Agreed. Everytime I hear a proper e46 m3, I almost hear ghosts of the f1s voice

@@djisurfli Funny you say that - I get that feeling more with the S85 - you can still pick one up in good condition for relatively cheap - get one while you can if you havent already - preferably M6

It's never outdated; like a Countach!

Definitely not outdated, it's timeless.

Nothing beats the classics!

A Nissan GTR is not even in the same league as these cars mentioned hahaha

Choosing it is the obvious choice, affording one now a days now that’s the real issue.

Probably a kid that thinks the Nissan R34 is the ultimate car.

Soul and beauty with Volvo lights and VW mirrors :)

So true.

Mcnull3840 and because of BMW!!!

The McLaren F1 was a hyper car before they coined the term or knew what a hyper car was

imperia777 Another idiot that thinks a car only consists of engine

No they don't. Nobody gives a shit you're a "car guy".

@@jcosta79 This guy gets it.

Hi, The successor GMA T50 make all things better as the F1 ❣️😅 Said Gordon Murray. I think 455 km/h topspeed it makes. I hope in the next time, they make a comparison between F1 & T50 🙏🏼😁 Love from Berlin 🇩🇪 Ramsi 🙋🏻‍♂️

srinitaaigaura I agree with you, but I think Mclaren can do another car like the F1, they just have to hire Gordon Murray Design to run the project. They know how to build a pure sports car.

Let's see if Mclaren's new GT can at least match the packaging. When the F1 came out, it was miles above any other supercar - it made them all look like cheap plastic toys for adults in comparison. Just about the only thing it needed (they tried though) was today's brakes and rubber and maybe a tad more downforce without changing the looks. I mean there are videos of the XP5s record attempt out there where they moved the rev limiter out - it did a calculated quarter mile in 10.6 at 142 mph, 19 sec to 186 mph and 23 seconds to 200... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hLGUn7xz2L_QZYk.html

NaKombi89 - They have the blueprint to build it exactly like the original. But modern crash test and emissions standards make that impossible, which is sad.

I hear Mclaren is willing to rebuild the car rather than write it off - Rowan Atkinson's F1 got split in 2 at one point and they put it back. Then Mr. JWW had the time of his life with it.

Well now there is :)

Hope you had a box of tissues handy when you finished writing this comment mate. Extremely MotorErotic

High chance that t50 will be even better. F1 way ahead of its time for decades

Hahahahahaha why not?

Comic Sans is suitable for an 8 year old boys birthday party invitation, or maybe a poster with a picture of a kitten. Maybe not even for those. It's kind of like wearing parachute pants and a mullet to a chic nightclub. Or clown shoes to a funeral. Don't worry! Help is available: www.comicsanscriminal.com For reals though, thanks for posting this awesome documentary. What a car!

Nothing should ever be in comic sans.

Correct. Not even the words "Comic Sans."

And a manual gearbox

Amen!

And a BMW V12.

ANDREW WILKINSON not really, bulk of the work shown was 92/93 when Williams were king

youre forgetting about paganis

Gordon Murray himself has no gone it alone and built a fan car that looks very similar to a McLaren F1. It even has a similar V12 engine in it. It's basically an updated McLaren F1. If he can get the money, he should totally build a car that pushes the boundaries of what is possible. Imagine a massive 7L+ quad-turbocharged V12 engine which on it's own would produce about 1,000 HP, and then add a Le Mans style hybrid system which can add another 300. They should use some of the technology that has been made since the F1, like the Koenigsegg Light Speed Transmission, the Pagani Huayra's bonkers active aerodynamics, 4 wheel steering and Rimac's torque vectoring for use on the hybrid system. It would probably cost an obscene amount of money, but it would take almost a decade for anyone to catch up, just like the original McLaren F1.

​@potatogirlcultist19 I don't think you need 7l, if you want to turbocharge it. The Valkyrie uses a 6.5 l engine that produces 1000hp na, köenigsegg 5l with turbo chargers for 1600hp. Also I don't think gorden murry would want to add any hybridity it just adds weight. But yes a halo car by him would be awesome

​​@@potatogirlcultist19😊Bah too much weight. 😂 The T50 IS the halo car.

That is not what gorden murry is about.@@potatogirlcultist19

Gordons T.50 does 12K RPM now so he learned haha...

Now the T50 can show what it all can better as the F1❣️ Gordon Murray said, it can all better.😅 Hope to see a comparison next time between F1 and T50 🙏🏼😃

Same! It's been my dream since I was like 6 haha...

Rover Waters it was a failure, and as soon as the Veyron, the masterpiece, came out, it was dead.

6.50 so they stole a BMW engine, BMW were not happy I guess!

Nick you are showing your ignorance here, McLaren consulted with and gave BMW the opportunity to participate in the F1 program. The engine design parameters were set by McLaren and BMW built it under contract for this project exclusively. You probably don't know this but in a similar collaboration the Williams F1 team designed and fitted a special one off V12 in the 1999 Chassis that won Le Mans and Sebring on its first and only attempts. The BMW V12 LMR was built by Williams F1 as a prelude to the next season in F1 where Williams partnered with BMW as their engine suppliers, ultimately to buy the team. 1999 saw Mercedes reintroduce the flying car with Mark Webber flying twice before the race and once during the race. They withdrew the other team cars as a result.

