The McLaren Senna Is an Insane $1.8 Million Supercar

This is a McLaren Senna and is the latest McLaren

supercar

following the P1 which went out of production a few years ago. The Sena has it all, nearly 800 horsepower, a 0-60 time of under three seconds, and total focus. In track performance, this car also costs a

million

dollars if you're lucky enough to buy it new. The current market value is more than one and a half to two

million

dollars and today I'm going to review it first, a little overview. I mentioned that Sena followed up the

mclaren

p1 and it's the latest in

mclaren

's definitive series of crazy, crazy

supercar

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The Sena features similar numbers to the p1 and both look absurdly ridiculous, fast, crazy and expensive. The Senate went up for sale last year. and production will be limited to 500 units for the entire planet. Now the engine in this Sena is the same four-liter twin-turbo V8 that McLaren also puts in the 720, but while the 720 has only 710 horsepower and 570 pound-feet, the Senna has about. 790 horsepower and 590 pound-feet and if the extra power wasn't enough to distinguish the Sena from the 720s, there's also the looks, the looks have been controversial to say the least, some people say it's ugly with that huge rear wing and this ridiculous thing. front overhang, but McLaren says it's all functional for the best performance on the track.

I'll look a little closer at those things in a second for now back to the numbers 0-60 in 2.8 seconds a top speed of around 210 miles per hour and a current market value of between a million and a half and two million dollars and today I will show you all the peculiarities and characteristics of the definitive McLaren. First I'm going to take you on a tour of the car and then I'm going to take it out on the road and drive it and then I'm going to give it a dig score and for more of my thoughts on the

senna

click the link below to visit autotrader.com oversteer where i have also compiled a list of the most expensive british cars currently for sale on autotrader before i start two quick thanks for this video one is to mclaren houston where the owner of this car bought it the owner tells me mclaren houston was great when it came to sorting out the car and so far for fixing it also my sincere thanks to xpel here in san antonio who gave me this fantastic location to film this video.

This seine is completely wrapped in an expelled paint production film so nothing damages it and there are so many weird things about this car. cuts, gouges and panels that I can't imagine how long it took the expelled people to finish anyway. Now, let's move on to the quirks and features. I'm going to start off with the Senate's quirks and features with my three favorite quirks. and that means starting with the windows now I'm not talking about these windows because you have windows in your car that look like these although not exactly the same because this one is split in two I'll get to that instead I'm talking about these windows yes, what you see down here at the bottom of the door is not just a small black panel but rather a window, a lower window to complement the upper window, this door has two side windows and the lower window faces the ground, so when driving downtown, you can look through the lower window and see the lane lines on the road or a little of the wheel of the car next to you while driving down the street thanks to the lower window. the bottom door, which is just fantastic. peculiarity and then we move on to my number two favorite peculiarity, which would be the front compartment.

Now I'm going to show you this and you probably think I'm going to open all this, but it doesn't open. Instead, it just opens this little panel, but there's no latch inside the car to open it, so you're thinking, well, how do you do that? You do it with a keychain no, no, you feel your hand raised about three quarters of the way up. on the top left you push down and then it opens randomly, then you remove this piece of carbon fiber and that reveals a couple of caps, these are fluid caps for the steering fluid, the windshield washer fluid and the windshield washer fluid. transmission, everything under this compartment here when you're done, you just put it back in place, push it down and then it goes back into place.

The hidden method of opening the hidden compartment with the hidden fluid caps, but my favorite feature of the mclaren sena is between the seats. where you see a blue can you are thinking well, what could a blue can be doing inside this car? Oh well, you see this car is designed for racetrack use, so what you're supposed to do with that blue can is fill it up. with water, then you can run a tube from the container to your mouth and then have drinks while you're on the race track. The theory is that you don't want to have to take your hand off the wheel and reach to pick it up.

Grab a bottle of water and it distracts you while you're on the track, so you just have a bottle and a tube in your mouth and you can drink now. You or I would probably call that a water bottle with a straw. McLaren refers to it as the McLaren Special Ops pushes the drinking system, they need McLaren Special Ops to come in and give them a bottle of water with a straw, but that's this blue container between the seats now, before continue with the peculiarities and characteristics of this car that we need. To discuss the price for a second, I have the window sticker for this car.

