The Macs are back: Testing a pre-owned, maker-approved McLaren - The National

It is, in every respect, like new, except for one thing: its price. As you may or may not know, the 12C (the “MP4-” prefix was sensibly dropped by McLaren in 2012) was replaced more than a year ago by the 650S – a bona fide supercar that remains one of the world’s very finest. Along with Ferrari’s new 488 GTB and Lamborghini’s Huracán LP 610-4, it has set new standards, and despite my misgivings about its front-end styling, is a car I would dearly love to own. There’s only one problem, and that’s the enormous cost of getting one – the entry point is more than Dh1 million. But here’s the rub: that 12C in Abu Dhabi, which is every bit as good as a 650S in almost every respect (and actually looks much prettier), could be yours for Dh495,000. In three years, it has lost half its value. Almost any new car loses a huge chunk of its asking price over the first two or three years, but Dh500,000 is an enormous amount of money for the majority of us. Simply put, that 12C has cost its owner a whopping Dh36 per kilometre in depreciation... For those of us with more sense than money, however, that 12C could represent an extremely sound purchase because, as with many of these kinds of cars, the first full production McLaren will no doubt soon reach the bottom of. Source: www.thenational.ae