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I agree with most of that.
However with price sensitive part, I think it's more complicated. Once you go to used cars, yes. But on the new side, I think a lot of buyers want the mclaren because 'why not, and'. They have lots of cars, lots of money.
Also, many are 'professional' car owners. Meaning, it's more than a hobby for them to keep having the newest car. Many love the 'I dont really have money to waste on cars' surfing game they perfected at Ferrari, ie, get the car early, dump it after 10 minutes of 'ownership' before taking a hit on depreciation and even maybe making a small profit. The kind of people that will try to look down on used buyer, but in actuality, are cheap as hell themselves, desperately trying to throw the hot depreciating potato, at others. I posit those buyers are a paradox in as follows. The price is irrelevant to them because they plan on dumping the hot potato on others, so they are price incentive.
Going back to the 'why not, and' buyers, the other new purchasers, I think they might not much care about the price. I think care less than Ferrari new buyers because the McLaren is an 'and' buyer. Meaning, they already have way more cars than they need even for status. They just have money to burn and like the McLaren brand/cars as an "and" car.
I could be wrong, and you might be right that bulk of mclaren buyers are more price sensitive, but I would not be surprised if the above represented a significant portion.
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