► Meet Go Hiramatsu, who commutes in a McLaren P1
► Used for the daily drive and weekend track fun
► Keeps peace with the neighbours by using EV mode
It seems, as time marches on, that many new sports cars, supercars and ‘hypercars’ are being increasingly treated as assets – rather than machines to be savoured and enjoyed.
Every time a new model or limited-edition version is announced, a queue rapidly forms. A lucky few get in, but many of those buyers then simply deposit their cars into climate-controlled cells. There the cars sit, until several months later when they’re sold for tens of thousands over list. At that point they might even see the road – or get put into even longer-term storage.
Go Hiramatsu, however, is not someone who considers his cars purely as investments to be preserved and traded. He owns one of arguably the most important and prominent of the recent ‘hypercars’ – the McLaren P1. Does it sit in a plastic, temperature-controlled bubble indefinitely? No. He drives it every day, commuting to work through Tokyo traffic. Come the weekend, it gets unleashed on the winding rural passes and – to allow it to really sing – the Fuji Speedway circuit.
Watch the video to find out why, and what the P1’s like to live with – and check out the R32 at the 2:23 mark!
Let us know in the comments below which car, if you could pick from any, that you’d want to live with on a daily basis – and why…
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