Senna at Geneva

[Simon T]

Thom said:

flemke said:

Don't overlook the third explanation: that a substantial portion of the marketplace have incredibly bad taste, and McLaren are being commercial in offering something to them.

Yes, the market is always the good excuse.
Two weeks down the line they will spit out some meaningless 3 seater orange SUV and some folks (not you) will come up with "well it's just what the market wants".
Did Bruce McLaren care about what the market wanted when he set out to design and build his own race cars?
Did Ettore Bugatti care about what the market wanted when he continually accumulated massive debts to build his cars and lay the foundations for his legend?
Did Ferrucio Lamborgini care about what the market wanted when he poured much of his hard earned cash from building tractors into building financially unsuccessful supercars?

The "market" leads to nothing but the bdising of respectable names into meaningless brands producing objects of social status that gradually lose relationship with what the founders set out when they took massive risks to actually create something that back then broke actual boundaries. The market never takes risks - people do.
In the case of the McLaren Senna, we have a blatant case of adding insult to injury. Give me a Bristol Fighter anyday over this ridiculous plasticky/carbon-ish patchwork only a tasteless billionaire teenager would dream of.

Edited by Thom on Tuesday 13th March 22:34

Seems to sum it up...