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The F50 is almost 20, but its years flying under the radar are now emphatically over. The F50 is the Ringo of the quartet – The Beatles would have been lost without him – mainly because it arrived in a world redefined by McLaren’s virtuoso F1, cost roughly half as much (£329,000 to the Mac’s £540,000), and was all done at 202mph compared to the McLaren’s 240. Its V12 shared some DNA with Ferrari’s stunning 641/2 (Alain Prost’s 1990 F1 car), and the engine was also a stress-bearing member, but Gordon Murray’s singular supercar vision eclipsed the Ferrari as surely as it eclipsed everything else.
I remember all this vividly, having tried both F1 and F50 back in the day. The McLaren, a commercial failure at the time, now sells for upwards of £5m. The F50, limited to 349 units, saw values dip below £200k, but you’ll need £800k for a top example now.
