Bought a 720s! My 1st "supercar" Wish me luck!!

[AstonExige720]

bomb said:

I've been following this thread since it started. I was very very close to buying a McLaren, and after a lot of reading and hearing reports about corrosion, electrical issues, and dealership woes, I chose not to buy one.

I love your car and its colour etc, but I am so glad I backed off, just at the right time. It was so tempting.

I very much appreciate your thread as its given me a very open and honest insight into your own ownership experience, to date.

Keep posting please, as I'd love to hear more about your car in the future.

Thankyou.

I honestly think you’re missing out on one of the best if not the best driving experiences you can have. And with the enslaught of EV's this era is quickly coming to an end. And we're at the pinnacle now. I do not regret buying my McLaren, I’m so glad I did and I have no way made a decision to move on. Since I’ve had my car I’ve joined various supercar clubs and got to know many owners of all the brands. Trust me when I say it, the McLaren owners do not have a worse experience than say Ferrari or Porsche owners, McLaren’s aren’t so much more unreliable, it’s just whenever a McLaren has an issue the story spreads like wildfire, people jumping on the bandwagon. Tell you one thing as well, all the common McLaren issues are annoyances, common problems in other brands include those that leave you stranded by the side of the road. We’ve actually got a pretty good deal with McLaren’s.

Edited by AstonExige720 on Thursday 2nd December 08:37

[AstonExige720]

bomb said:

I may be missing out on the McLaren driving 'experience', but I don't want the extras that go with it.

I want a very reliable car that I can use all year round, and also use it for foreign travel / touring. To that end, I moved my sights to other brands and I found precisely what I was looking for.

This.....

244779884_412977687059792_7830454996487179351_n by Andy B., on Flickr


Its fully loaded with all sorts of technology, goes like stink, very comfortable, and sounds fantastic. Even my wife loves it !!

Totally different car, ones a super GT and ones and out and out supercar. I can see why a McLaren may not appeal if you’re after the Super GT experience. Lovely cars 👍🏼

[AstonExige720]

LeroyLoser said:

bomb said:

AstonExige720 said:

bomb said:

I've been following this thread since it started. I was very very close to buying a McLaren, and after a lot of reading and hearing reports about corrosion, electrical issues, and dealership woes, I chose not to buy one.

I love your car and its colour etc, but I am so glad I backed off, just at the right time. It was so tempting.

I very much appreciate your thread as its given me a very open and honest insight into your own ownership experience, to date.

Keep posting please, as I'd love to hear more about your car in the future.

Thankyou.

I honestly think you’re missing out on one of the best if not the best driving experiences you can have..........( and some other stuff)

Edited by AstonExige720 on Thursday 2nd December 08:37

I may be missing out on the McLaren driving 'experience', but I don't want the extras that go with it.

I want a very reliable car that I can use all year round, and also use it for foreign travel / touring. To that end, I moved my sights to other brands and I found precisely what I was looking for.

This.....

244779884_412977687059792_7830454996487179351_n by Andy B., on Flickr


Its fully loaded with all sorts of technology, goes like stink, very comfortable, and sounds fantastic. Even my wife loves it !!

I did the same, DMS map and their track performance is GT3RS quick, very good cars but a completely different driving experience to the McLaren, a better one for me as i’m not a scalpel man, funny, i actually found it had more drama than the McLaren, such underrated cars but i like that.

I love an AMG, I’ve got an R231 SL63 with the performance pack, it’s my daily, getting on for 600bhp and silly levels of torque. But when I want that exhilarating drive, the scalpel if you like, the 720 is next level. I’m lucky I get to experience both sides, appreciate what they’re both so good at

[AstonExige720]

LeroyLoser said:

AstonExige720 said:

LeroyLoser said:

bomb said:

AstonExige720 said:

bomb said:

I've been following this thread since it started. I was very very close to buying a McLaren, and after a lot of reading and hearing reports about corrosion, electrical issues, and dealership woes, I chose not to buy one.

I love your car and its colour etc, but I am so glad I backed off, just at the right time. It was so tempting.

I very much appreciate your thread as its given me a very open and honest insight into your own ownership experience, to date.

Keep posting please, as I'd love to hear more about your car in the future.

Thankyou.

I honestly think you’re missing out on one of the best if not the best driving experiences you can have..........( and some other stuff)

Edited by AstonExige720 on Thursday 2nd December 08:37

I may be missing out on the McLaren driving 'experience', but I don't want the extras that go with it.

I want a very reliable car that I can use all year round, and also use it for foreign travel / touring. To that end, I moved my sights to other brands and I found precisely what I was looking for.

This.....

244779884_412977687059792_7830454996487179351_n by Andy B., on Flickr


Its fully loaded with all sorts of technology, goes like stink, very comfortable, and sounds fantastic. Even my wife loves it !!

