Over the last three years, this very fast, very rare, and very brown McLaren F1 built in 1995 has been driven a total of...19km. As of 2024, its odometer shows 410km, making it a time capsule. Or time machine, considering it’s capable of over 380kph.
We first saw this exact car back in 2021, where it was sold at Gooding & Co’s auction for a whopping $20,465,000 bearing just under 390km on its clock. Now it’s come back up for air via RM Sotheby’s, which plans on selling it via private auction this month. Fair to say it’s lived a privileged life, averaging 6.4km per year since 2021.
You’ll know everything there is to know about the McLaren F1: 6.1-liter BMW V12, 627hp, six-speed manual, rear-wheel drive, Gordon Murray (who ‘fixed’ the issues he had with this car in the outrageously good T.50), Le Mans winner (in motorsport trim), bonafide ’90s legend, and so on.
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It’s the only brown—Creighton Brown—F1 of the 106 McLaren built across all iterations, features a light tan and brown interior, and comes equipped with custom-fitted luggage matched to the interior, a tool chest and tool roll, and a one-off TAG watch inscribed with the car’s chassis number (029).
“Priced at nearly $1 million, it was the most expensive car ever offered for sale at the time,” said Shelby Myers, RM Sotheby’s head of private sales. “Despite this, true enthusiasts could easily justify its eye-watering price tag considering the innovations and technologies it utilized by Gordon Murray in his uncompromising pursuit of creating the greatest driver’s car of all time.”
It comes with yet another eye-watering price tag, because RM Sotheby’s thinks it’ll sell for well over $20 million (at least P1.14 billion) when the sealed bid auction begins on May 13.
NOTE: This article first appeared on TopGear.com. Minor edits have been made.
