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A year ago, I bought this McLaren P1 for 1.2 million pounds. And then I did something which made half of you very angry. I did a few cheeky modifications.
Mark McCann transforms his McLaren P1 with new color, wheels, and upgrades while reviewing costs and hybrid battery health after a year of ownership.
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Key Takeaways
- Modifying a hypercar can be controversial among enthusiasts.
- Running costs for hypercars are extremely high but vary between brands.
- Hybrid battery health is critical and expensive to maintain in hypercars like the McLaren P1.
- Independent specialists can provide quality service at a fraction of dealership prices.
- Hypercars push technological boundaries but may compromise reliability and cost.
What the video covers
- Mark McCann bought a McLaren P1 for £1.2 million and made controversial modifications.
- He plans a new transformation including fresh color, wheels, and a costly upgrade to maintain the car's hypercar identity.
- The video covers the full cost of running a hypercar after one year of ownership.
- Mark addresses concerns about the hybrid battery, which costs £120,000 to replace and has been sitting unused for 9 months.
- The McLaren P1, built in 2014, features cutting-edge hybrid technology pushing automotive boundaries.
- Mark gets the car serviced and the hybrid battery health checked at Ricky's RE Performance, saving significantly compared to official McLaren service costs.
- The service includes oil, filters, and a detailed inspection using original McLaren parts.
- He explains the dry sump oil system and other advanced engineering features of the P1.
- The video also touches on hypercar market values and running costs compared to other hypercars like Ferrari LaFerrari and Bugatti Veyron.
- Mark reflects on whether owning the McLaren P1 is a good business decision or a financial risk.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Modifications Overview
- 02:12Hypercars: Technology and Costs
- 04:58Brake Discs and Underbody Inspection
- 06:17Oil Filter and Dry Sump System Explained
- 08:44Hybrid Battery Health Check
- 12:56Car History and Exclusive Sale
- 14:56PPF Removal and Exterior Work
- 19:40New Wheels and Aesthetic Upgrades
- 21:54Sound System and Legal Compliance
- 25:45Running Costs and Market Value Analysis
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I took it from this to this. And you did let me know exactly how you felt about it. Well, today we're going to change it all over again. Starting with a fresh color, new wheels, and an upgrade which
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I'm struggling to justify the crazy cost. Sometimes this car looks like a 720S. So, we're going to make one important change to make this always look like a hypercar. Oh, and one more thing. The regge is definitely stopping.
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This video is about a lot more than just the looks. After a full year of owning the P1, we're going to add up the full cost of running a hypercar. Is the McLaren going to be a good business
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decision, or am I in trouble with the misses? Some rare cars have rocketed in price.
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$7 MILLION. $10 million sold at 16.2 and I'm going to find out if my car has done the same. This is where we are right now. And lots of you said that I did ruin it. So, we are going to start
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all over again. But before we spend a single penny, I have got one massive concern. This car has been sat in storage. And inside there is a hybrid battery which costs £120,000 to replace.
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And these cars need driving. And it's been sat still for 9 months. So, we need to get that checked before we go any further. The McLaren P1 was built in 2014, which scarily now is 12 years ago.
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The hybrid battery pack in my car is state-of-the-art. It was brand new cutting-edge technology.
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Basically stretching the limits and that is exactly what a hypercar is about. By the nature of what constitutes a hypercar is they're pushing the boundaries of things that have never been done.
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And this is true for most hypercars. The Bugatti Veyron was a masterpiece of automotive engineering. It smashed records for its top speed. And the Mercedes AMG1 has an actual Formula 1 engine to power it. Hypercars simply push the bar. Guinea pigs for future
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production. More extreme, more clever, more advanced than anything before it. But obviously that does make them expensive, very expensive, sometimes 10 times the price of a supercar. But pushing the boundaries sometimes brings a little compromise in reliability. So
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to start, we're going to give my car a bit of well-earned love. It's having a service and also having a hybrid battery health check, which if it needs replacing is £120,000.
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Ridiculous. Right, we are back at Ricky's RE Performance. So, we're going to do a service. Now, it's actually been 2 years in total since the last service. And when we've got a car like this where we have put, I don't know, 500 miles on the
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clock. Here we go. I feel like doing a service every year at such an amount of money at a main dealer McLaren service center, I just feel like it's a waste of money. Cars under the same thing as well that when
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you've got an older car out of warranty, just be a bit sensible and let's not waste money and waste fluids, etc. if it doesn't need it. So, we're having oils, filters, all that sort of stuff, but a health check. So,
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we're going to take the car apart, see if there's anything broken or damaged, which to be fair, there definitely shouldn't be because we haven't done that many miles since last time, and then plug in the battery. Now, if
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you remember last time, they plugged in and it gave a percentage and it was brilliant and there was a massive great big sigh of relief. Um, and fingers crossed we're at the same situation.
