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All-Chrome Mercedes SLR Shows in Dubai

Posted by Admin on February 24, 2009

Amazingly over the top is one way to describe this . Dressed from top to bottom in (including that reflective -tinted glass) it causes quite a scene outside the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai. While this driver has a license plate number so high we’d assume it belonged to a pauper, we know it takes some serious scratch to buy an , and can only imagine the price tag necessary to go ahead and the living daylights out of it.

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2009 Mercedes McLaren SLR Stirling Moss: $1.01 Million McLaren

Posted by Admin on January 13, 2009

The 2009 SLR has just been unveiled here at the 2009 , and with only 75 copies of the $1.01 Million boutique supercar being produced, it’s a fitting start for the 2009 .

The SLR acts as the finale for the SLR supercar, and, of course, a tribute to one of histories greatest race car drivers. In the variant, has boiled the driving experience down to its rawest form — a carbon fiber chassis, completely exposed to the elements, at one with the wind in your face, breathing in the smell of the side-exit exhaust pounding from the 650-hp supercharged 5.5-liter V8.
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F1 Champ Lewis Hamilton will get his McLaren F1 LM after 3 Championship Titles

Posted by Admin on November 7, 2008

McLaren F1 LM

Now that has secured the Formula One championship, supercar fans around the world are asking when he’ll get his hands on that rare . The incredibly valuable supercar – initially reported at $4 million but now apparently worth closer to 8 – was promised to the budding young driver if he won the title. However, the condition was that he win both the drivers title and, together with team-mate Heikki Kovalainen, lock up the constructors’ title for the team, as well. Although he won the drivers’ championship, the constructors’ crown went to arch-rivals Ferrari, but since chief is such a good sport, he’s renegotiated the terms.

If Hamilton manages to repeat his title victory with a hat-trick – that is, take another two championships – he’ll get his hands on the bright orange supercar. That’s quite a challenge, but Dennis called it a “small price to pay for three world championships.” Indeed, but by then will have a whole slew of supercars on the market for Lewis to choose from. In the meantime, he’d better keep his head down and focus on the prize.


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Mercedes SLR McLaren Speedster Spied Testing At the Ring, Mercedes SLC Quietly Plotting Its Demise

Posted by Admin on August 13, 2008

It looks like and are completing one more variant of their before making their break-up official. This time, the was recently spotted testing at the Nurburgring, looking fine in its chess board camouflage. But, the super secret next-gen is out there too, planning to make both the slow-selling and the Audi R8 obsolete in one fell swoop.
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Video: Mercedes-Benz SLR Speedster Spied Testing

Posted by Admin on July 11, 2008

Wow, we’re happy when we manage to get a couple spy photos of a test car. But it must be Christmas, because this time around we got a whole of one. And this is no standard car either. Ladies and Gentlemen, allow us to present the next iteration of the McLaren. This is the -Benz McLaren !
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