Posted on 05/05/2016 4:39:31 AM PDT by Rebelbase
A newly minted McLaren owner in England became a little over-excited following the delivery of his brand-new supercar. Telegraph reports that the owner of a McLaren 650S stuffed the coupe into a tree just 10 minutes after the car arrived at his house for the first time.
The report states that neighbors spotted the owner celebrating supercar ownership with a bottle of champagne right after the car arrived at his doorstep. Not 10 minutes later, the owner introduced the front end of his $265,000 supercar to the ever-sturdy trunk of an innocent tree. The collision was severe enough to demolish the front end of the car, scattering bits of the carbon fiber bodywork all over the immediate area.
While it isn’t easy to sympathize with the owner, it is simple to understand how the driver lost control. With a 3.8-liter twin-turbocharged V-8 engine sending 641 hp and 500 lb-ft to the rear wheels through a seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox, the 650S scampers to 62 mph in a chest-compressing 3 seconds, and on to a top speed of 207 mph. These are not performance figures of a forgiving and easy-to-manage car.
Essex police are not completely sure on the identity of the driver who was piloting the car at the time, and are still conducting an investigation.
Exactly. I have had an interest in cars since I was a youth but have never driven in a car like this. I would get serious training in a high performance driving school before ever doing so. I did recently test drive the Tesla but was very cautious and a bit nervous while doing so since it was the most expensive car I had ever driven. It wasn’t the performance edition but even so it was new to me in a number of different ways and you need to know what you are doing before doing anything out there on the road.
20 hours of lessons should be included with the purchase of the car.
A doctor friend bought a new Ford GT about 10 years ago. Not the mustang, the GT.
The battery was weak so he took it to the dealership for a battery. Yes, you guessed it, the service manager and mechanic decided it need a test drive to be sure the battery worked. Yes, they wrecked it!!
I recall a similar incident documented in Road and Track about 15 or 20 years ago. An American received his new Maclaren F1 and promptly broke the tires free, sending it into a tree. $250K damage, after only 2 miles of driving.
The “creative destruction” of capitalism at work.
Some clown whacked a Ferrari into a retaining wall somewhere in England last week also. If you’ve ever seen British roads you might wonder where someone would even try to drive a car like that. It’d be like buying a supercharged drag bike to ride around on Manhattan.
Years ago something similar happened to me too. Brand new truck, and not 12 hrs after I bought it someone backed into it in a parking lot. Dented the rear bumper and took out a tail-light - and they left, hit and run. I hope karma choked the living s**t out of them. Maybe they saw the temporary tag in the back window and realized I’d have choked them out if I had caught them.
If I had that ind of money, I’d use it to buy a house.
Yeras ago a friend worked a high end sports car place on a lot so small they had to unload deliveries on the adjacent highway ramp, run them down to the next exit and U turn them back to the shop.
Road construction narrowed the lanes so bad that on one return trip he got squeezed by a semi against the conc. barrier and tore up a new Porche Boxter with eight miles on the odometer.
Posted with photo of rear only.
Yep,list on the spyder version is 285K
“My old man is a TV repairman, and has got the ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.”
I guess if you are rich enough to buy a McLaren, you're rich enough for the cops to not be able to identify you when you drink and drive (into a tree).
Kids who can’t handle sticks are always fun with dads new car also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vWCd8iOp8U
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/10/business/corporate-triumph-then-death-in-a-ferrari.html
Hard to believe companies were being formed at a furious pace to deliver what are now almost commodities.
There’s a McLaren dealership a mile from me right next door to the Tesla dealership. Lot of beautiful machinery on display there — best eye candy ever. It’s a rare day in Silicon Valley when you don’t see some HyperCar on the streets. Unfortunately, my 13 year old Expedition remains my daily driver.
LOL...or not-so-creative in this case.
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