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Now, I originally contacted McLaren for a service. The price was about £8,000, but more importantly, we weren't able to film it. But the good news is Ricky loves a camera. He is a genius at working on fast cars and his hourly rate
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is not the same as a professional footballer. One of the reasons we chose the McLaren when we went hypercar shopping was the running cost. Still ridiculously expensive, but it was the lowest of them all. A Ferrari LaFerrari service £12,000.
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A Koenigsegg Jesko service £20,000. And a Bugatti Veyron service £30,000. But I'm interested to see if these costs are justified. Are the services more complex than a normal supercar? Do they take five times the hours to do? Do they
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use extremely specialist magic parts? Is the oil purer and more advanced to be the same price as liquid gold? The big question is why is it so much more expensive?
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Yeah. Oh my god. Oh, how good are the brake discs? Very different. One level brake disc that is.
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It's very cool to see underneath this car. So, they firstly carefully removed the biggest piece of carbon fiber I have ever seen. And then dropped the 710.
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There's definitely a lot of sump plugs and definitely a lot of oil. But is it worth that price tag?
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How does that work then? That's a leak off tube. That's lower than the carbon, isn't it?
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Yeah. It protrudes through. There's a hole in the FL. Yeah. Yeah. Just through there.
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Oh, it goes through the hole. Yeah. And then these two as well. Look.
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Oh, they stick through the holes as well. And they come through the holes. And there's two little nuts. Then there's three stick three things sticking out the hole.
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Yeah. Here we go. Ready for the Reese's mom joke. I mean, it's just bullion.
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I say character building. And also, I'm head of HR, so if he's got any issues, it comes straight to me.
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That's what I say. Yeah. Like they all kick off and I'm like I shag the boss at HR so she's going to side with me not you.
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What's the missy side? Yeah. The lads then remove the oil filter which weirdly is at the top of the engine which I'm struggling to get my little head around.
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So why is that all the way at the top there? Uh just how they run on these. Um so obviously they're a dry sump car so with a normal tank. Uh so on a normal car you would have the oil filter near near the
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bottom. On these where they're force-fed around the system they just put them at the top right. So all the oil would pass through that.
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Yeah. Everything goes through it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is very clever. We saw it similar with the Bugatti Veyron. When you have a wet sump, the oil sits the bottom of the casing. The crankshaft rotates knee-deep in oil which splashes, splashes
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and lubricates everything. But that creates drag which loses performance. But the P1 has a clever alternative. It has an oil tank which sprays oil to the crankshaft and all the other needed parts. Importantly, just the right amount of oil. So, less drag, more
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performance, lightweight, and efficient. Very cool, but very expensive. But that's what you would expect because it's a hypercar. However, it's still a pretty standard oil filter and definitely not gold-plated. So, new oil filter, both seals, new.
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So, is that a kit which comes with that? Yeah. So, they all come like this supplied. Um, there's your two sump buns with new copper washers.
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Yeah. Really? And then a new oil tank bun with it. New alloy washer. So, every time that's new.
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Yeah. Just replace it all. It's just something we do. So, new filters, new plugs, and fresh shiny slippery oil. And here is the saving that we have made. McLaren service is £5,000. Inspection, oils, filters, battery check, general maintenance, and Ricky RE Performance is
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£700. But importantly, there is still no compromise. Ricky has all the original McLaren parts, the exact same bits and oil that they would use at the official McLaren dealership. So, a good start to the revamp and refresh. Right, stress
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time. So as we know that battery, the hybrid battery is extremely expensive. When we bought it we took it to McLaren Manchester who did a health check on all the car and it passed with flying colors but that was a year ago. Now the
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health check on the battery, the hybrid battery gave a percentage of good or bad and obviously the higher percentage the better condition the battery is. Now a year ago that was on 90%. And at the time the guy said that that's really
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really good. And obviously with this I've looked after it massively. It's always been on the very
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house. It's ridiculous. So last year this time last year it was on 90%. Obviously it's going to have gone down.
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Um we just hope it's not too much of a jump. So, let's hope it's 80, something like that. And we've still got at least another year or two of that battery. So, fingers crossed we're looking for anything above 50. You know, after all the your
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mom jokes, I hope it's on 10%. Now, the hybrid supercar has been a very interesting subject. A lot of people are not a fan, and the prices have reflected that. Many cars have tanked in value.
