Anyone else no interest in hypercars?

[skinny]

I'm the same. No interest. I just find hypercars, as said above, a bit pointless and vulgar. There is an argument that this is just because i can't afford one. But they seem more suited to showing off around Knightsbridge than anything else.

As for the engineering, i don't see anything special there. It's blank cheque engineering, nothing clever. How many radiators does the veyron have - 10? Something like that. 1000bhp power for no other reason than its a big round number. This is marketing not engineering.

A lottery win would see me with maybe 20 interesting cars from the 50's to the 90's - probably for the same money as one new hypercar. Wouldn't get many likes on my YouTube channel tho

Edited by skinny on Sunday 21st July 14:53

[Crafty_]

I've no interest either, even if I had the money I wouldn't buy one - I'd rather go and find half a dozen cars thare a more interesting (to me anyway).

[CanAm]

Billy_Whizzzz said:

Thanks CanAm

[Export56]

I agree zero interest in lambos etc, also they seem to be driven by yanni types, that doesnt help. Then again, I find the same about F1, have zero interest in that, i would be much more excited parked next to a mint mk1 scirocco for example.

[The Li-ion King]

Billy_Whizzzz said:

CanAm said:

Billy_Whizzzz said:

Lamborghini
Maclaren

It's amazing the number of posters who can cope with the complexity of Italian spelling but struggle with a British name!

It’s more do do with typing on an iPhone without glasses. I know how to spell McLaren, thanks, am I’m not struggling. Curious that you’re so offended that it’s ‘British’. Not quite sure what that has to do with it, but I can guess.

Easily done in this age of Auto Correct on tablets and phones.

This Maclaren

Doesn't use a capital L and is one word, so devices will default from



This one

As regards hypercars, out of the price range of most of us mere mortals who don't have a high paying job in finance or law, or don't have a YouTube channel. Plus roads are so awful, where else can it be taken apart from the track?

Edited by The Li-ion King on Sunday 21st July 19:41

[CanAm]

The Li-ion King said:

Easily done in this age of Auto Correct on tablets and phones.

This Maclaren
.......
Doesn't use a capital L and is one word, so devices will default from

This one ........

As regards hypercars, out of the price range of most of us mere mortals who don't have a high paying job in finance or law, or don't have a YouTube channel. Plus roads are so awful, where else can it be taken apart from the track?

The iPhone (used by Billy Whizzzz above) certainly doesn't seem to be very user-friendly according to friends who have them, whereas my cheap Chinese phone is very quick at adding frequently used words, like McLaren (pops up as soon as I type "mcl"),

BTW, there is a McLaren 720S which I have seen out and about locally.

[CABC]

my old iPhone auto corrects "mcl" to "McLaren"
just sayin'

[CanAm]

CABC said:

my old iPhone auto corrects "mcl" to "McLaren"
just sayin'

So maybe the iPhone users are typing "macl"!

[Algarve]

skinny said:

I'm the same. No interest. I just find hypercars, as said above, a bit pointless and vulgar. There is an argument that this is just because i can't afford one

I think it would be a reasonable argument as how can you justify the 911 you drive?

I guess you bought it because you wanted it, and you can afford it without thinking about it. Which is the exact same situation a buyer of a La Ferrari was in?

[whp1983]

The Hypercars I sort of get... it’s the track special stuff (senna, FXX, Vulcan etc) I don’t get.

If I had that money I’d want a proper race car and to compete.

[Mr Tidy]

EDLT said:

Interviews to buy a car? Worked well for Bristol.

Well for a while it may have - but Bristols seem conspicuous by their absence now!

[Boydie88]

If it means they get the budget to improve on the more common vehicles in their line ups, I'm all for it. But I'm much more interested in the thing Dallara have put out than anything else over the last few years.
I like what Lotus have put forward but the biggest plus of it to me is that hopefully it does sell well and they can continue to make awesome more realistic dream cars.

[RDMcG]

I am interested in a sort of spectator way because some of the technology they use may later apply to more obtainable cars. Great that people can afford them

[TheGuru]

I don’t have that much interest really, I do like Ferrari, Porsche and Lamborghini, a lot of heritage and Motorsport history, but all these other weird and expensive ones I don’t have much time for.

[AussieFozzy]

I've got an interest in the engineering for sure but I've come to the conclusion all fast cars are a bit pointless.
I currently have a Fiesta ST. Its a good laugh, feels quick without being it and i take it on track as often as possible.

Living in Australia with our restrictive speed laws i cant help but think driving anything fast on the road would just be a chore. One quick stab of the throttle and its bye bye car and bye bye licence. Take a super quick car on track and you are constantly catching people and going silly speeds which risk your neck. Not to mention most 'fast' cars that come to track days cook their brakes within a couple of laps and chew through a set of tires per session.

I just want my driving to be fun thanks, i have very little interest in the size of your willy.

[anonymous-user]

whp1983 said:

The Hypercars I sort of get... it’s the track special stuff (senna, FXX, Vulcan etc) I don’t get.

If I had that money I’d want a proper race car and to compete.

I get it totally. Why have a proper race car with all the faff when you can own a Vulcan and swan around the world having a laugh? Besides, if you have that sort of cash you’ll likely already have a fe options

[SidewaysSi]

Zero interest either. And rhey aren't much fun to drive on road either in my experience.

I bet a MacLaren is more engaging than a McLaren on a shopping trip.

[anonymous-user]

I enjoy them from a technical perspective, but I think now there are simply too many of them and they don't offer that much more than the regular cars.

If you think about cars like the 959 and F40, or the F1, F50 and enzo, they seemed to stand alone at the time, far ahead of regular models in terms of price and performance and they didn't come along that often so they were real events when they did.

Nowadays I feel like there's always one being lined up. As an example it feels like in the time unit of 'one old hypercar' McLaren alone will have done the P1, Senna and Speedtail. The 720s is already so close to the P1 in terms of track times and costs a lot less.

[Jamescrs]

I don't really have much interest in them because I'll never be able to afford one. I kind of feel the same about most Lamborghini's and Ferrari's.

Porsche is kind of my limit of expense, even though I'll never own a GT3 RS they still have more interest for me, maybe because I can afford one of the lower end models

[aeropilot]

LimaDelta said:

I actually have zero interest in any exotica really but that is more of a minority opinion around here. Even given an unlimited car buying budget I don't think there would be a single Ferrari/Lambo/Mclaren or whatever in my fleet.

Yep, same here, but then I'm an old git, so anything 'exotic' that's newer than about 1980 is of little interest to me. From a purist engineers' point of view I can appreciate Gordon Murray's McLaren F1, but I could probably list 100 or more older cars that would be ahead of it on any dream garage lottery win list.