2 years ago
I am no stranger to McLaren. My first memory of the brand was when my father bought me a Guinness World Records book, I was perhaps around 6 or 7 years old, and we were going through it together and learned that the McLaren F1 was listed for breaking a top speed record. Fast forward a decade and a half, and I did my first McLaren factory tour in 2016 with my father. Fast forward a few more years from that – 2019, and I was actually driving a McLaren for the first time; the 570s in Bahrain. Since then, I’ve driven many of the British supercar brands’ models including the GT and 720s Spider. Last month, I was back in the UK and met up with a good friend, Shayan Rahimi, who happens to be an Executive Board Member of the largest supercar club in the Middle East, SuperCarsMajlis. He loves McLaren. So, I arranged a private guided tour of MTC (McLaren Technology Centre) for us. Our tour guide, Amy Woodhouse, was a superstar. There wasn’t anything she didn’t know about the brand or its history. Her passion for McLaren was infectious. The building that houses MTC is an […]
4 years ago
Gulf Insider spends time with what’s been called “the world’s greatest supercar”. By Charlie Cooksey I remember visiting McLaren’s factory in Woking back in the summer of 2015 and being impressed with its beauty – spacious modern architecture on the edge of a lake set within the rolling hills of the English countryside. Everything was state of the art and spotlessly clean – you could, as the saying goes, ‘eat your lunch off the floor’. I felt the pride and innovation of the McLaren workforce and the great lengths the engineers go to improve every product for speed, lightness, safety, and to make the world’s finest performance machines. I have kept good relations ever since, to the extent McLaren kindly offered me a striking bright orange 720s Spider to use as my personal transport when they learned I’d be visiting the UAE over a four-day long weekend last month. It would have been rude to have turned down such an enticing offer so on arriving in Dubai, I went and collected this thrilling machine from the Dubai Autodrome. Getting into the 720s, silly me had forgotten this car doesn’t do ‘normal doors’ – it sports the gull-wing doors. Getting in […]
2 hours ago
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