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Mr. Bean's Twice-Wrecked McLaren F1 Is for Sale

“Look at a modern supercar of comparable performance and it will be vast, heavy, and offer little or no space for your luggage. By comparison the F1 is tiny, yet it will seat three, store enough for you all to go on holiday and still finds space for a proper, normally aspirated 6.1-liter V-12 engine. And it weighs the same as a shopping car. Nothing has ever been designed before or since with such imagination and clarity of thought.”
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Atkinson gets it. And he didn’t buy the F1 as an investment car to be ferreted away in a climate-controlled garage: “The whole point of the car, the thing no one ever writes about, is you don’t need to go to the Stelvio Pass or the Nürburgring to enjoy it. It’s so quiet, so comfortable that you can use it, and enjoy it, on any journey. Most of the miles I have done it in are journeys you might do in any other car: going to Sainsburys or doing the school run.”

Indeed, since Atkinson bought the car new in 1997, he’s put 41,000 miles on it—frankly an astounding number for one of only 64 roadgoing F1s ever made, a car that cost Atkinson about $750,000 new and has only gone up in value since then. Yes, even despite the double-wrecking.
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anybody have 12 million bucks?
 
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9296potsguy said:
I know it's lightweight, but that is rather sad.
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Miatas aren't meant for the drag strip. I've driven Nerd's Miata, and I can say that you don't spend a lot of time thinking about how underpowered it is when you're on a windy road.

Nerd-Vol said:
I'm sure it will be fun to drive, but I was hoping for 170hp.
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Yeah, 150 isn't much of an upgrade, is it?
 
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Thrasher865 said:
Miatas aren't meant for the drag strip. I've driven Nerd's Miata, and I can say that you don't spend a lot of time thinking about how underpowered it is when you're on a windy road.



Yeah, 150 isn't much of an upgrade, is it?
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It's actually a downgrade in power. 167 to 155. Torque is up by 7 or so though.

I bet the car will be a blast, but people like big hp figures.
 
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Thrasher865 said:
Miatas aren't meant for the drag strip. I've driven Nerd's Miata, and I can say that you don't spend a lot of time thinking about how underpowered it is when you're on a windy road.



Yeah, 150 isn't much of an upgrade, is it?
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I'm a fan of Lotus, so I'm pretty familiar with the whole weight/hp deal. I just think it's a drag that Mazda didn't aim for ~175 HP area. I have a 97 Nissan 240SX LE and it came equipped with 155 HP oddly enough and it was sluggish. I realize the 240 is a heavier car, but c'mon.
 
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9296potsguy said:
I'm a fan of Lotus, so I'm pretty familiar with the whole weight/hp deal. I just think it's a drag that Mazda didn't aim for ~175 HP area. I have a 97 Nissan 240SX LE and it came equipped with 155 HP oddly enough and it was sluggish. I realize the 240 is a heavier car, but c'mon.
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Mazda probably realizes that the aftermarket will take care of all that.
 
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9296potsguy said:
I'm a fan of Lotus, so I'm pretty familiar with the whole weight/hp deal. I just think it's a drag that Mazda didn't aim for ~175 HP area. I have a 97 Nissan 240SX LE and it came equipped with 155 HP oddly enough and it was sluggish. I realize the 240 is a heavier car, but c'mon.
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It is disappointing. That said, if it is as quick as the FRS and more fun to drive, it shouldn't be a problem. Folks who buy the Miata rarely seem interested in its over hp figure. It is about the driving feel. What makes the car great can't be described on a spec sheet.

That said, 170hp would have been cool.

I'm sad that we won't be getting the 1.5 liter 130 hp version. Make it a super budget version for like $17,000. It would be like a modern copy of my current 1995 Miata.
 
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volinbham said:
Now, let's drop that engine in the new Miata and everyone wins
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Ooooh. That would be the meanest car roaming the planet.

Also I doubt it will drop in. Wedged, shoehorned, finagled in maybe. Lol
 
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