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There seems to be no confidence in how expensive the repairs could be in the future. The cars also seem very complicated and extremely difficult to fix, especially without a main dealer.
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But the holy trinity just seems to be the opposite. My McLaren P1, the Ferrari LaFerrari, and the Porsche 918 seems to be just be going up and up in value. All three of these cars have hybrid batteries and also these cars were very
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early technology for the hybrid battery. So obviously that comes with increased risk and that is what I am worried about today. Does that very very very expensive hybrid battery need replacing.
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Right. This is stress. Am I am I to am I to paint a glorious picture or do you want to know?
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So you've had lost communication with IC module and over temperature. So it's obviously the back the motor unit has got hot at some point.
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So nothing I freak out about. They're they're stored. They're not new anyway. Yeah. So that's that could have been like that would have either been the island man. We did do um take it around silver.
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Yep. Any any sort of track work cuz of course how the batteries date as well. They do get bloody hot and have the motors.
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It's that hybrid battery which we need to check. But that's the one which is going to be the scary one. It's fine.
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Plug into it. Oh, there you go. Reference state of health 96%. Current state of health 90%.
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Absolutely brilliant. Exactly the same as it was 12 months ago. So that's because of always having it on charge. Like I do look after it.
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Yeah. Cuz it's so much money. Yeah. Yeah. That's a big stress off my mind. And it's a big thanks to my friend Ollie at Horsepower Stables for storing it so well over the winter. This news and that report will definitely positively affect
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the value of this car, which we will find out that number later in the video.
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Over the last few months, you have seen that we've been finding out the full timeline of my Bugatti Beyron, which was really interesting to see. So, I've done the same with the McLaren P1 chassis number one4.
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My car was first registered on the 31st of December 2015, New Year's Eve in Austria. In 2016, 2 years later, it moved to England. And this is where it gets really interesting because in 2018, its British owner entered it in the ultimate gumball
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rally. Here's a nice highlight. There's a McLaren P1 taking part. I didn't even know that was on the grid. Volcano Orange team 161. The cars do just keep on going.
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The Gumball is the most prestigious car rally in the whole world. And it's super cool to think that my car traveled 3,000 mi successfully and ended the rally in Tokyo. Then in 2021, it was sold by our friends Amari and then eventually to Tom
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Hartley. Soon after, it was sold to my good friend Mark Bailey, owner of Trade Center UK. Right. Warranty department.
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Yep. Actually, we can go to the source. See you later. Leave me out of this.
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He shipped it and enjoyed it in Monaco and eventually it came back to the UK and sold in 2025 to me. But importantly, that sale was through Harrods. And Harrods is the most exclusive store in the whole world. And my car is the only
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ever car to have been sold by them. And this is the final bit so far of the history of this car. Mark from Reddic went into the VIP section in Harrods and I paid them for the car. It was an
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unbelievable day for all our family. And since then, in April 2025, since I owned it, it was used on a Sideman video and then we drove it to the island of Man, which was an epic road trip. And we've
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also done a few laps around Donington and Silverstone. There's now 9,000 mi on the clock and I'd imagine every one of them in joy and happiness. And then it brings us to today. Time for a new visual transformation. Last time it was
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far from everybody's favorite, but I think this time it's going to be more to people's taste. I think that you guys are going to love it. So, first up is the interior.
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This is McLaren's interior quality. And this seat is just on there with like some rubber.
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And McLaren do not have the best reputation for its build quality. And there are a few places in this car which is showing it's 10 years of age.
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Max is here from Hawks Autoworks. If you chuck your head down there. Yeah. So what we're looking at is the carpet started to peel away from the carbon tub here.
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So is that glue? So, what it appears that they've used is like a double-sided tape, which I'd imagine just with the heat of it having like a day outside, it started to come away. So, what we can do
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is just get a contact adhesive and just put a light coat on either side and then we'll just push it back up and it should just hold it back in place.
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That is it. A common thing with these seats, you can probably see it better on the driver's side.
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Oh god. Yeah. What happens is that bolster gets dragged down and then it pulls it all down. So, what we can do is remove the cover, just again try and massage it back up into place.
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McLaren's have an amazing track record for their design of interiors in hypercars. The P1's older brother is called the F1. It's a mid-positioned driving seat with two passengers either side. It's super cool in this three-seater configuration. And the
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values, what should we say? It's done all right. A new world record for McLaren F1 at auction. $31,500,000.
