Here's TopGear.com's roving correspondent, Cory Spondent, with his mostly incorrect exclusives from the world of motoring
A billionaire has told TopGear.com how they 'cannot wait' to put their brand new, £2m+ McLaren W1 hypercar into storage for the next 20 years.
Despite being a road-going distillation of the company’s vast technical expertise and know-how in aerodynamics and powertrains, the billionaire was chomping at the bit to completely ignore all of that and put it in a big, dark storage room for two decades.
And the owner was particularly looking forward to watching the W1's value skyrocket by deliberately leaving its incredible ‘performance envelope’ well alone.
“1,258bhp and a redline of 9,200rpm sounds amazing, but do you know what sounds even better? Never once using any of that as it was intended. Might not even turn it on,” the owner said.
“Race mode? Yeah, it looks ridiculously cool when activated, but... no. Just no. I’m tempted to ask McLaren to wrap it up in a big airtight box to make it even easier to never use it.
“Mercifully, it’s quite light – only 1,399kg – so the trailer I pick it up on won’t struggle too much. That way it won’t even have delivery mileage. Zero miles on the odometer is the new benchmark.
“Three seconds a lap faster around Nardo than the Senna? Magic. Not that I’ll ever attempt that myself. I once used my Senna on a track. Worthless to me now. You want it? Only got 37 miles on the clock. Yours for £20m.”
