Wealthy petrolhead Francois Perrodo managed to fill up the tank on his McLaren F1 FTR at BP in Chiswick with diesel. Which won’t be a cheap fix. The McLaren F1 is perhaps the most celebrated, and expensive, supercar ever made (challenged only by the Ferrari 250 GTO) and only 64 road cars and even fewer […]
McLaren F1 #029 SELLS for £14,766,000 at Pebble Beach auction
A 1995 McLaren F1 – chassis #029 with just 240 miles from new – sells at Gooding’s Pebble Beach auction for £14,766,213. When the McLaren F1 arrived back in the 1990s it cost a whopping £640,000, but McLaren struggled to sell the world’s fastest and most expensive car, eventually stopping at just 64 regular road […]
McLaren F1 ‘LM Spec’ chassis #018 sells for £16.3 Million
McLaren F1 ‘LM Spec’ chassis #018 has sold at RM Sotheby’s Monterey sale this weekend for a record price of £16.3 million. Last month we reported that one of just two McLaren F1s converted by McLaren to ‘LM’ spec was going across the block at RM Sotheby’s Monterey sale, and we expected it to break […]
McLaren F1 ‘LM Spec’ chassis #018 up for sale – should break £15 million
McLaren F1 chassis #018, one of only two regular F1s with a retro-fitted LM spec, is up for sale at RM Sotheby’s Monterey sale. Should fetch at least £15 million. In the world of McLaren F1, the most valuable ‘modern’ hypercar, there is still a hierarchy of desirability, with the GTR cars modified for road […]
McLaren F1 Certified Programme from MSO launched with ‘New’ F1 GTR ’25R’
McLaren Special Operations has launched a new McLaren F1 Certified programme, launched with an as new restoration of McLaren F1 GTR 25R. A few years ago, Ron Dennis, then McLaren’s irascible boss, mused that he should dig out all the original tooling and parts from the production run of the McLaren F1 and start building […]
McLaren F1 #073 LM spec up for sale with RM Sotheby’s new Private Sales
McLaren F1 chassis #073 is a rare F1 with LM spec upgrade by McLaren, and it’s up for sale at RM Sotheby’s new Private Sales Division. As rare classic cars go, the McLaren F1 is one of the rarest, with just 64 road legal cars and five LM spec models originally built. And McLaren F1s […]
McLaren F1 ‘Continuation’ on the cards if Ferrari ‘revives’ the 250 GTO?
It looks like the Ferrari 250 GTO could arrive as a ‘continuation’ car in the next few years, but will McLaren follow suit with a continuation run of the McLaren F1. The current vogue by car makers with a heritage is to deliver ‘continuation’ runs of historic models, just as Jaguar has done with the […]
McLaren F1 Service Centre opens in US to cater for the 20 plus F1s in the States
More than 20 years since the McLaren F1 arrived as probably the greatest supercar ever, McLaren opens a dedicated service centre in the USA. It’s more than 20 years since the Gordon Murray designed McLaren F1 arrived like a supercar from the future, with its immense BMW-powered performance, stunning looks, carbon fibre chassis and unique […]
McLaren F1 #060 – with just Pre-delivery and Service mileage – now for sale in the UK
A McLaren F1 with just ‘service’ milage on it is up for sale in the UK, still displaying its protective interior covering from new and never road driven. How much is a McLaren F1 that’s been stored since new worth? McLaren F1 #060 is one such car, as it’s been cared for and cosseted in […]
How much did McLaren F1 #044 sell for? That’ll be £12,132,509
McLaren F1 #044 – the very first McLaren F1 to be road-legal in the USA – has just sold for an incredible £12,132,509 at Bonham’s Quail sale. Last month we revealed that a McLaren F1 was going under the hammer at Bonham’s 2017 Quail sale, and that it could fetch more than £10 million. That […]