The base price is 958 thousand dollars, but the total price is just 1.1 million dollars. This car has 140,000 options and that includes basically anything and everything you can think of. and it's all very expensive, for example that little push to drink system costs an extra six thousand seven hundred and ten dollars as an option. McLaren charges you six thousand seven hundred and ten dollars for a bottle of water with a straw, very seriously, anyway, I'm going to get We'll get back to some of the other crazy pricing options later, but for now let's move on to the other quirks and features, and that means starting with the key.

Now take a look at this car key, it looks pretty standard, it has three buttons. the top one is the lock button the middle one is the mclaren logo which is the unlock button I guess you press the logo to unlock your mclaren experience but it's the bottom one that I like the most, you can see it's like the front of an angry

senna

and if you press that all the lights on the outside of the car turn on, I guess so you can find your Sena in a parking lot you press that again and the lights turn off so you can just tap it to turn it on and off repeatedly, which I find very very cool now, the other thing worth noting about the key is that when you turn it over you can see that it is finished in carbon fiber with this little s logo for senna, the cost of That $2195 compared to a standard back of a key just to make the back of the key that will be in your pocket most of the time look a little cooler than a regular key.

Now next we move on to entering the seine, specifically how the doors open when you approach the door, you can see that it's like a maze of crazy cuts and crevices everywhere, but there is a specific one that is underneath this gray panel. There's a little cut out here that you put your finger in, push up and there's a little rubber pad on the top you press on it and then the door opens like a supercar door should and when the door opens you can see That the door window situation doesn't just end with the ones I've already shown you, there is also a roof window, so this Sena has a normal side window similar to what you would have in your car, then a window that looks towards the ground and then a window that looks towards the sky.

The door has three separate window areas, which is just crazy. but that's what you get if you configure and spend a lot on door window options. Now one of the first things you notice when you open the door is that inside the door frame there is a little plate here and this is the plate that tells you what number your car has and unlike some car companies that just say which has one of 500, this car is individually numbered and that plate shows exactly where it is in the Senate production sequence, which is really cool to see below.

We move inside the Senate to review the quirks and features of the interior, of which there are many, starting with simply closing the door. When you look at the door it is raised, you can't see an easy place to lower it, but there is a small door handle next to the bottom window, stick your hand in there, pull and then the door comes down relatively easily, in fact it is a pretty light component now, once you're inside this car, the first thing you really focus on is the seats that this car has. These one-piece carbon fiber sport bucket seats that are very tight to keep you in place when taking tight turns on the race track apparently you can also order a wider seat if you don't fit in these, which could be true . for some drivers of this car because they are really tight, grippy and tight, another thing with the seats worth mentioning, you can see that this car has normal seat belts, but around the seats you can also see that it has a harness racing, in fact, that is an option.

You can get a six point racing harness and the owner of this car decided to do that because he tracks him, he really uses his core and so he wanted that racing harness to hold him in place on the track much better than a standard seat belt. . Obviously, some Sena owners won't do that, but it's an available option if you want it, and speaking of available options, the craziest thing about the seats isn't how tight and grippy they are, it's not the six-point harness, it's the headrest that has a little s logo again for senna, that's an option, of course it is, and the cost is four thousand three hundred and ninety dollars yes, that's right, 43.90 just having a little s logo on the headrests seems a little expensive now, next interesting article What's worth noting with the seats is that the seats move manually, you pull them back and forth with little levers.

I do it to save weight. If you had power seats in this car, it would be heavier and then it would be a little slower on the race track. The nice thing that happens when you move the driver's seat is that this central control compartment moves with the seat, which is a good idea because it's always the same distance from your hands and you can never move forward or backward depending on where you are. The seat is in place now, if you look in this little control compartment you can see three levers on top, those are the transmission levers you have d and r, they drive in neutral and reverse, you push them down to engage each gear , that's pretty simple if you scroll down.

