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http://jalopnik.com/rowan-atkinson-just-sold-his-twice-crashed-mclaren-f1-f-1710189175

 

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A select few rich, famous and amazing people have been privileged enough to call themselves McLaren F1 owners, but arguably the most famous among their number was British comedian Rowan “Mr. Bean” Atkinson. That’s because he crashed his, twice. Apparently that didn’t hurt the F1’s resale value much.

CNBC reports that Atkinson has sold the dark burgundy car for a cool £8 million, about $12.2 million. He originally purchased the car in 1997 for as much as £640,000. While Atkinson is now sadly F1-less, he did make a huge profit on the sale.

The good news is that although he can no longer cruise around in one of the greatest sports cars of all time — and still the fastest naturally-aspirated car ever made — he can’t crash his again, either.

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In 1999, he damaged the hood by driving it into the back of a Rover Metro, as one does in England. Then in 2011 Atkinson crashed the car into a tree and a road sign, resulting in an infamous and insurance company-infuriating $1.4 million repair bill.

Atkinson solid his car through English specialist car dealer Taylor & Crawley, but its new owner has not been disclosed. Don’t fret for him too much, though — he still owns an NSX, a Jaguar MK7, an Aston Martin DB2, a vintage Ford Falcon, a 1939 BMW 328 and a Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupe.

Your 18-year-old, twice-crashed car will probably not sell for $12.2 million. Just so you know.

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well, at least he took it out for drives quite a number of times and really enjoyed it ... not gathering dust in someone's "museum"

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Which kuku bought a car at more than 10x the original price after it has crashed twice? [hur] [hur] [hur]

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Which kuku bought a car at more than 10x the original price after it has crashed twice? [hur] [hur] [hur]

This is nothing as compared to Ferrari 250 GTO.

$54m if I am not wrong. Original price was 18k back in the 60s.

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I was always wondering what happened to the car after that crash, was it repaired?

Guess that answers my question!

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Even if he did spend £600k on each repair, making the 2 repair at 1.2m,still very good profit.

 

Carbon fibre body and chassis. I think crash liao cannot be easily repaired. Most likely it's replaced with a new one.

 

How about maintenace? So $pecialised. The mechanic fly to the car owner to service the car. LoL...

 

If you got a car like that would you bare to sell? I think he's selling to recoup his losses.

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Carbon fibre body and chassis. I think crash liao cannot be easily repaired. Most likely it's replaced with a new one.

 

How about maintenace? So $pecialised. The mechanic fly to the car owner to service the car. LoL...

 

If you got a car like that would you bare to sell? I think he's selling to recoup his losses.

http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a7958/it-is-impossible-to-total-a-mclaren-f1/

 

A normal service cost £8000.

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It is the same rationale of collecting used panties and smelling it.Buyer pay for the value of former owner,not the merch.Poor people collect panties.Mega rich collect Mclarens.None of active members here reached the stage of collecting used Mclarens yet. [laugh]

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http://jalopnik.com/rowan-atkinson-just-sold-his-twice-crashed-mclaren-f1-f-1710189175

 

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A select few rich, famous and amazing people have been privileged enough to call themselves McLaren F1 owners, but arguably the most famous among their number was British comedian Rowan “Mr. Bean” Atkinson. That’s because he crashed his, twice. Apparently that didn’t hurt the F1’s resale value much.

CNBC reports that Atkinson has sold the dark burgundy car for a cool £8 million, about $12.2 million. He originally purchased the car in 1997 for as much as £640,000. While Atkinson is now sadly F1-less, he did make a huge profit on the sale.

The good news is that although he can no longer cruise around in one of the greatest sports cars of all time — and still the fastest naturally-aspirated car ever made — he can’t crash his again, either.

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In 1999, he damaged the hood by driving it into the back of a Rover Metro, as one does in England. Then in 2011 Atkinson crashed the car into a tree and a road sign, resulting in an infamous and insurance company-infuriating $1.4 million repair bill.

Atkinson solid his car through English specialist car dealer Taylor & Crawley, but its new owner has not been disclosed. Don’t fret for him too much, though — he still owns an NSX, a Jaguar MK7, an Aston Martin DB2, a vintage Ford Falcon, a 1939 BMW 328 and a Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupe.

Your 18-year-old, twice-crashed car will probably not sell for $12.2 million. Just so you know.

 

 

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The car was sent back to Mclaren for the repairs and rebuild.

I'm sure they know how to put it back together as good or even better than new.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/giant-bill-fixing-rowan-atkinsons-mclaren-135622964.html

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.classicandsportscar.com/galleries/rowan-atkinsons-mclaren-rebuild

 

 

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Carbon fibre body and chassis. I think crash liao cannot be easily repaired.

 

Not easy but not impossible. The CFRP shell on the i8 and i3 are left unpainted for that very reason. So that in the event of an accident where the CFRP shell needs to be fixed, the exposed weave pattern will allow the techs to bond in new materials correctly.

 

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Not easy but not impossible. The CFRP shell on the i8 and i3 are left unpainted for that very reason. So that in the event of an accident where the CFRP shell needs to be fixed, the exposed weave pattern will allow the techs to bond in new materials correctly.

 

 

 

Talk about i8 and i3. If in an accident rebuilding the CFRP would probably be too expensive or when the car reaches its 10th year COE is up. How is it going to sell for scrap? Apart from parf it has no metal to scrap hence no scrap value. CFRP is not going to the recycling bin. I dun think it can be recycled, can it? It will become what old tires become, can't be recycled, can't be broken down, ppl have to come up with ways to reuse it coz there are getting too many.

 

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Talk about i8 and i3. If in an accident rebuilding the CFRP would probably be too expensive or when the car reaches its 10th year COE is up. How is it going to sell for scrap? Apart from parf it has no metal to scrap hence no scrap value. CFRP is not going to the recycling bin. I dun think it can be recycled, can it? It will become what old tires become, can't be recycled, can't be broken down, ppl have to come up with ways to reuse it coz there are getting too many.

 

 

 

95 % of the materials used to produce a BMW i3 can be recycled.

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I am sure Mr Bean's hearing must have been damaged substantially since he drives it regularly.

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