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Sold. So, we've got the seat out of the car and we've managed to peel the cover back. And essentially, you can see here what has happened is the foam has just started to completely fall away. Um, this one's actually slightly worse than
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I expected it to be. So, we're just going to have to see if the best option is to remove the foam. So, therefore, it's not creating that nasty lump or if we can salvage it in any way. Um,
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there's no real in this situation, removing it would be perfectly fine. It's just what will give us the better job. My car seats were a new design 10 years ago, but like we said before, hypercar set the future, and my P1 seats
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are now available as an optional upgrade to any McLaren you can buy today. It's really cool that the P1 is still living in many cars that are enjoyed today.
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A bit of sticking and unrinkling and this now looks perfect again. Literally 10 years younger, which will help later when we get this car valued. Oh, that's so much better, isn't it?
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We're back to back to how it should look. Minimal creases. Some of the heavy ones are still there, but that's just because it's they've probably been there for years now.
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Yeah. Yeah. So, the passenger seat's like nearly perfect, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Next, it's time for a huge makeover. And I'm excited for this. It's time to change the color.
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It's like coming to the hairdressers and having having your hair dyed. And we've come to Onyx Automotive where we're going to add a new Avery Denison wrap to totally transform its look. But because it's a hypercar, it's already
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been awkward. So, I've met up with Harry already about this car. Now, ideally, we'd color PPF, wouldn't we?
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In an ideal world, yeah, but we can't because because you've got PPF on your car, and you don't want to take the risk of removing it.
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So, what's the risk which you've seen before then? Oh, just with any kind of high-end manufacturer, it tends to be that cars that are more kind of bespoke and kind of handcrafted tend to have more lifting issues when we uh take PPF
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off. So, it could literally fall back, could you? These super high-end cars don't have that problem because they're skimping on paint. There is a performance reason to why Harry has reservations about what we do here. Ferrari F40 had no door handle
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and the paint was so thin you could see the weave of the carbon fiber through it. All of this made it light, really light. Now paint is liquid and paint is heavy and this car was built to get the
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ultimate performance. So it simply gets just enough to make it look great. It's going to be a very thin coat and something we are not willing to take the risk with. So, the safest route we're going to take is to leave the clear PPF
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on top of the what orange is it called again? Volcano orange. Volcano burnt orange. Um, remove the black. This is just a wrap, isn't it?
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So, it's material. Let's remove the vinyl. Remove the vinyl and put a new vinyl on. Whilst I was here, I put up an Instagram reel to ask you guys what color you would like to see it. and please give that page a follow if you
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already don't as often we use Instagram to get your input into these videos. Now, first we need to remove the black vinyl and there is a small concern it could lift the original McLaren PPF which of course could peel off the
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paint. And Harry explained you never quite know which way it's going to go until you try. Meaning I suppose this could be very expensive.
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Wow, that's so different. Basing off the fact that how that vinyl's coming off, there was probably some kind of coating like remnants left on this car on the P.
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Yeah, just the way it's just coming off. You see, it's very, very easy. The next day, Onyx left the car out in our beautiful UK summer sun and unpeled the rest of the car. Luckily, only one piece of PPF was lifted and thankfully
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it didn't damage the paint. So, now the car is back orange. Let me show you the new color that I have chosen.
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That looks nice, doesn't it? Fan of that. That does look nice. It's going to have some color.
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Yes, it's orange, but for me, a much more modern color than the volcano. It's matte orange by Avery Denison to replicate this year's McLaren Formula 1 cars.
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And why Avery Denison? Avery is just a really high quality material, isn't it? So, like I say, we want to work with brands that are renowned and trusted.
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Yeah, trusted. Exactly. You don't want to you don't want to use some kind of offtheshelf cheap film. You want to use the best.
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Right. Perfect. This car is a pain to wrap as it's made of five huge pieces of carbon fiber panels. The front bumper, bonnet, two doors, and a gigantic rear clam. These panels are pure hypercar formed from carbon fiber to be extremely lightweight
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to save every gram of weight to make it fractionally faster, extracting every tiny bit of performance. And that is what a hypercar is all about. Obviously, these panels are special, but replacing them would be very, very expensive. If I
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reversed into a lampost or got rear ended by another car, it's not just the rear bumper. I would need a new complete carbon fiber rear clamp. And painted and fitted. That would be over £200,000 and I would imagine not easily
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available. So, I have an idea. I've called in on our friends Impulse to help reduce that risk.
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Morning. Morning. What's the plan today? Uh plan is to get a reverse camera on this bad boy cuz there isn't one at the minute.
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No, nothing there. Nothing there. You don't want to reverse into something in that. There you go. So, yeah. Um bit of a mission on these cuz you can't exactly get a cable route all the way through.
