{"id":260,"date":"2014-05-28T12:58:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T12:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/?p=260"},"modified":"2019-04-01T10:08:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T10:08:35","slug":"mr-beans-mclaren-f1-took-expensive-repairs-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/mr-beans-mclaren-f1-took-expensive-repairs-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Bean\u2019s McLaren F1 Took Most Expensive Repairs In UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>In 2011, Rowan Atkinson, aka Mr Bean, crashed his historic McLaren F1 into a tree while driving on a British highway.<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The accident news spread like wild fire, the reasons were obvious, it was Bean\u2019s car, it was a Limited Edition McLaren and the repairs cost insurance company a fortune.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren F1 is one of the most admired supercars in the world and when you talk about the one owned by the legendary British comedian<a title=\"Mr Bean\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rowan_Atkinson\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> Rowan Atkinson<\/strong><\/a>, famed as Mr Bean, it\u2019s a Limited Edition as only 64 of those were ever built. With its historic value and fame as Bean\u2019s car, it was one unique car for sure.<br \/>\nOne of the most horrified and surely painful enough moment was watching that beauty getting ripped apart on the A-605 road when it crashed into a tree. It seems pretty logical that when you have a car with that <a title=\"Engines for sale\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>powerful engine<\/strong><\/a>, you don\u2019t want to drive slowly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After more than two year of that unfortunate crash, several details have surfaced and the most amazing of them all are the financial numbers related to repairs. It was a pretty bad collision as the McLaren F1 had to bear some heavy damages, although the mechanics exhaustively worked to calculate the repair costs, it still took them almost four whole weeks. To bring that wilder beast <a title=\"Supercars\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/lamborghini-huracan-get-ready-for-the-best-drive-of-your-life\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>supercar<\/strong><\/a> back to its perfect factory state, it took tremendous efforts, loads of money and one full year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You need to hold on to something when you read the financial numbers that the insurance company had paid to McLaren\u2019s workshop in Surrey which brought the car back to its original state. Well, here it goes, it was no less than \u00a3910,000 and that made it United Kingdom\u2019s the biggest repair bill ever recorded.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just for the ending note, that repair bill was bigger than the initial price of McLaren. It was also about half of McLaren\u2019s estimated value in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011, Rowan Atkinson, aka Mr Bean, crashed his historic McLaren F1 into a tree while driving on a British highway. &nbsp; The accident news spread like wild fire, the reasons were obvious, it was Bean\u2019s car, it was a Limited Edition McLaren and the repairs cost insurance company a fortune. McLaren F1 is one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,121,82],"tags":[120,119,118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2872,"href":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/2872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engines4sale.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}