From the shifter switches you have three separate buttons, the top one is the launch button, which activates the launch control, the next one is the auto start/stop button, because even this car has auto start/stop, it will turn off only at traffic lights to save fuel and then the one below. One is the emergency lights. Now you look at those buttons and you might be thinking where exactly the engine start/stop button is. You have the home button in the middle. They have prioritized the start button over the engine start/stop button. The mark of a true. sports car, but how do you turn this on?

It turns out that the engine start/stop button is here on the roof, next to the rear view mirror, if you want to start the car, press that button and that's what turns it on now. A lot of interesting things happen when you start this car, but one of the most interesting is the fact that the gauge cluster automatically rises into place. Check this out, it moves from its sleeping position to a raised position to give you all the most important gauges you need when you turn off the car, the gauge cluster does the opposite: it turns off and then automatically folds back into its sleeping position. suspension, ready to activate the next time you start the car again.

That's a cool little trick. Now, in the same vicinity of the engine start/stop button on the roof, next to the mirror, you have the power window switches. You can see them up there. They are not on the door panel. not in the middle, they're on the roof in this car, that's where they decided to put them and if you press them you can roll down the window, except you really can't. The window of this car is divided into two and only the lower part. slides down, it's a very, very small opening, as you can obviously see, this is not a car that you're going to want to go through the driveway because you're not going to be able to get food or drinks through that small opening.in the window, but if you want to roll down the window in the center, that's all you get and that's not the end of all the interesting elements in the roof area of ​​this car, another one is the door locks, you press that small button and locks the doors and You also have career mode.

Now the career mode is quite interesting. To access race mode, you first press this active button on the central control stack and that activates your ability to control what mode you're in, then you press race mode. You really have to confirm that you want to go into race mode, you have to hold it down now, once you put the car into race mode two very interesting things happen: one, the gauge cluster folds back into its sleeping position, you see on top. In the gauge cluster, when folded, there is a small screen that will show you only the items you need to know most, such as engine revs, for when you're on the race track, rather than confusing and distracting you with all sorts of Things you'd find it in the normal fully raised gauge cluster position, which is a good idea.

Now the other thing that happens when you go into race mode is that the car automatically drops an inch to get as close to the ground as possible so it can hug the corners as hard as it can and when it's lowering you can see that it actually shows in that It displays exactly how far you go in millimeters and what full percentage it is to go all the way down and enter race mode. It's fun to see that percentage go up as the car goes down. Now next another interesting button in the roof area, here is this little button.

I can see with a fan that the button is for the climate controls. If you press that button, the climate controls appear on the infotainment screen in the center of the car and when those climate controls appear, I love this diagram that allows you to direct where you want the fans to send the air, it's not just a person or a seat, but a person with a racing helmet on because this is a track car and therefore you can adjust the location of the fan according to that diagram, which is very clear. little easter egg in the mclaren climate control system now the next interesting element in the roof control area, this is where the door opening to the left or right is.

You have these little plastic latches, if you pull it, it's an electronic release. the door swings open and then you push the door all the way and that's how you open the door to get out of the car. What happens if the electronic trigger has failed? McLaren has thought about that and there is a manual trigger. the door jamb behind the seats on each side, you can pull that and that will manually release the doors so you can get out and finally our last interesting item in the roof control area up here are the buttons to turn on the dome lights, there is this little rubber pad, you just touch the light button and the dome lights turn on individually.

Now, coming down from this roof control area, I want to go back to the center control stack and this active button that I mentioned before if you press the The active button, like I said, allows you to enter race mode, but the button active also activates the switches right above it, which are the drive modes on the left, you have the drive mode on the right, you have the powertrain and you can see they have three different ones. c s and t configurations for sport comfort and track now, next we move on to another interesting component of the senna which would be the storage and specifically the fact that there is none and I mean none, there is no trunk in the front, there is no trunk in the back rear, there's no glove box in this car there's no little net storage compartment behind the seats there's no storage in this all you have is this little center console compartment that's not even covered and then front To it, you have another center console area where you can put things that take up all the storage space in the McLaren Senna.