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But yeah, it shouldn't be too bad. Crazy. Often with performance cars, the more you spend, the less you get.
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Stripped out, lighter, and less parts. Somehow means more money. And it's similar with the P1. It has no parking sensors or cameras anywhere. And when you're driving it, you actually can see pretty much nothing. And I think this
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impulse upgrade is going to be perfect, especially when you see later. It works directly into the McLaren infotainment screen. Only trouble is it needs a wire from the camera to the display. which means gingerely and carefully lifting off that clamp.
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Obviously, hyper cars are very expensive, but when you remove the outer covers, you start to see its value. This is simply breathtaking. Millions and millions of pounds of engineering development. And back in 2014 when these cars were born, there was an epic three
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brand battle. McLaren, Ferrari, and Porsche. Welcome everyone to the hypercar holy trinity. In that door mirror, I have a 1 million Porsche. In that door mirror, I have a 1 million Ferrari.
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All three cars were similar in cost new, but they have been on a very different journey. When I bought my car a year ago, the Ferrari had exploded up to £3.5 million. The Porsche was sat around its original new price, and my car had just
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started to increase in price. And we will find out a little later how they have done in the recent crazy price rise, which we explained about in the last video on the main channel. If you haven't already seen it, please check it
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out. The rarity helps these values. As a rule, the rarer the cars, the better they keep their value. And the P1 had a very small production run of only 375 cars. So hopefully that will help us later. Now you can also see this
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beautiful exhaust, but we have a plan for that later. Impulse have now rooted the wires from the back all the way to the front. So this clamp can carefully go back on.
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Wrap and camera are now complete. Right, this is the first time I've seen the car. We're at Onyx Automotive. Right, we're not going to do a full reveal because you guys want to see it on that epic shot at the end, but god, it looks
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different. Looks amazing. Oh, I'm loving that color. Loving that color. Do you like it?
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Yeah. Flipping wicked. But it's the contrast now that that's what was hidden before, wasn't it? You couldn't see the carbon cuz it was like matte black and that is shiny.
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But that sort of like looks more gray. See that sound? Is that cuz we're going under attack?
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Okay. The question is what was wrong with volcano orange? Right. My beef with volcano orange is it's amazing and it's still there. Yeah, that's the thing. Like for everyone who loves Volcano Orange, I totally totally get it. But it's still underater. But
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for me, I feel like this car deserves a little bit more. This making no sense, is it?
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Not really. I don't like volcano orange. There we go. I've said it. Is it cuz you like matte colors?
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Yeah, matte. And I'm a chav and that color is a bit like sophisticated posh. All the things which I'm not which I feel like matte black, matte orange. Well, I can say my orange now, can't I? You've sort of seen it.
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This is going to look unbelievable. The wheels definitely do not match. Now, now let's move on to the next part of this upgrade, which is very painful for me, and I think you guys are going to agree.
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The P1 is obviously a hypercar, but even I will admit they all do look very similar. The P1, however, has a mode which you can switch it into called race mode. It lifts this huge spoiler and makes it look way more P1, but it's only
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meant for the track. When it goes into race mode, it also lowers the whole car by I think 40 mil. So, it's massive. And what that does then is just becomes unusable. Simply unusable on the UK roads with our speed bumps.
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Maybe the track mode wasn't the So, there's a company which does a software upgrade, which is what we need.
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So that is going to make this high, but importantly, it's not going to lower the suspension, so it still be at full ride height. So we've got the best of both worlds. We've got an erect, very, very aggressive looking rear spoiler, but
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then also a ride height, which still makes this car available to use every day.
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So it's going to be the best I've ever been. Only trouble is it's expensive.
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Now, this is my beef. Now, let's call it the Reddit chim. I'll be honest. I don't like buying water from an airport. I don't like buying fuel from services. I don't like buying an ice cream from an event. And simply because of the prices.
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You all know what I mean. And I think most of you will agree with me. And when we find out at the end of the video how much it's costing, you will think I'm mad and I think I am as well. So, as my
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spoiler was being done, let's swiftly move on to the wheels. Last time we did this, I got a little bit of stick. So, I'm not trusted to do it by myself. So, we're back at the Mecca, the ultimate
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place to come for your wheels and tires at Will Mania. I thought we were doing that.
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Is that next on the list? What are they called? And they're um spinners. They're called spinners. I was What are they called when they spin spinners? So, we're going to find some wheels. There's obviously every shape and size to choose
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from in there. I've got a little bit of idea what I want. Have you first ones that I see?
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Easy process. Should we roll with it? Hello Mark. How are you? Good to see you again.
