Looking for something to watch this bank holiday? Well you're in luck - we revisited the McLaren F1 to see if it still holds its own today
that road car performance returned to this level. The F1 was near enough 20 years ahead of the curve.
In deference to the F1’s age, value and the infamous Bruntingthorpe stone chips, we didn’t do a side-by-side drag race, but nor did we need to because, thanks to that day in 1994 and another in 2017, we already have full figures for both cars. They make interesting reading. But what neither the 720S nor any other modern super or hypercar will provide is that packaging, first because with crash structures, airbags, powertrain ancillaries, infotainment and other feature content, it is simply impossible to do so. But how Gordon managed to squeeze three people, a 6.1-litre V12 and decent luggage space into a car smaller in every significant dimension than the two-seat 720S with its 4.0-litre V8 still boggles the brain. It is a masterpiece. And then it is gone.
An unforgettable car in so many ways, and surely never again will something so extravagant be created with not a single eye on what it costs to make or with any regard for economies of scale.Thirty. Million. Quid. It was all I could think about having levered myself into the F1’s central driver’s seat ; having pressed that deliciously understated covered starter button ; and having begun engaging with the car’s weighty, precise controls to usher it carefully into motion.
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