Our new automotive pride and joy

[The Surveyor]

After much selling of the family silver (well the Aston Martin, Maserati and TVR) we are now the very proud owners of this little fella:-

[anonymous-user]

Wow! That is really cool. Congratulations. Who gets to drive it first?

[tyrrell]

Looks Fantastic Enjoy your new McLaren nothing like it

[likesachange]

Looks superb.

A nice and compact supercar.

The 5*0 Mclarens seem to be doing very well from what I can gather. Be interesting to see what the best seller was over last 12 months, just as well the 720 is out to put more of a clear gap between the models.

Enjoy

[Targarama]

Lovely, enjoy!

[The Surveyor]

Cheers guys, it was a dealer-stock car from McLaren Manchester (who have been very good despite the best efforts of the DVLA) with the right colour, spec and the right price. I did ask them to change the seat-belts to orange to match the brakes and to add a splash of colour to the interior but I'm really pleased with it.

[CitySlicker]

likesachange said:

Looks superb.

A nice and compact supercar.


Enjoy

Nice it is compact it ain't. Wider than a H2 Hummer!

[The Surveyor]

CitySlicker said:

likesachange said:

Looks superb.

A nice and compact supercar.


Enjoy

Nice it is compact it ain't. Wider than a H2 Hummer!

They are deceptively big, but it does still comfortably go through the boggo-standard modern single garage door. With the mirrors folded, they're no wider than an Aston Vantage.

[CitySlicker]

The Surveyor said:

They are deceptively big, but it does still comfortably go through the boggo-standard modern single garage door. With the mirrors folded, they're no wider than an Aston Vantage.

Do you find it intuitive placing the car on the road?

[SDB660]

Congratulations! Looks superb.

[johnnyreggae]

The Surveyor said:

it does still comfortably go through the boggo-standard modern single garage door.

Oh no ! Your car looks lovely but last summer all the research I did into a 570GT said they would not fit so I had to drop the idea

So just to be clear you are getting your car easily into a garage with a 210 cm door ?

[likesachange]

CitySlicker said:

Nice it is compact it ain't. Wider than a H2 Hummer!

what modern supercar isn't?

certainly looks more compact than most ?

[The Surveyor]

CitySlicker said:

The Surveyor said:

They are deceptively big, but it does still comfortably go through the boggo-standard modern single garage door. With the mirrors folded, they're no wider than an Aston Vantage.

Do you find it intuitive placing the car on the road?

In reality, it doesn't feel any wider than the Vantage.

[The Surveyor]

johnnyreggae said:

The Surveyor said:

it does still comfortably go through the boggo-standard modern single garage door.

Oh no ! Your car looks lovely but last summer all the research I did into a 570GT said they would not fit so I had to drop the idea

So just to be clear you are getting your car easily into a garage with a 210 cm door ?

The structural brick-to-brick opening is slightly wider but the doors are circa 210 cm clear frame to frame. I've not got a front-on photo of the 570s in the garage but here it is in the garage:-



And this is the garage from the outside partly obscured by some nasty old Italian snotter....



Typical standard garage doors, on a typical modern (5 year old) home.

[johnnyreggae]

Dear Mrs Reggae - guess what !

(thanks)

[M838T]

Congrats, enjoy it in good health.

Hope the Manchester boys looked after you well.

[anonymous-user]

The Surveyor said:

ahhh

[trawler]

likesachange said:

what modern supercar isn't?

They are all too fat. That is the problem with most new cars. Don't get me wrong I love supercars, but would never buy one. There are lots of other cars that fall into the same category, e.g. M5. I would never enjoy crawling along B roads scratching the the side of the car on hedges to let some SUV drive by. Give me a small car with a reasonable amount of power. Much more fun for a cross country blast.

[WDISMYL]

I think you might be in the wrong forum then.....and I thought Victor Meldrew had died?


Lovely car.. enjoy.

Edited by WDISMYL on Tuesday 16th May 18:33

[trawler]

WDISMYL said:

I think you might be in the wrong forum then.....and I thought Victor Meldrew had died?


Lovely car.. enjoy.

Edited by WDISMYL on Tuesday 16th May 18:33

No alive & kicking. Love these cars that's why I visit.

Just think the trend for bigger cars spoils the driving on most uk roads.