• UK delivery car with current UK registration
• Regularly driven and McLaren factory maintained
• Complete with documentation and owners accessories
• Classic colour scheme

The importance of the McLaren F1 is not that it was, for seven years, the world’s fastest production car, nor that it remains the fastest naturally aspirated production car. Its importance comes from its unique blending of innovative design, advanced materials and exceptional adaptability and drivability. The McLaren F1 is a pure driver’s car conceived and perfected without the myriad technical gimmicks that all of its competitors rely upon to supplement the experience of driving.

The depths of McLaren’s technical expertise and imagination is abundantly demonstrated in the F1’s unmatched technical specifications including its carbon fibre monocoque, active aerodynamics, lavish use of exotic lightweight metals and composites and its creative centre driving position flanked by two passenger seats.

Although it is technically advanced the McLaren F1 incorporates none of the driving assists now commonplace on ultra-high performance cars. There is no power steering, no power assist on the 4-pot Brembo brakes (332/ 305mm front/ rear discs), no electro-hydraulic selection for the six-speed transverse manual gearbox, no clutch pedal boost, no traction control (aside from the Torsen 40% limited slip differential) and no electronic stability control. Only the aerodynamics have any kind of power assist. A pair of fans draw air from under the body in a driver-controlled “High Downforce” mode (recalling Murray’s precedent-setting Brabham-Alfa Romeo BT46 “fan car” of 1978), and the spoiler on the rear deck deploys when the brakes are applied to move the aerodynamic centre of pressure forward to enhance braking balance with the F1’s designed 42%/ 58% static weight distribution.

Deliveries began in 1993 and only 65 examples of the definitive road version were built from a total of 107 F1s, which includes six prototypes, five LM versions, three GT long tail road cars and 28 GTR racing cars. The racing cars do not feature the distinctive three seater configuration and nor can they be modified to such as the electronics occupy the right hand passenger seat.

Performance is breathtaking. In addition to a top speed of 372 kph (231 mph) in its standard configuration with 7,500 rpm rev limiter, one of the prototypes with the rev limiter disabled clocked 391 kph (243 mph) at 7,800 rpm. Acceleration has been timed at 3.2 seconds for 0-60 mph and 6.3 seconds to 100 mph. It will swallow a standing kilometer in 19.6 seconds with a terminal velocity of 285 kph (177 mph).

McLaren F1 ‘046’ is a UK specification car originally delivered to a well-known British GT racer who was a major contributor to the success of the McLaren GTR. Around 2003 it passed to another celebrated UK based historic and modern racer who maintains a world class stable of classics and supercars before its acquisition, early in 2010, by the present owner, whose collection includes all-time greats ranging from 250GTO to Veyron. It retains its factory luggage and Facom tool chest, owners handbooks, maintenance records and sundry other accessories. Total mileage to date is 28,000.

This is a rare opportunity to acquire a McLaren F1 road car with a regular factory maintenance record and, most importantly, UK road registration meaning that no further import tax is payable by an EU buyer, a saving of up to 20% compared to cars imported from outside the EU.
It is also one of only 65 in the world, acknowledged by experts to be the paramount supercar, prized by collectors and coveted by drivers who seek the ultimate road-going performance experience.