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From F1 to P1, it's pretty much a greatest hits collection of McLaren super- and hypercars!
Legacies are created over time and with vision. A vision shared by a group of like-minded men and/or women, or an individual refusing to let go of it and go above and beyond to see it materialised. One such individual is Mansour Ojjeh, the Paris-born Saudi businessman and passionate lover of cars, who sadly passed away in 2021. Through his unique vision, the automotive world saw the rise of a legendary name in the field: McLaren. Founded as a Formula 1 team by New Zealander Bruce McLaren in 1963, it became a household name on the F1 grid through a relentless thrive for wins and titles. Although the team had already tasted title-winning success, it was Mansour’s influence that grew it into greatness. His legacy still lives on today, as through his vision and that of others around him, the team would become one of the most successful ones in F1 history, as well as a formidable sports- and supercar constructor, with the F1 as the brand’s crown jewel. Through that same vision and passion, Mansour Ojjeh would build one of the most amazing collections of McLaren road cars, which is now up for sale through Tom Hartley Jnr Limited, a specialist car dealer and broker from the UK.
Mansour Ojjeh’s legacy
Mansour Ojjeh has left an indelible mark on the automotive industry, and more specifically, McLaren and Formula 1. Born in Paris as the son of a businessman, Mansour Ojjeh studied in California before taking over his father’s role as CEO of TAG (Technique d’Avant Garde, the TAG in TAG Heuer, then also owned by Ojjeh). Through TAG, he connected to the fast-paced world of Formula 1. First, as a sponsor to the Williams team, and later as a part-owner of the McLaren Formula 1 team. And this is where his legacy truly starts, as he proved pivotal in making the British F1 constructor one of the greatest in the sport’s history.
Through TAG, Mansour Ojjeh financed the development of a new turbocharged V6 engine, built by Porsche, which resulted in three consecutive F1 World Constructor titles, as well as three consecutive F1 World Drivers’ championships (Lauda in 1984, and Prost in 1985 and 1986). Throughout his entire career connected to McLaren, the team amassed 7 Constructors titles and 10 Drivers titles. He’s also partly responsible for taking McLaren to the road, as he, team principal Ron Dennis and legendary F1 engineering mastermind Gordon Murray drew up the idea of the F1. This led him to step away from collecting cars from other manufacturers, selling his collection of rare Ferraris, including a 250 California Spyder and 288 GTO, in favour of cars from Woking. All but the F1 and Senna GTR are kept in factory-fresh, unused condition. They have been maintained by McLaren themselves, a service no other collector has had the pleasure of receiving.
Collection highlight
The star of the entire collection is, of course, the McLaren F1, despite it not even being the rarest car on the list. In fact, if you bypass the fact that all of them are painted in Mansour Ojjeh’s personal shade of Yquem orange (later renamed Mansour Orange), there are a good few cars in the collection that are much rarer than the F1. But, as you will undoubtedly agree with me, the F1 is much more than just another supercar. It’s, well, the F1. A car that reshaped the supercar industry altogether, at a time when it was perhaps still in its infancy. Many attribute the term ‘supercar’ to the Miura, and cars like the Ferrari F40 or Porsche 959 as the epitome of an era. However, the McLaren blitzes them all, and it wasn’t even intentional!
The thing is, the incredible 386kph top speed the McLaren F1 clocked on March 31st, 1998, was more or less a byproduct of what Gordon Murray envisioned; the greatest handling sports car ever made. The F1’s claim to fame isn’t pure unadulterated speed, though, as it was the first road-legal car built by the McLaren Formula 1 team, as well as the last production car to win at Le Mans outright. And before you lash out, everything after it was built as a race car first, and then homologated as a road car. For the McLaren, it was exactly the other way around.
Mansour Ojjeh’s McLaren F1 is the last ever produced, the final one of 106 cars in total to roll out of the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, England. Sure, the headlights might be misted over, but that’s a minor detail in what looks to be a pristine car otherwise. In its almost 30 years of life ‘on the road’, it racked up just 1,810 kilometres, making it one of the lowest mileage cars in the series. It also comes with dedicated fitted luggage, complete service/warranty history, Facom tool chest, the onboard tool roll, additional steering wheel and gear knob and so on. To state this is one of the most important McLaren F1’s produced would be stating the obvious, really. Even though all of them are special.
Looking past the F1
However, there’s more to the collection than the stellar F1. There are three McLaren Senna’s for instance, a car built purely for track performance but with a license plate. Well, for two of the three at least. Named after Ayrton Senna, a close friend of Mansour Ojjeh and a three-time World Champion with the team (1988, 1990 and 1991), the Senna, Senna GTR and Senna LM represented the peak of McLaren’s engineering prowess in the mid-2010s. Then there’s a Speedtail, a three-seater driver-in-the-middle road-legal 1,050bhp missile with a top speed of 250mph (403kph). There’s also a Sabre, an Elva, a P1 and P1 GTR and so on. It really is a Greatest Hits collection from the very first road car McLaren ever built, right up to some of the latest ones.
The full list of cars is just beyond belief and puts together some of the brand’s finest and rarest cars. Going through the list also shows that all are finished in Mansour’s personal and unique colour of orange. Even if you were their most valued client, you were politely told “No” when asked if you could have your car finished in the same shade. The colour is so special to McLaren that they kept it exclusive to Mansour Ojjeh and named it Mansour Orange.
The complete list of cars, in chronological order, that’s up for sale:
- 1998 McLaren F1 – last of 106 produced
- 2015 McLaren P1 – last of 375 produced
- 2015 McLaren P1 GTR – last of 50 produced
- 2015 McLaren 650S Le Mans – last of 50 produced
- 2016 McLaren 650S Can-Am Spider – last of 50 produced
- 2016 McLaren 675LT Coupe – last of 500 produced
- 2016 McLaren 675LT Carbon Series – last of 25 produced
- 2016 McLaren 688 MSO HS – last of 25 produced
- 2020 McLaren 600LT Coupe – last ever produced
- 2020 McLaren 600LT Spider – last ever produced
- 2020 McLaren Senna – last of 500 produced
- 2020 McLaren Senna GTR – last of 75 produced
- 2020 McLaren Senna LM – last of 20 produced
- 2021 McLaren 620R – last of 225 produced
- 2021 McLaren Sabre – last of 16 produced
- 2021 McLaren Speedtail – last of 106 produced
- 2022 McLaren 720S Le Mans – last of 50 produced
- 2022 McLaren 765LT Coupe – last of 765 produced
- 2023 McLaren 765LT Spider – last of 765 produced
- 2023 McLaren Elva – last of 149 produced
The entire collection is curated by, and up for sale through Tom Hartley Jnr, a specialist high-end and vintage car dealer/broker in the UK. This is the same company that handled the sale of the Bernie Ecclestone collection not too long ago. Putting a number on the entire collection is not easy to do, considering all of them are the last in the series produced, whether a production run was 16 cars or 500. The McLaren F1 alone is worth tens of millions, with the last known example to change hands being chassis #029. This was sold at auction in 2021 for a then-record price of USD 20,4 million and sold again in 2024 for an undisclosed sum. Considering the fact that this is the last one ever made, it is one of the lowest mileage examples, was owned by Mansour Ojjeh and is finished in Yquem/Mansour Orange, it could very well set another record!
For more information, please visit TomHartleyJnr.com.
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