Multimillion-Dollar Supercar Carried Away By Flood Waters Ends Up On Toilet

Apparently a victim of Hurricane Ian, this rare McLaren P1 succumbed to storm surge.

By Andrew Beckford

Imagine being fortunate enough to have a Mclaren P1 hypercar and 2022 Rolls-Royce Phantom sitting in your garage free to drive when ever you want. Now imagine that just a short while after purchasing those cars, you watched both cars float away unceremoniously as your garage floods with water. Yes, let’s get the world’s-smallest-violin jokes out of the way, because one owner witnessed and chronicled in real time that every gut-cramping scenario as, apparently, Hurricane Ian bore down on Florida this week.

Flooded McLaren P1 Florida

Images of a flooded bright yellow McLaren P1 and white Rolls-Royce Phantom this appeared on Instagram during Hurricane Ian, but we’re awaiting confirmation from the poster that this in fact happened this week, as there have been many social media postings of damage and loss that turned out to be from past storms. From the poster’s Instagram account, we can surmise they live in or frequent Naples, Florida, which was hit hard by Hurricane Ian this week.

Their property—where the Rolls and McLaren are seen parked in numerous images—appears to be beachfront, with a door opposite the primary garage entrance opening up to a view of water (pre-flooding). Images of the new-to-this-Instagrammer’s P1 began appearing on their page September 16 of this year, about two weeks before Ian strengthened into a near-category-5 hurricane. So, while it certainly looks like this is the workd of Ian, whether or not it is, having two vehicles with a combined value well over $4 million float away from you, sucks.

Instagram posts seem to capture the exact moments when the garage began to flood and the vehicles started to float away. The poster continued to chronicle the saga of the runaway supercars with follow-up posts showing the McLaren P1 almost half submerged in water, then another of the P1 coming to rest surrounded by fallen tree branches. Finally, after the branches were cleared away the P1 is seen resting on top of a toilet.

The Rolls-Royce came to a rest simultaneously resting atop a fallen tree and what appears to be the hood of a brand new Honda Accord. The fact that two very large vehicles that both weigh thousands of pounds (well, the Rolls is quite a lot heavier than the McLaren) could so easily be lifted up and taken away is a testament to how powerful nature can be.

As previously stated, we haven’t spoken with the owner yet so we have no idea if the vehicles are covered by insurance from flood damage. It will be interesting to see if these cars end up on Copart’s auction block within the next six months. It’s too bad that neither the McLaren P1 nor the Rolls-Royce Phantom were designed to purposely sail on water like the Tesla Cybertruck can.

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Multimillion-Dollar Supercar Carried Away By Flood Waters Ends Up On Toilet