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New wheel P1. Yes. So to me, I'm going to go straight with it. Yeah.
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I think the mistake Not the mistake. I love them personally, but mistake to a lot of people.
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Mistake to a lot of people, not to me. I think the problem was is they look quite heavy. And I think the car is quite dainty. Very curly. Very um nimble.
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Curly. Curvy. Curvy. Very curvy. And I think but they looked a bit heavy. Yeah.
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So I think this time we go a little bit more lightweight. A little less metal.
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I think when you think like Oz BBS, it's sort of like thin spokes. Exactly. Motorport racing look. And I think like if you go for something like this, I feel like you've got your your Lambo wheels, your your BMW wheels, your
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Rolls-Royce wheels, and I think we need to go a little bit more lighter. Yeah.
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See, I like these that but maybe a bit more round. Thank you. No, I will go.
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No, cuz you'll record my bottom. Yes. So, team dynamics that that t this wheel goes on all the touring cars.
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That's quite a small diameter, I guess. Or would that be a similar? They do this wheel 18 in and 19 in.
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What's that? That's uh 19 in. Okay. It looks quite small. Oh, maybe it's that.
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So, what the actual reason for it is, Mark, when you look at a wheel, your eyes naturally go to the end of the spoke cuz this has this lip around the edge. Your eyes sort of stop here. So,
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look smaller. Right about this one, Mark. Okay. So yeah, that's one two forge wheel.
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Like if I look at all those there to me spokes. Yeah, I think so too.
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Might look less weighty. I think what you said earlier. So that's probably similar similar amount of spokes to the OZ wheel, but I think a few less spokes. Something like that thing will work well.
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All right, let's let's figure out then. Let's do let's figure out how many spokes. Okay.
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So, what's that's what 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 16, right? Okay. So, a lot less than that then.
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So, how many spokes is that? That that looks like a nice number. 10. Then to compare, say another race style wheel.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. It's quite a common thing then. 10 spoke. Original wheels on the McLaren P1 are similar to what I'm trying to describe to Jordan, but I think we can make a really cool upgrade to the
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standard wheels themselves. Now, most hypercars are very race car, lightweight wheels, but with a single nut center locking fixing. We have seen before with the KTM, Wheel Mania can make a very clever cap, a center plate to cover the
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five bolt holes. Do we just make our own then rather than one off the shelf?
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Um, I think for I think the sort of two or three unique points you're looking for, I think that's sort of the only solution.
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Yeah, you've got to get a wheel that's going to clear the caliper wheel that's light the fake center look.
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There's not a single wheel on display here that's got fake center. So, we're going to do a wheel mania bespoke wheel.
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Yeah. 10 spoke. Yeah. Center wheel nut. Color black. We like to put McLaren badge on, I believe. Jane bought a set from eBay and stuck them on.
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Yeah. So you can get a McLaren sticker. She's just going to go to prison, isn't she?
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If somebody's got to go, somebody's got to go. I'd have a lovely holiday, wouldn't you? You all right with that?
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If mommy or daddy had to go to prison, which one would you send? Yes.
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Why though? And the following day, Jordan sent us these CAD visuals, similar to the original McLaren wheel, but with a little more detail to lighten the 10 spokes and with the important center bolt cover to make it look like a
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center wheel nut. And this isn't just for Mark and his YouTube channel. You guys can design your own wheel through the same process with Wheel Mania. Now, the next bit which I think will be a huge exciting upgrade, sound,
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right? So me and Jake just got the clam off. We did get some help from the neighbors just to lift it off. But now this is exhaust. So what we're going to be doing, we're going to be doing
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straight from the downpipes into like an Xpipe into then straight straight out into the tips.
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Now cars have a legal requirement aka boring to pass forot. And that's why road cars never sound as good as race cars. legal requirements to restrict emissions to save polar bears and noise to save our neighbors.
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I'm fed up of the noise. Personally, I've never been a fan of aftermarket modified exhaust as I like to play my life by the rules.
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So Matt from Nicromobium is making a more aesthetic aesthetically aesthetically aesthetically a better looking system and it's obviously still fully legal and friendly.
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First thing what we're going to do is we're going to make an Xpipe. The McLaren is a V8. Four cylinders on the one side and four on the other. And the exhaust gases travel from each side and exit at the back. But an Xpipe
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combines it all together. So what Matt is doing is making it sound better. Still totally legal, above board, squeaky clean, legitimate, valid by the book. We are basically wasting everyone else's time by keeping it genuine H. But it will add a bit more power.
