‘Haeundae Gapjil’ controversy McLaren, what kind of kick?

Input 2021.03.23 15:35

As the CCTV of the’McLaren Gapjil Incident’ that occurred at a three-way intersection in Haeundae-gu, Busan was released, the vehicles are drawing attention.

The purple McLaren released on CCTV is presumed to be’McLaren 570S’. The launch price for the 2017 model is 265 million won, and the 2019 570S Spider starts at 284 million won. Equipped with a 3.8ℓ twin-turbo gasoline engine, it has a maximum performance of 570 horsepower, and the maximum speed is 328 km/h.

McLaren, a British sports car brand founded in 1985, manufactures and sells sports cars based on the technology accumulated in F1 (Formula 1), a global automobile racing competition. Ferrari and Lamborghini are considered competitors.

All McLaren vehicles are hand-finished in a UK factory. The cheapest model is well over 200 million won, and the most expensive is approaching 400 million won. The 570S is a’medium’ vehicle in the McLaren product line.

The car, which was called the ‘poop car’ by the owner of McLaren, was BMW’s premium compact car brand MINI. It is difficult to determine exactly what model it is from just the CCTV appearance, but it is presumed to be a Mini Cooper due to the circumstances.

The Mini Cooper is a three-door model with a hatchback design. Except for the trunk door, there is only one seat for the driver and one for the passenger. Because of this, in order to board the second row, you have to fold the front seats and squeeze through the door gap.

At the time of the incident, the driver of the Mini Cooper was riding with his wife and three children at the same time, but the Mini Cooper is a compact car, so it is cramped for five people to ride together. It is possible that this was reflected in McLaren’s borrower’s more aggressive profanity.

The Mini Cooper 3-door model is priced at 31.8 million to 37.8 million won. As it is a premium compact car, the price is higher than that of the car class, but it is about a quarter of that of McLaren.

Earlier on the 21st, an article titled’Gapjil McLaren in Haeundae, Busan’ was posted on the online car community’Bobae Dream’.

In the article, the author who claimed to be a victim claimed that he was subjected to retaliation and abusive language terror by a McLaren driver on the 13th when he returned home after spending a weekend evening with his family as a mini brand owner.

As the controversy spread, the owner of McLaren also posted a refutation, and after that, the mini-owner captured and released a picture from the CCTV.