Shmee is such a posh ■■■.
“The PPF seems to have done some protection”
Shmee is not the owner. He’s an online journalist who test drives fancy cars on YouTube.
Geoffo:
Shmee is not the owner. He’s an online journalist who test drives fancy cars on YouTube.
Might not own the senna but owns at least 7 others hence the private plates.
youtu.be/tfXqvB5wx3s
Shame Asda didn’t drive straight over him
Geoffo:
Shmee is not the owner. He’s an online journalist who test drives fancy cars on YouTube.
Shmee is most certainly the owner. He is the heir to his families retail fortune and they own well known high street brands like Burton and Dorothy Perkins.
SnaggleTooth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O275R0oDDg8How do you tell your boss you just hit a £1,000,000 hyper car■■?
Car driver not entirely blameless, sitting in a blindspot even in slow traffic is foolish…
What a prick oh dear what a shame
He’d be ■■■■■■■■ himself if he worked for one of those ■■■■ take/crappy firms who try and charge their drivers for damage eh? 
Geoffo:
Shmee is not the owner. He’s an online journalist who test drives fancy cars on YouTube.
‘Test drives’ a hyper car by taking it along the M25 in traffic at 40 mph on the way to Goodwood and reckons the small V8 hairdryer sounds epic.While I’d have been so uncomfortable sitting in that racing ■■■■■■■■■■■ by that point I’d willingly have let the artic drive over it. 
Cant quite work out how it hit some of the recessed panels without chopping off the mirror, but guess it depends on angles.
Not sure expensive cars should be banned, but low down ones should have more indication that they are there. If you can lose a Mondeo down the side of a truck, then one of these will be virtually impossible to see.
Actually very small cars should be banned too.
As for insurance - there was a Bugatti smashed up a few years ago when the 1000hp one came out and although they were paying a fortune for insurance, it was still only 3rd party! Was impossible to get fully comp at the time.
This looks fixable, for a fee. Not in the makers interests to have them too expensive to fix or people won’t buy them.
sunsetdriving:
I dread to think how much that will cost to repair, will Maclaren even want it repaired?Feel really bad for the truck driver, it doesn’t actually look that bad considering its a lightweight car against a HGV and if it was a normal car it would be a couple of grand at best but a Maclaren Senna?! it’s as good as writing a blank cheque, insurance company will be dragging its heals with that one I bet.
On a separate note I wonder what it costs to insure a supercar like this one per year? if a basic 10k costs say £400 a year on average then a supercar worth 1 million must be around £40,000? complete stab in the dark, not sure insurance comparisons compare these sort of quotes do they?
Very likely third party insurance only offered and that type of buyer can usually afford to just scrap the thing and buy a another one.Bearing in mind the chance of a 50/50 blame game by the insurers.While classics offer the best performance per insurance pound equation.IE 165 mph 6.0 litre V12 Jag less than £300 pa full comp. 
harrawaffa:
Geoffo:
Shmee is not the owner. He’s an online journalist who test drives fancy cars on YouTube.Shmee is most certainly the owner. He is the heir to his families retail fortune and they own well known high street brands like Burton and Dorothy Perkins.
The inheritance tax bill will cost more than a fleet of McClaren’s. 
Even ordinary insurance claims get silly expensive, and the insurance cos go along with it.
Example…a woman reversed her van into my partner’s parked car and sadly dented and scraped both doors.
She admitted liablity…all cool…had the same insurers as my partner… a local bodyshop in town said they could repair it for a few hundred quid and a couple of days. We were fine with that…they are a good company, and my partner could have managed without her car for two or three days.
Then the insurance company said…no you must take it to our approved repairer 20 miles away, and we will lend you a courtesy car. My partner said OK, so long as it is an economical car and (as we live in an area of very narrow lanes), not some fat car that will get scratched on the hedges).
So, the car repair depot asked if she could bring the car in on a Friday pm(funny time to start a repair). The courtesy car tuned out to be a bloody great 4x4…which she refused…they were very offended, but eventually found her a smaller car. They kept the car for 3 weeks, and at one point said they had sent it to another branch and didn’t know where it was! The final cost must have been in thousands, and all this involved only one insurance company, a simple repair and no injury.
ETS:
Or disallow owners of multi-million £ cars to claim on others insurance for costs other than bodily harm inflicted on them (other party still needs to be investigated/prosecuted/fined if at fault)
A cap on vehicle damage payouts isn’t the same thing as saying that anyone should get nothing.There might be some case for the former but not the latter.While I’d guess that such a provision could eventually make some types of expensive high end specialist cars unviable to own putting their manufacturers out of business.Great that will help the economy of Woking and Goodwood.While the same could obviously be said in the case of insuring the value of a truck and its load.
What next no one can insure a 4-5 bedroom detached house if any ?.
Wildy:
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They seem to act like magnets.
There seems to be a pattern here.Small mid/rear engine wannabee super cars are toast but proper front engine V12 and US Muscle cars seems to be spared. 