Now, you know what I mean, this is really a track car. That being said, it's worth noting that the key does have a storage area. There's a nice little leather. key bag mounted here in the middle and you can place the key there while driving your senna and then you can look at the back of the special 2195 key that you paid more for now, another interesting item that you will find in this car. You will notice that between the two seats behind them there is a camera and that camera is not like a dash cam, but rather it is part of a three-camera system that is meant to record your laps so that when you are on the track you can turn it on. the camera system will record you doing your laps and then you can look at the footage and say, "Oh, I was slow this far, I didn't make it to the apex here, whatever it is, this car comes with a lap recording camera system in Built-in race track if you pay." extra of course, now I want to move on to this, which is a cute little zipper bag that I found under and behind the front seat.

Now if you look at it, it says in the McLaren first aid kit and it also includes. The warning triangle required by law that all new cars must have in some foreign countries. Now, when you open the first aid kit, the first thing you find is this, which is a rather strange piece of first aid. I'm not sure how you can save someone's life. With that, of course, that's actually the tool to remove the center locking wheels. This car doesn't have traditional lug nuts, but rather has center-lock wheels like many high-end sports and racing cars, and you can see the area around it. the center lock wheel is painted red, this is not standard but it is an option and the cost of this option is 3659 dollars just to paint this small area red on all four wheels, that is expensive but it looks pretty good now there's another non-first aid item in the first aid kit and that would be this, this is what I call the tool and the tool is a very important item for your sena because it allows you to access this compartment, this compartment back here is where you access the oil if you want to add more check the oil level you open this compartment but you need the tool to do it they don't allow anyone to open the compartment only someone who has the tool now talking about compartments around the back of the sen , it's worth it Keep in mind that you can't open the engine cover and access the engine compartment, even if you have a Senna.

Instead, it's bolted into place and you have to take it to a McLaren service center and they know where to unscrew it and take it out. so you can't really access it, you can look inside and see the engine, but you can't go in there and start playing with things, I guess McLaren decided it was better to leave that to the trained professionals, other interesting compartments in the back The rear of this car is behind the driver's door, there is a small compartment there, which is the fuel door, where the fuel is placed. It's pretty simple, on the other side, there's another compartment back here and I think this one is for the coolant, funnily enough, although the door is in the same place and the same shape as the fuel door.

It opens differently. You can see that it opens down instead of to the side like the fuel door. If you open it and fold it down, that gives you access to this lid. Unscrewing it and adding the fluid seems simple enough now, next step still outside the car I want to move on to a discussion of its styling and specifically I want to address all the cuts, slits, openings and holes throughout the exterior of this car. I just sent a photo of this car to a friend of mine who doesn't like cars and she said it was crazy looking, it looked like the kind of kid's toy that has a remote control and your parents accidentally step on it, which I think it's a great characterization of this car it's just ridiculous it's certainly not beautiful the owner of this car totally agreed with me it's not a beautiful car but mclaren says this is all functional these air intakes in the front They are specifically designed to direct the air in a certain way, just like all the others.

Probably the craziest is the small air passage behind the steering wheel and tire. You can see there's a giant hole back here and what ends up happening is the tire kicks up rocks and then they end up at the bottom of the door. So when you open the door, stones always fall out every time you drive the car, but again, McLaren claims this is functional and they say the same thing about the rear wing, which is really huge, the biggest rear wing I think I've ever seen. . Seen on any car, it looks absolutely crazy, but again they say this is all functional to provide downforce which helps keep the car on the ground firmly on the race track when you drive.

McLaren says this all adds up to almost 1800 pounds of downforce which is a huge amount and really important for racetrack driving and in theory that's why the car looks like that and next let's talk about the spoiler because it's really a wonder about this car, it is absolutely huge and its only purpose is not To provide downforce, that is not the only thing it does when braking hard, the wing will also rotate almost 90 degrees to add more drag and help the car reduce downforce. faster speed and apparently works well. The brakes on this car are absolutely crazy if you look at the numbers.

