A Delivery Mileage McLaren F1 Is Up For Sale, And It Makes Us A Bit Sad
What we have here is a McLaren F1 like no other. It’s clocked just 239km (148 miles), effectively meaning it’s covered delivery mileage only. It was never registered by its single owner, and is still wearing its factory protective wrapping. Oh, and it includes all the original accessories including the tool chest and luggage set.
This 1997 example is finished in Dandelion Yellow, while on the inside you’ll find a dark grey interior with contrasting yellow inserts on the driver’s seat. Gordon Murray’s signature is hand-painted on the body, and you get a spare, LM-style exhaust and a GT R steering wheel along with the deal.
This is the closest thing to a new McLaren F1 in existence, and it’s up for sale at specialist dealer Tom Hartley Jnr. It’s listed - as you’d probably expect - as ‘£POA’, but this will almost certainly become the most expensive F1 ever sold, exceeding the current record of $15.62 million.
All of this makes us a little sad. The McLaren F1 is one of the greatest driving machines ever built, and one of the 64 produced has sat for most of its 20 years on Planet Earth doing nothing. Never turning a wheel in anger. Not once hitting the 7500rpm red line of its BMW-derived V12.
There is of course hope that the next owner decides “screw that” and uses this car in a way that’s fit and proper, but we can’t help but assume its factory fresh condition will continue to be preserved.
Any super rich people out there want to prove us wrong?
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Why have such a masterpiece and not even sit inside the damn thing? Let alone drive it?…
Some people have way more money than sense. When i become rich and have a garage full of exotics, im going to drive them around daily.
Like Rowan Atkinson basically. He dailied his F1 even after he crashed it
i wouldnt have a garage full of supercars, just one fun car and one daily, the fun car can be anything that performance inspired from a miata to a mclaren P1 and id drive it when i have free time to drive it
I mean look at it this way, the next owner will be able to buy a car that is literally in the condition it came out of the factory in
If I had a choice I’d rather buy this than one someone has beat on for a decade lol
Or like Jay Leno
“There is of course hope that the next owner decides ‘screw that’ and uses this car in a way that’s fit and proper”
No way in a thousand years it will happen. What’s going to happen is someone (an investor) will buy it, never drive it (and probably never even start it), keep it for 5-10 years and sell it for twice the price he paid. And you know what? Except the “keep it for 5-10 years and sell it for twice the price”, that’s what I’d probably do. Logic would be, if I want a F1 which I will drive, I’ll buy one which is already used and driven.
“If preserved is highly likely to be the most valuable road car in the world in years to come.”
It actually says this in the advert. Why sell a car that way!?
Exactly, it’s not going to happen. But we like to live in hope ;)
In before Patrick $3 meme.
If an owner wants an F1 to drive, they wouldn’t buy a factory condition one for double the price of a driven one. I can’t understand when people say they aren’t using it for its true purpose. But in this situation I do understand as it is kinda sad because they haven’t even SAT in the damn thing. But when you’re trying to keep a car’s value at the highest you don’t sit in it.
Im saying we crowdfund it.
This should be put in a museum and never ever used. When there’s so few McLaren F1’s, why take the one closest to new and use it?
I agree!
Yay! Someone understands!
Well, McLaren already has a lot of cars which they never sold, plus who the hell in the real world would give it to a museum when they can get millions for it
Agreed. If the car did end up to the wrong hands, then it will be more worse than being locked up in a million-dollar museum. I rather see cars staying in a museum rather than ruined by idiots driving like hooligans.
if it was never registered - have fun registering it in Germany. It will be registered as 2017 production car and needs to pass 2017 pollution regulations, which it never will.
It’ll probably be locked in a display case in someones living room, as it usually is with +10m cars…
I hope it’s treated well like a car should
Am i the only one that thinks this is pretty cool?
Imagine owning a F1 and not driving it. I wouldnt be able to resist the temptation. Imo, no amount of profit is worth the sheer driving privilege and pleasure that the F1 enables. F**k that guy, he dumb