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It's also titanium. Save a bit of weight and it will look even more epic. And as this video is about upgrading my car, it will look like no other P1 out there. A one of one. And also Nicrobium can also
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do this for your car. So you too can have a one of one. Check out how mental that looks. Now I don't know whether or not just to have them slightly spaced a little more.
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Now the main bit that you will see is the tips. And this is going to transform my car. It will add a bit of modern and aggressive, but also still classic. Matt then anodizes the tips to add a bit of
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color. And check out the finished street legal exhaust. Right, so we're all done now.
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All we need to do stick it on the car and put the car back together. All the hangers are done. Reinforced sound tubes, reinforced top hanger, and yeah, that's that's pretty much everything.
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And the only thing that you're going to see are the tips, which is like the main attraction anyway.
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Matt has also added these little tubes to send some of that noise back to the cabin. So, my totally legit exhaust pipe will sound a little bit better from the driving seat, which is really cool.
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Simply just a bit of fun, which I love. So, just want to give a big shout out for Matt and Nicrobium for pulling a couple of late nighters to get this finished in time for this video. Looking forward to showing you guys how it
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sounds and obviously that's identical to before and very very quiet. Hypercar values have been on a crazy journey over the last 12 months. A year ago the Laaferrari was 3.5 million and the Porsche 918 was under a million. So let
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me show you what has happened just 365 days later. A Laferrari has increased to £4.5 million and the Porsche 918 is now 2 million. Both have increased a million quid. So just think the owners every time they went to bed and woke up their
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cars had magically increased in value £2,800 a day. Hypercars are mindblowingly expensive to buy, to run, and to fix.
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But does it matter relatively if they keep increasing more than they cost you? And it's simply because they are the ultimate. But also, I think new versions from any brand are so expensive today.
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The old ones are almost just catching up. The Holy Trinity hypercars pave the way for the future of cars, and I hope my McLaren P1 has been on a similar price curve. I'm excited to get this car finished and find out. Right, good news.
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We've had the call from Jordan and the wheels are in. So, we've bought the beautifully looking car, which you'll see in full a little bit later. And I cannot wait to see what they look like.
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Now, when buying things, you have to be careful that you don't get scammed because last year $579 billion was lost due to fraud. And as you know on this channel, we are very heavily against scammers. Right, let's check out the
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wheels. Hello. Hi, Mark. So, the wheels have arrived. Wow, they look amazing. They look proper nice.
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They do. Dead chocolate. Yeah. So, I forgot we're being tight and reusing the tire.
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Yes, we are. Recycling. It's a big saving the environment. It's a big thing. Obviously, I've put that on afterwards.
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Yes, Jane got them from eBay. Jane got them. So, we're like putting the blame on Jane now, aren't we?
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Yes, that was it. Brilliant. If somebody's got to go down, right, it's getting swapped over. This is a big transformation.
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Thank you, Willmania. Let's get back to the house. Thank you. I mean that each and every one of you sat watching this video now.
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Without you guys, a year ago, I wouldn't have been at Harrods. It was an amazing experience for all of our family and we are so privileged to have had that opportunity and without our YouTube channel it simply would not have
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happened and here we are today. Now I know the majority of you guys hated the black wrap so I hope you can love the new version. Please everyone meet my new Satsuma.
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Right, what do we think? It looks absolutely amazing and even better in the flesh. Excited to see what Jane thinks of this. I have told you about the modifications we have done, but I'm going to show you how they all turned
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out because they do really add to this car. Right. First of all, we're going to hear the standard exhaust.
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It's quite loud. Sounds stock. It's quite loud. We also have this which is a quad lock um charging mount. And you literally put it in, click it. That is Reese's phone.
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Okay. And there it sits there perfectly. When I select reverse, we have parking camera. Right. One more. I don't need to shout. I got a mic on, haven't I?
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Yeah. Okay. One more mod. Right now we have two modes. We have this which is normal and then we also have race mode which extends the backwing looks epic but it goes too low and it's basically unusable. So we have invested massively
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too much money in a system which is going to leave that up but this is not going to be as low.
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Right. Can you see the difference? Yeah. Much better. Much better. You can use it. At least you can use it. It is epic. But have a guess how much it is. Do you know what would be really good now? Put it in
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the comments to how much you think that cost. I no cheating know. I want to put it in the comments what you think that is. So this is a very clever nerdy code writing ECU mod thing, which is
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obviously way above my pay grade. And I'm sure development cost was sizable to make an upgrade. I did want to do this a year ago, but I struggle to justify it in my head. And let's just be clear to
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what this hack has done. The spoiler goes up, ready for the track, but the suspension doesn't drop. Ready for the track. So, I can use this car around normal quality Mhm. British roads. But importantly, full peacocking erect rear
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wing. That was £10,800. And I can't wait to tell Jane. £10,800 quid. I don't feel like I am squeaky, but that is obviously a huge chunk of money. But I do have a plan to how we can offset it, and that is when
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we get it valued later with Cole. Now, all I need is the approval from my very supportive wife. It's going to look a lot different, I warn you.
