Ferrari LaFerrari vs Mclaren P1 vs Porsche 918

It is.

 

If I understand this correctly, the GPS location needs to be precise enough for the car to know it's in, say, turn 15. Mapping says, e.g., that turn 15 exit is a KERS user. The actual initiation of KERS is triggered by the throttle, as the driver goes to power. Is that correct?

 

Would FIA let torque to the front wheels also as in the 918 and do you think it would be a neat advantage? Tnx

 

what are the last informations available (officially or non officially) regarding the (requested)selling price of those three pearls?

 

Porsche has priced the 918 Spyder at $845,000. I believe the McLaren P1 will be priced around $1.2M and it seems like the new yet-to-be-named Ferrari will be slightly higher at around $1.3M.

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This is along the lines of what I was thinking, the Porsche is around 4-500k cheaper than both of them. I wonder what Porsche could have done differently if they were priced higher...

 

The base price is $845,000. After you add some of the options, it goes beyond $1MM. The Weissach editions base price is $925,000.

 

And they plan on building/selling 918 of them so almost twice more than the Mc P1 and probably the F70.

 

Yes. I think they should have decided to make less. That being said, Porsche usually knows what its doing. Although I believe they also made too many CGT's, their values are going to go up. May take some time, but it will happen. Part of that reason is because it was the only "organic" supercar of that time, when compared to the Enzo and SLR (F1 or Auto gearboxes, and in the case of the SLR a supercharger).

 

They did end the production of the CGT earlier than they wanted (They said they would sell 1500 and i believe demand had stopped at 1200s..). I agree it will go up, in 5-10 years when it becomes a car from another era. Right now they are stable at 300-350k which is less than MSRP of 10 years ago.

 

Yeah but you spend 100k in maintenance over these 10 yrs...

 

Just like all the other supercars...

 

Should be less than half that with 3k miles per year, assuming you don't abuse the clutch.

My Enzo and F40 are way more than that after only 5 years, and half the miles.

 

A friend had its clutch changed in Germany and it was around EUR 30k if I remember it correctly. Guess you are right: If you don't abuse the clutch. Both owners I know use theirs on an almost daily basis - so in 10 yrs. that's 2x the clutch or EUR 2 every time you change gears

 

so every time you change your gear you bank account is smaller with a few tens..

 

Ment to type Jim Hall not Jim Clark.

 

Just came back from a spirited back roads drive of the nearly empty roads of the Hamptons in my CGT. GOD what a monster that car is! And I just came back from a weekend racing my RSR at Daytona in a couple of "endurance races" and let me say with track biased tires that car would eat my RSR alive. Don't think I will be trading it in anytime soon for the 918

 

I concur with the CGT. It's the fastest car for the twisties, especially with the Pirelli tires. The Michelin tires were like driving on ice. Understeer is completely off the menu and you really need to push it hard for oversteer.

With good tires it's probably faster than the GT2 RS at the Ring.

 

Which Pirelli's did you get Bill as my ORIGINAL Michelins need replacing soon?

 

Cool new pictures of the roof area. Is the fuel filler on top of the roof or what is that round thing on top of the vent?
Also does anyone know what the small cut out is for? I am talking about the one just over the door on the top front corner.

Looks very interesting what they have done with the roof although maybe a little too complicated....

 

PZero Rosso. I'd we careful running on tires more than 6 years old, especially those.

 

Thanks...