re: Anyone on here own a Mclaren?

I owned one of these in the 90’s. Wasn’t much more than a body kit on a regular mustang. But I’m sure this is not the car you are talking about.

If you are buying a "super car", I urge you to fly to Dallas and drive at least 5-6 other makes. I did exactly this for 2 days in 2014. After driving others, the "one" I thought I wanted, as well as the others I was considering all fell short in overall fun, refinement, and handling of the Porsches I drove. I never was a fan of Porsche until I A/B'd with the other big super car names...spending the second day going back and forth between the three I'd narrowed down to, it was a Porsche I drove home... and to be honest, there wasn't another car even close when all was said and done.

The McLaren is exotic, beautiful, and crazy fast in a straight line... but service/dealers are sparse, resale and reliability is still a bit questionable. On the other hand, the Porsche 911 is known as the single most reliable car in the world.. and if you buy a desirable model/package/color they can be virtually free to drive when resale time comes. I do know what it's like to get hung up on one car and no other will do, I've been through dozens over the years from vintage Jaguar XKE's to 60's American big blocks, Italians to BMW M-series... but after almost 40 years of "enthusiast" owning and driving everything I can get my hands on, I really wish I would have learned earlier. Porsche has spoiled all others for me and I would buy nothing else.


If money's no object, here is no performance feat in which a McLaren can beat a Porsche. One big difference I experienced was when driven hard, all other super cars are steaming, popping, crackling metal sounds, smelling like rubber smoking from heat after pushing them to the limit, the Porsche is still calm, relaxed, and cool like you just putted down the street to drop off the wife...plus Porsche gives you world class performance while still more dependable than the family Camry, Accord, or Lexus. You may still want the 570 but I would implore you to at least get a few more side by side to put through the paces for comparison. Good luck.

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No one on here owns a McLaren, and you aren't buying one.

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Too soon?

It isn't my fault Senna forgot to turn left at Tamburello.

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But as others have said it's not going to be an investment.
It's meant to be a toy and not an investement and no body with the means to buy one will think of it with an investment.

And when I say "the means to buy one" I don't mean someone that finances it for 5 or 6 years; I mean someone that simply wires the money and pays for it with "cash."

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Yeah most people don't think of them as an "investment" but most do keep depreciation in mind and didn't get to that level without paying attention to things like that. As far as paying for them I'm sure the buyers are all over the place. Some pay cash, others finance when they have the cash but are using the money to make more elsewhere, many lease for business purposes and some are faking until they make it.

He did turn, it was the understeer that got him.

The fact that you think it's an investment kind of shows you do not invest well enough to have the money to own one. Terrible fake flex

You heard there is talk of going back to Imola?

I recently bought one. I thought about paying cash but I opted for 12 year financing.

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You heard there is talk of going back to Imola?

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I prefer Monza (La Pista Magica) if there is only one race inside Italy but if they keep adding races to the calendar they are going to have to look at some of the "abandoned" historical tracks.