F1 Road test Mclaren F1 (old)

The McLaren F1 is a sports car designed and manufactured by McLaren Cars and powered by the BMW S70/2 V12 engine, of which a limited number were produced. On 31 March 1998, the XP5 prototype with a modified rev limiter set the Guinness World Record for the world's fastest production car, reaching 240.1 mph (386.4 km/h), surpassing the Jaguar XJ220's 217.1 mph (349.4 km/h) record from 1992 achieved with an increased rev limit and catalytic converters removed.

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McLaren F1 (94-97)
Test Date 11 May 1994 Price When New £540,000

Background:
You’re about to read a watershed road test: not simply because it’s of the fastest road car in history, but, in all likelihood, it’ll remain the fastest road test ever. Until we strapped our equipment onto the McLaren F1 no one knew how fast it was. Now we do, because we’ve driven it beyond 200mph, and timed it to the last hundredth of a second. And here it stops: McLaren will never release another of its amazing £540,000 supercars for road testing to anyone, anywhere in the world.

the rest of the article is hereMcLaren F1 (94-97) - Autocar.co.uk

It isn't really a detail review, but it is interesting reading people's perspective of the car when it was launched
 

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McLaren Automotive is a British luxury automotive manufacturer founded in 1985 as McLaren Cars and later re-introduced as McLaren Automotive in 2010. Based at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, England, the company's main products are sports cars, which are produced in-house in designated production facilities. In July 2017, McLaren Automotive became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the wider McLaren Group.
Official website: McLaren Automotive

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