Things got just a bit brighter for the incoming Detroit Auto show. Mercedes-Benz will officially showing what will surely be one of the most attention supercars in exhibition hall, the new 2009 McLaren SLR Stirling Moss,a supercar for year 2009. The boldly styled Merc will be the last vehicle built under the partnership with McLaren, at a cost around €750,000 Mercedes should have no trouble find
Mercedes Benz obviously feel that the credit crunch is a just a passing thing. Not only have they recently released The SL Black Edition (with a fixed roof, so there's no room for it in these pages) but now they have introduced the most extreme version of their collaboration with racing car builder McLaren. The McLaren SLR Stirling Moss is styled to resemble the SLR racing cars of the 1950s that p
Mercedes-Benz has confirmed that its longstanding partnership with British sports car manufacturer McLaren to build the SLR supercar will come to an end next year, and to mark the occasion the companies are planning to release a special edition ‘Speedster’ model.However, the Speedster isn’t the only new SLR variant in the works as next week's Paris Motor Show will see the launch of a new 722
Bad news for the McLaren lovers. It production shall stop as the company cannot achieve its target of producing 400 to 500 units per year. According to sources, McLaren SLR Roadster -the Coupe stopped being produced at the end of 2007, thus ending the supercar's five-year scheduled run. Even though the SLR's production rose to 275 units last year, up by 14 cars compared to 2006. Yet, it is believed that the targets are set very high as the car buyers are still estimated to increase gradually.
I’m sure you all know by now that I hate Mercedes and Audi and basically any major company that’s competing with BMW . And since I posted about the Bugatti Veyron vs BMW M3 before and the poor BMW was humiliated. I thought why not do the same for Mercedes? So, I did a [...]
I was trying to find further information regarding SLR's breaks.I know that they are especially made for McLaren-Merceds SLR and are very hard to find....But... They are made by Brembo!Front brake system is Ceramic compound for both disks and friction bodies -pads- and an 8-pot brembo made calliper -probably withoun any changes from the stock 8-pot model.Same goes for rear breaks.Ceramic compound for disk and pads and 4-pot brembo made calipers.Few years a go, I owned a Mercedes E200Kompressor, the W211 model.After one year of driving, I decided to start upgrading and tuning.First step were the brakes.I went to a new-Benz-parts dealer and asked for the bigest brakes they had.They told me that the biggest they had, were from an SL55AMG8-pot front calipers, 4-pot rear calipers... And that the next best thing was Ceramcs from SLR.So I got them on my car.Now....If you take a good look at the first picture, you will see that the calliper is exactly the same with the one found on the SLR's
Il tuner RENNtech non si è accontentato del motore da 6.5 litri di cilindrata e 650 Cv di potenza della Mercedes SLR 722. Hartmut Feyhl ha voluto dare a quel 722 un vero significato: i cavalli dell’auto. (more…)
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The Mercedes Mclaren SLR 722 Edition accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in a 3.6 seconds, to 200 km/h in 10.2 seconds, and to 300 km/h in just 28.0 seconds, and it has a top speed of 337 km/h