I did the same, DMS map and their track performance is GT3RS quick, very good cars but a completely different driving experience to the McLaren, a better one for me as i’m not a scalpel man, funny, i actually found it had more drama than the McLaren, such underrated cars but i like that.

I love an AMG, I’ve got an R231 SL63 with the performance pack, it’s my daily, getting on for 600bhp and silly levels of torque. But when I want that exhilarating drive, the scalpel if you like, the 720 is next level. I’m lucky I get to experience both sides, appreciate what they’re both so good at

The SL63 R231 is nothing like the GTR, its a 2t bemoth, its more like our S63 coupe which i can assure you is not in the same league as the gtr even with 600hp, great cars like you say and we're lucky to own both but the GTR is 1550kg with 700hp 7:10 sec ring time vs 7:14 for a std 720.

To be fair, not many people know how quick they are, but times arent everything, its about how the car feels to you and if it suits, if you like muscle cars then the gtr is more that, i respect the 720s precision and i suspect its far less tiring doing laps, wasnt to my taste though, thats all.

I wasn’t comparing the SL to the GTR.

The 720 and most McLaren’s however would leave a GTR for dust on any track, including the Ring. McLaren have never officially ran a 720 at the ring. If they did, ie pro-driver, race team support etc, not just a lap on a TF day, it’s a sun 7min car for sure.

[AstonExige720]

Hey all, sorry for the lack of updates, new job has resulted in a lot less time to spend in the internet!!

Still have the 720, now put on just over 10,000 miles and has been relatively trouble free, just some glass issues that were quickly sorted by Mclaren Manchester (who have been brilliant by the way!) and a parking sensor fault which its going in to have done in a few weeks.

Even after a year the car still amazes with it's acceleration and overall performance. I've joined a local supercar club that's a lot of fun with some really great people in it (MKNN Supercar Club) If in some pretty special company the 720 gets a lot of positive comments and attention (not including the McLaren reliability banter )

I've actually added a couple of cars to the stable since my last update, I've bought an SL63 for daily duties and just a few weeks ago, bought a manual 355 Spider (that I'm really enjoying!), so hoping with a couple of other cars to sit alongside the 720 and Exige the mileage gets spread about a bit and I don't put another 10,000 miles on it this year! It's also great to have such a good spread of cars, really makes you appreciate what each one is good at. As an out and out petrolhead, I'm feeling so lucky right now, dreaded getting into my 40's, turns out I'm living my best life!





Invite to Supercarfest again and some runs down the runway:

[AstonExige720]

Bit of a long overdue update! And quite a twist……
After just under 2.5yrs of ownership and 12,000 miles, the 720 is gone!! Part exchanged it last weekend…….. for this!! ??





It’s been the best 2 yrs of car ownership with the 720 and the original plan was to change to a spider, but I couldn’t find the one I wanted, some man maths later and made a 765LT work!

I will put up another thread on this car when I have some spare time, but if anyone wants to see more pictures and videos (There are plenty) I’ll be putting stuff up on my instagram account.

[AstonExige720]

Archerfield said:

Great thread and part of the reason why, after test driving an Artura i bought a 720S Spider.

That the one at McLeeds? If so I put a deposit on that! Then did the man maths for the 765 and pulled out. Beautiful car that, colour is awesome!

[AstonExige720]

Thanks for the kind word guys.

Just over 1 week into ownership now. Still surprises how different the car feels to the 720. And for the first time on Sunday with the roads being dry I was able to try WOT, things mental! But still feels so settled and inspires confidence. It gets lots of attention too! Since buying it 2 other people in our local supercar club are saying they’re now considering getting one! There is still a lot of anti-McLaren sentiment out there but with both the 720 and the 765, when people actually get to experience the cars, talk to real owners, (rather than just repeating what they read on the internet? their views tend to change.

Couple of pictures from the weekends shenanigans. Hatfield to collect an SV roadster on Saturday then C&M, then Aurum Lounge for cars and coffee on Sunday….

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[AstonExige720]

The leather put me off going to see it for a while, but it grew on me and glad it did! The satin black leather contrasts really well with the MSO gloss carbon (opposed to satin). The combination was actually a clever one, not one I’d have thought about, but everyone who sees it in person mentions how great the interior looks. And should have good longitivity. Quite like it’s probably unique too

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[AstonExige720]

MKNN is a great club, the people make that club. Down to earth bunch who are all about enjoying the cars. Made some really good friends on there.

[AstonExige720]

alscar said:

Aston Exige , congrats on the 765 -looks superb.
Slightly off topic I know but is the MKNN club worth joining ?

Where are you based? But simple answer is yes! Its a great club with a great bunch of people with something always going on.

[AstonExige720]

alscar said:

AstonExige720 said:

Where are you based? But simple answer is yes! Its a great club with a great bunch of people with something always going on.

North Bucks.
Sounds good - assume I don’t have to be on Facebook though ?!

No not at all, everything organised via WhatsApp groups