The Greatest Car Ever Made | McLaren F1

The McLaren F1 is widely accepted to be one of, if not THE best road car ever made, and as big a claim as that is, I cannot justify disagreeing. This is the story of the greatest car ever made.

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[robair]

Quick point, (which is me being pedantic- sorry) the thermal conductivity of gold isn't the reason for its use in the engine bay. It would be illogical to assist heat transmission into the composite structure. It's the reflectivity that McLaren employed gold for. That way, all the heat stays within the engine bay (specifically in the ambient air) to be swiftly replaced by cold air using fans and ducts, rejecting the hot air before it can radiate into the bodywork. Clever, but total overkill using gold leaf!

[ChaosqueenMaddy]

Ive been lucky enough to see an F1 up close more than once. God, it never gets old

[banga]

5:13 the Daihatsu Midget II is a fine example of another centre seat 90's super car

[unpass]

love this car. all the 1996 JGTC coverage is terrifying to watch knowing a schumacher was behind the wheel of one

[OJB]

Modern supercars are technically better, of course, but considering the time the F1 was made, it cannot be beaten. An absolute legend.

[dearzsombor]

The gold is not for conducting the heat like a heatsink, it's for "insulation" reflecting the heat (infra radiation) away, like on spacecraft .

[rouxgreasus]

9:51 I knew there had to be a twist there




and there was. Keep those vids up!

[DisillusionedGaming]

Small correction. Honda was willing to be involved but did not want to develop anything bigger than a v8. To reach the power figures that were the benchmark. They would have had to resort to incorporating forced induction, which Murray was not wont to do.

[thgir]

I used to live near Herb Chambers (owns a big chain of car dealerships in New England), he recently sold his F1 but around 2013 I'm pretty sure I saw him driving his on the road lol. Not too often you see a McLaren F1 in the wild.

[Dr.Bigglesworth]

Well, in 1966 Ferrari made a mid-engined "road car" called the 365P Berlinetta Speciale that had the same three seat arrangement. Not a production car, but the claim was "road car"...

[Alx.c]

Watched all you're videos keep up it very enjoyable! Keen to see the channel grow

[slideways]

Came from for discord, stayed for the first minute because gt music, but by the end the high quality production got me here, a lot better then the crap I’m putting out

[bmwracer]

Gordon Murray's masterpiece of design and engineering. It'll always be the best McLaren ever made, IMO.

[dayalanvelan]

Would love to see a proper video on the bmw m5 lineage. God Bless from South Africa.

[AsinineComment]

12:10 - "If you have seven figures to spend..." then you'll _still_ be disappointed. With a minimum asking price around ten million quid, you'd better have *eight* figures to spend. 😬

[jubu]

The silver f1 high downforce car wearing nz plate ended up in a ditch on the anniversary run a while back. Amazing car. My twin brother sent me a photo at his work carpark of all these mclarens, where they kicked off the run and he didn't realize that one car was worth more than the other 20 combined haha.

[tihspidtherekciltilc]

As a gen X participant, not by choice, and a fan of Jay Leno and his contribution to saving pieces of automotive history it's my opinion that if anyone deserves this car it's Jay. How many other people would give a total stranger, or two, a ride in one of these? Then again I got a ride in a brand new Testarossa when the owner caught me and a friend sticking our heads through the open windows as it sat running while the owner was picking up dry cleaning which brings me to a suggestion, car noise as these cars play music.

[mikeisaacs]

I was like 16 when this car came out I had my Motor Trend and Car and driver magazines and I was blown away with the seat in the middle

[michaelacosta]

McLaren isn't a luxury car maker.... It's a racing team that sometimes makes road cars

[SvenElven]

This is surely common knowledge among race nerds, but I just learned that the GT1 and GT2 class cars were allowed bigger fuel tanks the higher WSC and P2 classes (100 litres vs. 80). Which goes a long way towards explaining how the lower class cars like the F1 GTR could win outright victories against LM prototype cars in an endurance race.

I had been wondering about how that was possible!