a Focus than smaller specialist companies will ever have, even when they have access to a parent company's parts bin. Hence most £300,000 cars will have niggles. Also quite happy as a Scot that the 720s is British/English just like I am quite happy that Andy Murray is Scottish/British. Makes perfect sense to me. What tickles me is that if you head right at the McLaren roundabout you are in a humble bit of Woking, just near my uncle's old house. It's a spaceship that had landed just by suburbia.
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garyhun said:
Seeing as you pulled me up for calling McLaren an English company, I’ll just state that the words you are looking for are ‘losing’ and ‘fair’.
Glad to be of educational assistance
I always try to expand my knowledge at every opportunity, although I normally like to be taught by experts not a teaching assistant. but thanks for your efforts. Glad to be of educational assistance
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WJNB said:
Fabulous car, fabulous colour, pity the interior is a bit kit-car with overwhelming acres of bleak grey Alcantra stuff. But hurrah it's so BRITISH wave the St Georges flag everybody.
Scotsman checking in.Pull your head out of your arse.
Wammer said:
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WJNB said:
Fabulous car, fabulous colour, pity the interior is a bit kit-car with overwhelming acres of bleak grey Alcantra stuff. But hurrah it's so BRITISH wave the St Georges flag everybody.
Scotsman checking in.Pull your head out of your arse.
Gameface said:
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garyhun said:
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garyhun said:
Gameface said:
CraigyMc said:
WJNB said:
Fabulous car, fabulous colour, pity the interior is a bit kit-car with overwhelming acres of bleak grey Alcantra stuff. But hurrah it's so BRITISH wave the St Georges flag everybody.
Scotsman checking in.Pull your head out of your arse.
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