ETS:
Why would you drive a 1 mil. car on a public road/motorway? Just get it to a racing track and drive it there. There needs to be a cap on the value of vehicles allowed out on the public road network (they should be allowed to be transported onto/inside reinforced trailers though) to keep overall value of insurance claims and by extension, premiums, lower. Or disallow owners of multi-million £ cars to claim on others insurance for costs other than bodily harm inflicted on them (other party still needs to be investigated/prosecuted/fined if at fault)
Ridiculous! I bet as a percentage of claims supercars are a tiny amount. If someone wants to drive an expensive car on the road then they should be able to.
ETS:
Why would you drive a 1 mil. car on a public road/motorway? Just get it to a racing track and drive it there. There needs to be a cap on the value of vehicles allowed out on the public road network (they should be allowed to be transported onto/inside reinforced trailers though) to keep overall value of insurance claims and by extension, premiums, lower. Or disallow owners of multi-million £ cars to claim on others insurance for costs other than bodily harm inflicted on them (other party still needs to be investigated/prosecuted/fined if at fault)
Perhaps we could emulate soviet era russia where everyone drove a Lada Riva!
switchlogic:
If someone wants to drive an expensive car on the road then they should be able to.
Sure, as long as the general public isn’t liable for the 100 000s of potential dmg to their car bound to happen the more often they do that. Imagine a 70 year old geezer backing into one of these - heart attack guaranteed, or a female pregnant driver etc. No one needs that extra stress in their life Why would you want to drive a 800hp or however many it has car on a public road anyway? Are you going to go over 70mph? That’s like, 2nd gear in one of these. Going to ASDA for groceries? I can’t think of a good reason to drive an ultra-performance car outside the track other than wanting to show off, which is fine by me just don’t come crying with your £70 000 bill for a smashed rear tail-light and a bit of spoiler damage when my brakes turn out to be not as strong as yours
ETS:
switchlogic:
If someone wants to drive an expensive car on the road then they should be able to.Sure, as long as the general public isn’t liable for the 100 000s of potential dmg to their car bound to happen the more often they do that. Imagine a 70 year old geezer backing into one of these - heart attack guaranteed, or a female pregnant driver etc. No one needs that extra stress in their life
You really are a dribbling moron…
Who the hell are you to tell people what they can drive and how they can spend their money, never read such rubbish.
FYI, if you don’t know how strong your brakes are then back off a bit and pay more attention, like a professional driver would if they knew they needed the gap, then maybe you can avoid that fantasy bill you mentioned… 
Nite Owl:
ETS:
Why would you drive a 1 mil. car on a public road/motorway? Just get it to a racing track and drive it there. There needs to be a cap on the value of vehicles allowed out on the public road network (they should be allowed to be transported onto/inside reinforced trailers though) to keep overall value of insurance claims and by extension, premiums, lower. Or disallow owners of multi-million £ cars to claim on others insurance for costs other than bodily harm inflicted on them (other party still needs to be investigated/prosecuted/fined if at fault)Perhaps we could emulate soviet era russia where everyone drove a Lada Riva!
It’s clear he’s been on the vodka before he hit the keyboard so he’ll probably think it’s a good idea to go along with his own masterpiece of utter pony…
ETS:
switchlogic:
If someone wants to drive an expensive car on the road then they should be able to.Sure, as long as the general public isn’t liable for the 100 000s of potential dmg to their car bound to happen the more often they do that. Imagine a 70 year old geezer backing into one of these - heart attack guaranteed, or a female pregnant driver etc. No one needs that extra stress in their life
Still ignoring the fact that these cars probably have next to no impact on our insurance premiums. The general public aren’t responsible for damage to any vehicle, people who cause at fault accidents are. And generally your premium goes up because you’ve had a claim, not depending on how much that claim was, so I don’t see the extra stress. You just want a nanny state probably out of jealously that you can never afford one
switchlogic:
Still ignoring the fact that these cars probably have next to no impact on our insurance premiums. The general public aren’t responsible for damage to any vehicle, people who cause at fault accidents are. And generally your premium goes up because you’ve had a claim, not depending on how much that claim was, so I don’t see the extra stress. You just want a nanny state probably out of jealously that you can never afford one
Ignoring the fact that probably…is it a fact cos if it is then it doesn’t have an impact and if it isn’t then well…neither of us knows for sure whether they do or don’t affect our insurance premiums as we’re both too lazy to go do a research. What is undoubtedly a fact is that these cars do contribute towards a higher average value of vehicles out on the public roads which is likely taken into consideration, I would strongly believe, by companies who sell auto insurance products. You can guess who pays a higher health/life insurance premium in total or on average per player, a club from the Championship or one from League 2 even if both are likely to have some low value players.
Don’t worry, I’m not jealous of your Aventador and I don’t have to be able to afford to own one if I’m able to rent one (on a proper racing track) for an hour every other weekend.