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Personally I think the Bigmac is way ahead of anything, based solely on the timeframe. The Mac was released early 90s, which makes it a work of art based simply on the fact that the competition's still sweating bullets trying to oust it from it's throne.
The others are great too, but the Bigmac has reached legendary-status.
Maybe some day another company will grow big enough ballz to go all out and produce a limited, ground-breaking, superfast, super-efficient wondercar. Not even the Veyron fits the bill there...
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well on Top Gear when they had that old v new supercar thing, JC said that the Macca wasn't the best handler, the steering was a bit of and the rear end was twitchy. He didn't have any complaints about the CC8S and the CCR is just as fast as the Macca, though i think i'd wait until i saw a test of the CCR before coming to a conclusion
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Yeah, I know the handling wasn't a gem, but Murray set out from the beginning to create a car that involves the driver totally. As such, he wanted to create a car that would make the driver work, and therefore reward the driver with good driving-skills.
I remember he sampled the toast of the supercar-pile back in 1989. The cars were the F40, Countach, 959 and Esprit Turbo. There may have been another car also, can't remember that well...
Anyway, he liked the F40's punch, but not the brakes and hated the fact that they mostly used carbon-fibre as a sales-gimmick, since according to him where they used the stuff it actually served no purpose.
The Countach he liked, except for the too-low seating and shoddy build-quality. He raved about the sound from the V12.
The Esprit was waaaaay too small for him (I think he's something like 6'4 or 6'5), and the performance was admirable for a 2-litre Turbo, but not enough ooomph. He wan't thrilled about the handling either.
The 959 was more to his liking. It had good seating position, perhaps a tad too high, good visibility, practical, great performance... Problem was, it handled so well, that as he put it "it's relatively boring..." (!)
So, if you look at what he was gunning for, then it's probably understandable that the car has a twitchy tail and strange handling, since he created it according to what he wanted in the ultimate supercar. He created it to his and his team's standards, not to what the motoring media thought a supercar should be like.
Recently he also said that he didn't expect the Bigmac to be such a hit. He thought someone like Ferrari or Porsche would immediately release something even faster and more advanced. Even today, he's still waiting... and so am I.