Rover Waters no they only made around like 136 of these that's why they cost so much. Supply and demand buddy.

It was never going to sell over 300 because it took way too much time. Remember these things are basically handbuilt.

I think the Bugatti V had a W16 with like 3 turbos or something insane!

You mean 1994-1996 right?

NaKombi89 no i say i had this car designed and painted it on paper before it was produced. I was 14 years old in school

08halit LOL

XP1 was destroyed earlier in testing. That yellow car isn't a real F1, but the Clinic Model that didn't have a drivetrain. It's the same model that you see in silver on the cover of the book "Driving Ambition". It was later scraped despite being a huge part of McLaren F1 history.

The yellow F1 is a production car that went to a Japanese customer, I used to test drive the production F1's and drove the yellow F1 at Millbrook proving ground and on the A3.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA you are like Bob Dillahunty

Jim Rosenthal

sadly its modern regulations

Well the truth be known! McClaren patented the arrow head driving position, which is probably why it has not been used since. Plus I've heard on the grapevine that McClaren mind repeat this position again on a future up and coming car,hopefully

renault twizzy?

Its has been repeated in the new T.50 from Gordon Murray and the new McLaren Speed tail. Its is very rare and probably makes the drivetrain and transmission design extremely complicated underneath.

@@ryand4533 now yes. Nice to see it’s possible

Chris Johnson ....higher rev limits.

Well, they were actually longish stroke motors, more like car engines. Absolute limit around 8500-9000

Ferrari 412t2

@@javierreyes9853 a man of culture

The Questioner there is a pro and con to that. Pro: it won't be in the streets where it can crash or get hit by another car Con: the car would rot in a garage

For the price of upkeep for a few years, even if you never started it up once, you could buy a few modern super cars.

Yea because they were partened with Honda in F1.

Obi-Wan Kannabis - Honda were not their F1 Team's engine supplier and they were not 'partnered' with them after '92. Production of the road car was '93-'98.

Correct, they wanted Honda to make an engine, possibly a v10. Honda declined. Good or bad move i dunno.

Honda made a high rev 120 hp/liter engine 5 years later so I think they were fine.

Yes, in fact Gordon liked the NSX and much of the F1 was inspired off the NSX.

"The human race is capable of just about anything." Except common sense and reason.

@@McLarenMercedes Yes- I can't disagree with that! well said lol

Lol, alright. You made me crack a smile that is hard to crack. Have a like

Yeah its boosted too. This was an N/A car that beat prototypes at Lemans. Corvette has never been fast enough or reliable enough to do that.

lol. This is coming from an absolute corvette FANATIC, ok.. you’re comparing a car that isn’t maybe 6 months old and has 70 years of experience to a 100% hand built by a team of what? 35 guys?(And girls) from a company with zero experience in the consumer market and production sectors all based on an idea of a single man who had such unbelievable measures of perfection that this same thing probably couldn’t be replicated even today. And we’re talking about the 90s man. The late 80s early 90s corvette didn’t have even 250hp because the emissions laws and that’s GENERAL MOTORS IN THEIR ENTIRETY COULDN’T FIGURE OUT HOW TO COMBINE MAX HP AND STILL ACHIEVE A CLEAN EMISSION, this small team did it in weeks. You can’t compare any other automotive project to the McLaren XP project it’s just some random glitch in the fabric of the space-time-continuum that all the exact planets (ppl) aligned at the exact moment in history and maybe the only one ever at the only manufacturer that would consider this where a completely unnecessary and outrageously complex and over built vehicle that would not only be faster than any other vehicle in production but faster than their own Fkn open wheel F1 car. Unbelievable.

andy mandy and sheba Make that 243mph.

Dear Nick Your sombrero is on too tight ! While the Veyron and Chiron are wonderful technology demonstrators, they are hardly useful transportation devises. At top speed the Veyron has 12 minutes in motion and 14 minutes of tire life, good thing the French didn't get it backwards. And where would you suggest using this Motorcar? McLaren and indeed the entire British Formula One paddock has a combined knowledge base on par with NASA or ESA. 90% of this group is British even if you check the names (James Allison Chief Chassis designer) of the Ferrari team you will find a huge integration of the best of British engineering. As for the US talent, you need to look no further than the Tesla and Elon Musk. You can buy a grocery getter that out accelerates any Hypercar on Street tires that don't cost 3000 euros each as on the Veyron that last 12 minutes. Just look at the McLaren Senna and try to remember what you thought was cool about the Veyron. Again not trying to be unkind, but marshal your facts, have a think, and then comment. Included new source material for you kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eb-nitmL1uDdpKs.html Robert

Sorry to break it to ya bud but the McLaren F1 legendary status has spanded decades (if you include early staged development) and is still remembered as one of the most iconic supercars in history, employing revolutionary design and engineering solutions, a record lap holder for 10 years or so, and a 90s body design that is still contemporary today AND worth millions. What more could you ask for?

Nick Magee - Brown. This car is still and always will be the fastest naturally aspirated road car in history.

DAMN STRAIGHT. And stunning to boot!

The more I find stuff on it, the more amazing it gets. What a concept and execution for those times!