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21. Buy a McLaren for a five-figure sum
As this is written, there is an MP4-12C for sale from a reputable dealer for £104,950, and no funny tricks: it’s right-hand drive and appears not to have been crashed. Yes, it has done 32,000 miles in the past four years, but so what? What this means is that you can probably buy a 12C for a five-figure sum now. And although the 12C’s reputation has suffered by comparison with more recent McLarens, it needs to be remembered that McLaren moved heaven and earth to keep their customers happy and kept all 12Cs up to date with the latest software enhancements and so on. What this is, in other words, is an ultra-rare British carbonfibre supercar with a 616bhp engine for little more money than BMW will charge for a new M6 Gran Coupé. And that has to be a bargain.
22. Drive without a destination
Got a car you enjoy driving? Then ask yourself if you’ve ever set an alarm for dawn on a summer’s morning and gone and driven purely for the hell of it. And if the answer is ‘no’, you have no idea what you’re missing. Freed from the tyranny of a timetable and the looming spectre of your destination, you will feel invigorated and liberated, never more so than when you find yourself stuck in a queue of traffic and turn off onto another road. Any road. It doesn’t matter; for the first time in your motoring life, you’ll be totally in charge.
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