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Say it how it is. That is not what I thought it was going to look like.
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Way better. No. Which bit? The orange. Don't you like it? Doesn't look orange enough.
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Right. It needs like just a little Yeah. Like the mattness of it is beautiful.
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Like the sheen on it. It's amazing, isn't it? It is beautiful. But it's just brown.
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When I look at that now, this material, I cannot tell that that's not painted.
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I love the wheels, though. I do love the wheels. I think the wheels were a very exceptional choice and I think you've done brilliantly there.
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That was a good idea of yours with the McLaren badge there. Yeah, my eBay stickers work well, didn't they?
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That that was a good idea. That was It looks me. Looks what me. Sorry.
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New exhaust. What? Are you having some sort of midlife crisis? I I'm really worried.
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I love it. So, anyway, let's look at the cost to run and own a P1 hypercar over the last 12 months.
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service £700. Interior tidy up £450 Apple CarPlay and reverse camera £2,100. Dwrap and rewrap £8,000. New wheels £6,500.
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Insurance that was £12,000 for the year, but I stored it for the winter 6 months, so we can have that to £6,000. And to store it for that 6 months was £2,000.
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Road tax £700 a year, but it was sorn for the 6 months in the winter at Ollies. So that's down to £350.
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Spoiler upgrade. I'm not going to say again because it hurts too much. So in total costs of £37,000, but there's a side which nobody talks about. My car didn't just sit doing nothing. It was borrowed for a few
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events, Formula 1, car shows, and video shoots. And that gave an income to me of £16,000.
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So in total, let's do the maths. One year ago, 2025, I bought this car from Harros for £1.2 million. But the big question, what is it worth today? Do you know when you said to me, "Buy the P1, you won't lose any money. It will
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never be worth any less. It's only going to go up." Yeah. We're going to test that theory now.
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Okay. Right. Let me show it to you now. We've had a revamp. Ah, look at that.
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So, it's a matte orange. It's got a different center lock wheels. Looks pretty cool, doesn't it?
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It does look good. It does look good. I still prefer the volcano orange, but it still looks good.
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I want to tell you about one little thing we've done. Okay. So, we have had this upgrade. So, that there is now up, but the front suspension is not up. So, that's sort of like a a software upgrade
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which we've had done. But £10,800. Worth every penny. Really? Will we see that back? When I tell you how much profit you're sitting on with that car, £10,800 is a is a drop in the ocean. I really I
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really wouldn't lose any sleep over it. Obviously, you know, we've seen that the um the LaFerrari's gone crazy. The Porsche 918's gone crazy. How does this McLaren P1 sit?
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Well, you paid 1.2 to me. Yeah. Literally whilst I've been in Spain, I sold a car which was quite low mileage, 1,700 miles, and I sold that for a little bit under 2 million.
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Wow. Okay. And I see there's one for sale now at 2.2 million with delivery mileage.
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Yep. So obviously mileage is a factor but on that car I think a delivery mileage car is not desirable because um it's not good for the battery that the car is not being used.
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Go on then. So what retail value is this car right now? I think your car Well, I don't think I know your car would absolutely fly away tomorrow for £1.75 million.
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Wow. So, that's over half a million pound profit. So, don't worry about the £10,000 spoiler uh option.
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Wow, that is just amazing. So, in theory, we have a cost of owning this hypercar for a year, which is actually a profit of a ridiculous £529,000.
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And we've been lucky enough to drive it, which included some amazing experiences. So, if you watched our last video, you will also know that that money earned would be tax-free as well. So, that is a double Brucey bonus. So, one year ago,
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we went to London and bought this epic car from Harrods. It was so scary spending 1.2 million pounds on a car. It was a massive gamble and you never know what's in the future. But luckily, it's turned out really good and it was
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probably the best decision I've ever made. But talking of decisions, the color. Are you like me, love the matte orange? Or are you like Jane and do not like the matte orange? So, let me know in the comments whether you do like it
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or what color you would prefer this car to be.
Topics:McLaren P1hypercarscar modificationhybrid batterycar servicingMark McCannluxury carscar maintenance costsupercar upgradesautomotive engineering
