a McLaren F1.. apparently the only one in australia, that cost 1.6million pounds new.. and is road registered in Victoria.. rego plates "MCL-F1"
the boys from Volkswagen Australia came to check our shop out, and all had a good old gawke..
i walked by and said to the paint shop foreman... "it's just a car"
he just laughed, and said, "Thayre your mates(VW Aust.")
i just had to get it all out馃榾馃榾馃榾
sax 路
Ive seen that same car in Sydney, with VIC plates.
It was doing about 60k's at the time in a 90 zone too.????
sax 路
About 500,000 pounds new. ($1.5 million Oz)
killakornkobb 路
my foreman lied to me!... oh well.. still more than i'll ever see in one place馃檪
sax 路
Now consider this: assuming he drove the thing up here from Melbourne when I saw it (last year)
how quickly could he theoretically have done the trip? Forget speed laws, the thing does about 390 so Melbourne to Sydney in ...what, few hours??
buzzbug 路
they are a beautiful car.
Driver sits in the middle with a passanger either side of them.
Lee.
Fossil 路
A VW goews jsut as fast in a traffic jam - just think of what change you'd have from this buying your dream VW
zac_smits 路
buzzbug wrote:they are a beautiful car.
Driver sits in the middle with a passanger either side of them.
Lee.
you're right...that sounds like it could be very good fun 馃槈馃槈
though..you probably wouldn't want to drink anything if you were going to drive it anywhere!
squizy 路
Rohan Atkinson had one and wrote it off didn't he?
Beerboy 路
I used to work for storagetek in woking (uk) next to mclaren and followed it into work in my bug. It was being driven on garage plates. This was when it was new out. I had this had moment to just drive straight into the back of it.
I reconed I would have got in the sun newspaper and I would have loved to see what the insurance company would have said. especially if my rusty 71 had come off better.
Needless to say I bottled it and just tell the story.
oh well ;-)
Bizarre 路
There "use" to be one in Sydney
The owners "mechanic" took it out for a spin down Bobbin Head way with a few......... "apprentices" 馃槝.... with him.
Mis-judged a corner and wrote the thing off 馃榿
pete wood 路
As I understand it, most people's insurance wouldn't cover that sort of thing would it. 馃檨
buzzbug 路
I don't know about Rowan Atkinson owning one of these,
but i do know that Elton Johns chafuer wrote off his Jag XJ220