Personally, I feel Jeremy (and a lot of other road testers) are full of it when they critsize such a crushingly capable machine for lacking "soul". In fact, they pretty much said exactly the same about the Ferrari 458 when comparing it to earlier Fezza's. Truth is, there will never be another F40; and if anything, something like the Noble M400 that comes close, they slag off for not having all the safety bits and refinement you have on a modern supercar.
I've driven a fair number of cars with "soul", but as far as I'm concerned, as long as the steering feel and throttle response are good (which by all accounts are superb on the McLaren), I'd rather that the car feels like it's glued together properly than it having too much "character".
And with regards to sound, the raw and shouty exhaust on my car gave me goosebumps the first few times I drove it, but driving it allmost daily, I got too used to the sound and wish it would stop setting off car alarms all the time... I imagine it's not that different if you own a Ferrari, glorious noise to most of us, but gets grating if you hear it all the time.
On top of that, with that amazing suspension set-up on the McLaren, it seems for the first time you really can have a balls-out supercar that you could drive down to Italy in one sitting. If was in the market to actually own a supercar (i can allways dream...) I'd certainly attach a lot more value to that than even the incredible lap-times or the madness of a Lamborghini or the "thing they can't quite name" that the Ferrari supposedly has.
What do you think?
I've driven a fair number of cars with "soul", but as far as I'm concerned, as long as the steering feel and throttle response are good (which by all accounts are superb on the McLaren), I'd rather that the car feels like it's glued together properly than it having too much "character".
And with regards to sound, the raw and shouty exhaust on my car gave me goosebumps the first few times I drove it, but driving it allmost daily, I got too used to the sound and wish it would stop setting off car alarms all the time... I imagine it's not that different if you own a Ferrari, glorious noise to most of us, but gets grating if you hear it all the time.
On top of that, with that amazing suspension set-up on the McLaren, it seems for the first time you really can have a balls-out supercar that you could drive down to Italy in one sitting. If was in the market to actually own a supercar (i can allways dream...) I'd certainly attach a lot more value to that than even the incredible lap-times or the madness of a Lamborghini or the "thing they can't quite name" that the Ferrari supposedly has.
What do you think?