This thing has a similar top speed from zero to 60, it's the mclaren p1, but it breaks much faster and obviously the wing is a component of that, but it's still absolutely huge, one of the biggest wings ever ever seen on any production car. larger than many of the wings on many race cars, since I'm on the topic of the wing, there are two pretty interesting options that go along with the wing on this car, under the wing you can see that it is painted blue and you also have Ayrton Senna's signature below. The cost of making that six thousand six hundred and seventy-three dollars to put it under the wing, which no one will ever see except when leaning up under hard braking.

You also have the little logos on it. side of the wing again for senna the cost of adding those 4 390 just to put a couple of logos on the end of the wing although once again i must admit it looks very very cool and next step first just look at the car from this angle and tell me it doesn't look like one of the craziest cars you've ever seen, it's a crazy angle on this car, but anyway, below are a few elements on the rear that are worth pointing out, one is the roof intake, like the mclaren f1 and the p1 there is a little air intake on the roof that goes over the roof and sucks in air that way which is cool.

You also have in the middle here at the back the exhausts that are up instead of down like most other cars I love cars where the exhaust takes priority over the license plate these are the cars that really know what matters and Of course, in addition to looking good, the exhaust sounds amazing too. Listen to it and there's another cool element on the back. This car is the brake lights and turn signals. They share this very thin transparent strip. First see what it looks like when it's off. You can't even tell this thing has brake lights or turn signals.

Now, with them on. They're actually very shiny and look great, but it's this little hidden stripe built into the back of the car. I think it looks very, very good and then moving on to the lighting on the front of the car, it doesn't look at all. it looks just as good as the rear, you have the turn signals sticking out as if projecting forward and then the headlights are actually further back, more integrated into the body and that only serves to underline what I think is the biggest problem style of this car, which is this huge front overhang, it really is surprising to what extent this car continues forward after the front wheels stop, usually high performance cars have very small overhangs to minimize, like excessive bodywork, that kind of thing, this just goes on and on and on and once again I'm sure it has a functional purpose, but it does seem a little unusual, especially compared to most other sports and performance cars and finally coming back center, I want to talk about some of the display technology in this car.

I already showed you the folding gauge cluster screen and showed you some of these screens in more depth in my review of the mclaren 720, which shares fairly similar systems with the sena. I'll link to it in the description below but there are some additional cool features I found on this car and I want to start with the rear view camera, now you put the car in reverse the rear view camera comes on in the gauge cluster and it's surprisingly good , good resolution, big wide screen and reallyIt shows where you are backing up, it's pretty good, which is nice in a car like this because the visibility is pretty bad and if you hit something it will be expensive.

Now there's also a feature here called track telemetry. If you go in here you can enter your favorite track and then record your lap times and then every time you come back to the track you can compare how your laps went with the previous ones which is a cool feature. You can see that this has already been completed because the owner of this car has already taken it to the track. At Circuit of the Americas in Austin, he plans to track this thing, which is how it was intended to be used. I respect him a lot.

Now, another interesting thing in track telemetry: you can select the weather for your particular track day and the theory here is. obviously if it's wet you're going to be slower and then when you go to compare lap times later you can say well, that one was wet and that's why it's slower, the funny thing is that in the weather section they give you the option. of snow, so if you ever take your center to the slopes on a snow day, you can enter a snow lap into the system. I also like the fact that there are separate options for cloudy and overcast, only the British would distinguish between cloudy and overcast you know?

It's looking pretty cloudy today no, no, I think it's cloudy, so you have those two options of course, neither of which really matter if you're on the racetrack, so it's a full tour of the quirks and characteristics of the mclaren senna. It's time to take it out on the road and see how well it drives, driving the Seda. This is something extraordinary. Your first impression is how crazy the door windows are looking down. The first thing is you're scared because you're so close to the road, obviously, that's how all these cars are these low-slung supercars, but now you see it and it's scary.

This is pretty impressive. I don't know if I've ever been in a road car before. the interior was so crazy, I mean there is nothing in this interior that is even a tenth of normal, the doors, the windows, the crazy windows here, everything above you around you, the wing and the bat, it all seems crazy, it really feels like the craziest thing I've ever sat through. Inside, oh, the reverse came out a little, I guess we have to warm up the tires. I can't believe I can look out and see the road and these door windows are so ridiculous and everything about this is a totally crazy experience compared to any other car.

