Aspen is a small town in Colorado where fabulously wealthy people get together to wear fabulously expensive Western clothes and feel generally fabulous while avoiding anything that even comes close to skiing. Only in Aspen will you see a woman in full mink ride a gondola up the hill, only to get a cocktail at the lounge. But after all, it's hard to look good while skiing at Aspen because you might pizza when you're supposed to French fry, and everyone knows that's a solid recipe for a bad time.
And now, as if to taunt the rest of us mere mortals down at the base of this fabulous Mount Olympus, someone in Aspen has somehow decided they don't like their brand-spanking-new 2019 McLaren 600LT enough to keep it and they've gone ahead and listed it for auction on Bring a Trailer.
Winter Beater
The car in question is almost fresh off the lot, with only 840 miles on the clock of the twin-turbocharged 3.8-liter V8 that's mounted amidships and produces 592 horsepower and 457 lb-ft of torque from the factory. But this example received an ECU tune and an aftermarket exhaust system installed immediately after its purchase in Denver, meaning true output could be significantly higher—though not as high as the immediate $100,000 bid placed only a few hours after the auction went live.
Listen To Me
Just give the cold-start video above a listen to discover the kinds of pleasures that await beneath all that carbon-fiber skin—this specific 600LT was optioned from the dealer with over $40,000 in carbon fiber bits alone. Throw on adaptive suspension, carbon-ceramic brakes, and McLaren's track telemetry system and there's a good chance this beauty cost a whole lot more than the 600LT's "base" starting price of $256,500.
Not Good Enough
The fact that anyone in their right mind would consider selling the car so quickly might be chalked up to the recent stock market plunge amid coronavirus fears—though, presumably, most of those 840 miles were racked up by valets at ski chalets who had to pull the car out twice a day for daily runs to Starbucks. In any case, that exhaust note might get the back hairs tingling, but the shoddy undercarriage pics do show a few scratches—maybe this thing did see a bit of snow in the winter, after all, which isn't great for longevity. And speaking of which, as early commenters have pointed out, there's a good chance that ECU tune voided the factory warranty. No wonder this hunk of junk is for sale.
Source: Bring-A-Trailer
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