BECAUSE CLOTHES maketh the man, McLaren issued me a drivers suit to strut around in during its April press event at Silverstone Circuit in central England, while I waited to drive the company’s latest ne plus ultra, the Senna. Woefully underdrive is more like it.
This was a rare audience. The F1 racing and luxury sports car concern based in Woking, England, will build a mere 500 of these zero-altitude aeroships, which are all already sold, thank you, for about $1 million apiece. Many will then disappear into private collections...