It just seems crazier. I've been in a lot of supers. Cars have never felt as crazy inside as this with the door windows and you see the blue hydraulics and the seat hugs you, you have the engine behind you and it's like what's happening the sound is oh my god oh Well then, get up, the good people of San Antonio, enough for today, the sensation of speed in this car is one of the craziest I have ever felt in my life, simply because the windows of the doors, the height to the ground, the sound, what is it?

This thing feels so dirty. The thing is, I know it's a really valuable car, but I feel so safe driving it that I don't feel like you know I'm in danger of messing something up. I don't feel like one wrong move could send him over a railing. One thing the owner told me is that people react like this thing is crazy and that's certainly something I'm discovering. You don't know, a lot of people don't know. Not many people still know what it is. The car is, but you see the wing, you see the look and it doesn't matter if you know it or not, you know it's crazy, that's all you need to know.

People see it and wonder: What is this madness that surprises me? the fact that it can get a little jittery the tires spin a little bit is just a huge amount of power. I guess I'm actually interested in driving it a little bit on normal streets like I am now just because, what's that, I mean a lot. A lot of people have talked about what this car is like on the track, what it's like on the road, and the answer so far is a really hard ride, a really, really, really, really hard ride, even the little bumps in the wheel line. lane, you feel like, oh, you drive by people and they just look at you like you're Batman, which you actually are, and the steering is just incredible, it's so sharp, so good, the owner of this car takes very Seriously follow up, in fact he told me he had never driven it on the street before.

I only towed it to track events so I'm doing some of the first street miles with this car and I will say it doesn't belong here but it's still very exciting to drive here. You know, you see this thing and you see the specs and I was thinking, oh, another McLaren. You know, the same engine is a 720. Will it really be that different? Well, the answer is that it is on another level of crazy and you can't help but smile when you drive this one. car looking at the door windows and all that and feeling it and hearing it, but you also can't help but worry about the value, certainly, but it really is incredible, it really feels like a special, unusual and exciting car, definitely more than 720, that Car already has a crazy sense of occasion, this thing is somehow even beyond that and I just love it, and that's the McLaren Senna.

This is truly an incredible vehicle and a worthy supercar in McLaren's definitive series of its flagship and debut cars. It's also one of the craziest and most expensive cars on the road today. Styling wise it's not beautiful but it's certainly distinctive and I've come to appreciate how bold, daring and ridiculous it actually is and that 2.8 second 0.-60 time certainly helps anyway, now it's time to give it a try. al senna a doug score starting with the weekend categories and style. This is probably the most difficult category to qualify of all. The seine is not beautiful or even really attractive, but it is functional, eye-catching and very.

Great, I spent a lot of time on this and gave it a 7 out of 10, which is the lowest of any supercar I've tested. Next up is the 0-60 acceleration in 2.8 seconds and it gets a 10 out of 10. Handling is tremendously excellent and it gets a 10 out of 10. Fun factor, the car is so incredibly fun and exciting that it easily gets a 10. Out of 10. The fun factor is also really very high, this is one of the coolest new supercars, if not the coolest. and scores a 10 out of 10 for a total weekend score of 47 out of 50. Below are the daily categories and features.

The Senate is reasonably well equipped, especially with technology, and scores a six out of ten for comfort. The Senate has a tough ride, although that's by design and gets a two out of ten. The quality is decent. The materials are excellent and it loses only in possible reliability problems. Then it gets an 8 out of 10. Practicality is practically non-existent and it gets a 1. out of 10. finally value and has gone up a lot more than the 918 spider, not as much as the agera rs, but it's also a lot cheaper to buy; it gets a 7 out of 10 for a total daily score of 24 out of 50.

Add it up and Doug's score is 71 out of 100, which is good, but falls a little behind the 918 Spider, Chiron and Koenigsegg. The truth is that the Senate is as good as those cars, maybe better than some, but no. It doesn't look that good and when you spend a million dollars on a car, that's a pretty big deal.