McLaren P1: sold out
Nordschleife lap goal achieved or not the P1 has hit its sales target and orders are now closed
Back in May McLaren's sales and marketing director Greg Levine told us in confident mood that "Porsche doesn't have a chance of selling 918 units" of its contender in the three-way electric-assisted power war and that "if the P1 was in a class of one we'd still only build 375 because you need the exclusivity."
Realistically it's that which will matter more to owners than speculation about lap times around German circuits or any other spec sheet statistic, the real arbiter of success in this realm being the perceived value of that rarity. Ferrari apparently sold all 499 LaFerraris before the covers even came off while Porsche has gone for - in this context - relatively high volume with its 918. Who wins this battle will be something we can only judge a few years down the line but the sub-100 production run of the F1 has certainly served McLaren well as values continue to soar, evidenced by the $8.47m paid for one at the Gooding & Co sale at Pebble Beach in August. Whether 375 proves to be relatively greedy in comparison will remain to be seen but there'll be satisfaction in Woking to know all the cars they'll build have got homes.
Wonder how much the deposit was.
Mind you, what a great list to be part of!
All in I'd be surprised if it was under £400m.
!! In that sense, they're not rare! They're as common as every road car in the UK!!
love it! Wonder how much the deposit was.
Mind you, what a great list to be part of!
Presumably they want to make a profit on the P1 - I wonder how much is cost to design and develop, compared to say the latest Fiesta. I seem to recall a mainstream workaday car costing hundreds of millions to develop - makes me think that a lot more effort went into the next Polo than McLaren spent on the P1 - or am I being stupid?
!! In that sense, they're not rare! They're as common as every road car in the UK!!
love it! Thankfully some of the public may be lucky and view the P1.
Wonder how much the deposit was.
Mind you, what a great list to be part of!
Presumably they want to make a profit on the P1 - I wonder how much is cost to design and develop, compared to say the latest Fiesta. I seem to recall a mainstream workaday car costing hundreds of millions to develop - makes me think that a lot more effort went into the next Polo than McLaren spent on the P1 - or am I being stupid?
The P1 doesn't have that - everything is designed in-house, a lot of it from the 12C, and they build it by hand in a limited run. That said, I couldn't say if McLaren will make much profit from the P1, I'd guess not.
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