No offence taken.
Interestingly, when we got involved with the design of the McLaren Production Centre (where they build the road cars) Alan Foster showed us around their existing assembly facility and they were building the last of the McMercs (the 722). He explained the cost of carbon fibre to me with regard to options on cars. When people spec carbon this and carbon that, a large part of the cost is because they want "bare" carbon. So much is rejected because the weave is imperfect visually, but still perfectly functional. Of course, if you want it painted, then nobody will ever know how pretty the weave looks.
Despite having let me sit in a pre-production 12C, I would choose a Ferrari 99 days out of 100 over a Macca. On the other day, I would think about it and then choose the Ferrari (and spec lots of carbon)
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