The benefits of shared access car clubs are well rehearsed: for a set annual membership fee, you get your choice of a fleet of different cars without having to worry about service costs, insurance or depreciation. What are less well advertised are the drawbacks, the main one of which being that 80% of members only wanted to drive the top 20% of the cars.

Nick Hancock, who pioneered the concept of exclusive car clubs, decided there was a niche for a club with restricted membership to ensure that members have better access to the cars they joined the club to drive. The Segrave Club runs a realistic ratio of truly interesting metal to members of 6:1. Hancock claims this compares to something like 18:1 for other clubs.