RE: McLaren 720S Spider: The Long Read

[mikey k]

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!

[Gorbyrev]

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.

[anonymous-user]

E65Ross said:

theDOCTOR said:

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.

You shouldn't be so picky, you should just be willing to learn from anyone.

Looks like he needs comprehension lessons too.

[theDOCTOR]

garyhun said:

Looks like he needs comprehension lessons too.

me no understand

[andrewparker]

mrclav said:

Some interesting info there - 300 miles on a single tank? Not bad at all.

How big is the fuel tank?

[theDOCTOR]

andrewparker said:

How big is the fuel tank?

Its the same as the 650S i think , 71-2 litres

[Wammer]

theDOCTOR said:

E65Ross said:

theDOCTOR said:

garyhun said:

theDOCTOR said:

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.

It’s English anyway

I think you will find more than half owned by Mumtalakat Holding Company, as English as jellied eels (Not!!!)

For the purposes of this discussion, built in Surrey = English

for the purpose of reality its Arabian

if you say so. It doesn't matter that it's designed in England, built in England by English employees then

My cousin works there and he's scottish and a lot of his colleagues are from mainland Europe . and you could also say the same about landrover, morgan,lotus etc, Next you will be saying the queen mum founded it ?

So by that logic that would make Ferrari Dutch as they are owned by a Holding company based in Holland, hence Ferrar N.V.

[Gameface]

Wammer said:

theDOCTOR said:

E65Ross said:

theDOCTOR said:

garyhun said:

theDOCTOR said:

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.

It’s English anyway

I think you will find more than half owned by Mumtalakat Holding Company, as English as jellied eels (Not!!!)

For the purposes of this discussion, built in Surrey = English

for the purpose of reality its Arabian

if you say so. It doesn't matter that it's designed in England, built in England by English employees then

My cousin works there and he's scottish and a lot of his colleagues are from mainland Europe . and you could also say the same about landrover, morgan,lotus etc, Next you will be saying the queen mum founded it ?

So by that logic that would make Ferrari Dutch as they are owned by a Holding company based in Holland, hence Ferrar N.V.

If the clog fits...

[theDOCTOR]

Gameface said:

Wammer said:

theDOCTOR said:

E65Ross said:

theDOCTOR said:

garyhun said:

theDOCTOR said:

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.

It’s English anyway

I think you will find more than half owned by Mumtalakat Holding Company, as English as jellied eels (Not!!!)

For the purposes of this discussion, built in Surrey = English

for the purpose of reality its Arabian

if you say so. It doesn't matter that it's designed in England, built in England by English employees then

My cousin works there and he's scottish and a lot of his colleagues are from mainland Europe . and you could also say the same about landrover, morgan,lotus etc, Next you will be saying the queen mum founded it ?

So by that logic that would make Ferrari Dutch as they are owned by a Holding company based in Holland, hence Ferrar N.V.

If the clog fits...

Would explain the performances in F1 over recent years, I think a breakfast of hash cakes is having an effect ?

[E65Ross]

theDOCTOR said:

Would explain the performances in F1 over recent years, I think a breakfast of hash cakes is having an effect ?

I think you're the one needing to see a doctor

[anonymous-user]

E65Ross said:

I think you're the one needing to see a doctor

Inactive for months, reappears to troll Mac thread with outdated geography lexicon.

Perfectly normal behaviour for PH

[theDOCTOR]

Brooking10 said:

Inactive for months, reappears to troll Mac thread with outdated geography lexicon.

Perfectly normal behaviour for PH

outdated geography lexicon, you mean like its English, surely its British old chap