Indeed it is, and with him driving apparently.

You can see the car lose control here and slide towards the crowd in the first 10 seconds. Don’t bother watching the rest - not because its gruesome, but rather because the person holding the camera never stops moving it around so its worthless footage.

Perhaps you meant to direct that reply to someone else? The FXX with the Florida plate was certainly never converted for road use - they just happened to stick a plate on it.

My issue was the claim that Ferrari does not allow customers to take possession of their XX cars and this has never been the case. That shot of…

Here’s the F1 in the driveway. This is the same car that just sold in Monterey for $13.75M, though he was no longer the owner.

This was Don Wallace’s home at 1801 Bayshore Blvd.

I think most people expect that there will be a loss of power with tighter emissions controls - if there was no penalty to performance or drivability (or fuel economy) then Volkswagen would have sold them that way originally and avoided this mess entirely.

The problem is that the testing done here to arrive at that…

I know nothing about the shop, but it seemed abundantly clear that they aren’t too familiar with VWs and there was little scientific merit to their botched testing here.

It’s a shame too, because they were trying to answer a question that interests a lot of people at the moment, but their methods were faulty and the…

I watched this last night and came to the conclusion these guys barely know what they are doing.

Shomegrown on VWVortex was able to explain in greater detail why these results are largely incomplete and therefore meaningless.

Máté - you’re promoting a myth here. :-\

Ferrari does not force anyone to leave their FXX or FXX-K at the factory. They offer the service of storage, prep and delivery to the various track events, and that is certainly quite convenient for the owners who lead busy lives and don’t need to be bothered by logistics.…

This might be your most irresponsible post yet, Tavarish.

The only way a current buyer of a VW TDi might make out is if VW is forced into a buy-back scenario or forced to give owners of these cars a substatial settlement - both those options could take months or years to come to fruition.

It was Saturday.

Little late, but I was busy enjoying Car Week at the time. ;-)

$16M hammer, so $17.6M with the Buyer’s Premium tacked on.

There are actually 7 McLaren F1s still in Brunei’s collection as of the last update I received and perhaps an additional one that wasn’t accounted for. It would be two or three F1 road cars, one F1 GTR, three F1 LMs and one F1 GT.

The Sultan is given credit for buying all those cars, however, it was actually several members of the family spending the money including his younger brother who was the biggest offender. A more appropriate way to phrase it would be to say that those three, and six or seven other McLaren F1s, were all purchased by the…

That’s an ignorant statement - plenty of people love the characters that Rowan Atkinson has played. I know a McLaren P1 owner who was desperate to buy that F1 specifcally because it was Mr Bean’s but wasn’t able to pull the funding together before it had already been sold.

Finding it in the Portola parking garage was a highlight for myself and some friends on Saturday night. Never would have expected to see a Tucker in the middle of some random rental cars.

The car sold at auction had a fully finished interior. It also retained the original road car synchromesh gearbox instead of the straight-cut gearbox that LMs borrowed from the GTRs. There are also a multitude of detail differences throughout the car, and finally the chassis number 073 clearly identifies its origins…

The McLaren F1 that sold was not an F1 LM despite all the marketing leading up to the sale. It is a standard F1 road car (chassis 073) which has been upgraded by the factory with a number of items that are similar to those found on the actual F1 LMs, including an LM-spec engine. That said, there are still a number of…

Correct - Rowan’s is a great example but his own star power also helped influence the price. I wouldn’t count on the figure making headlines being entirely accurate, but he still did well at the point he chose to sell his car.