RE: Mclaren Mercedes SLR

[CVP]

OK, saw the pictures and thought - ugly bonnet looks too stretched and all out of proportion. Doesn't have grace or muscle at all.

On the M25 this morning got passed by one (in its silly "camoflage" paint scheme. Totally changed my mind when seen int he fleah it's all in proportion and looks really right and clean, just so much better than all the pictures.

Still not may favourite, give me a Gallardo or T400R any day but a lot better than I thought it would be.

Chris

[olly]

Does this mean side exit exhausts are now "ok" for production cars ?

[rambofanso]

Saw this car at Bologna motorshow 2001. It was the best thing there, & i think it will be the best thing on the road when it arrives. Tempted to PX my Diablo!
(Realy I am, it's just a stunning Merc)

[hertsbiker]

Yuk. Daft car. Imagine trying to get out of a side road with it? ultimate in "my bonnet is bigger than yours" maybe, but how pointless. Tiddly cabin perched at the back, who thinks of these things? Like something a child would draw, or some Manga fantasy machine gone wrong. Nope, waste of money, and hopefully an evolutionary deadend.

[Droid42]

oh and those wheels, ok i don't know, but jusy a guess, they look like fan like, so when they spin they'll suck the air out over the discs, cooling the discs and increasing downforce, i don't know, it's just a guess, but it sounds very mclaren

Nah ... BMW were there about 10 years ago with the first E34 M5. The alloy wheels were in two parts ... the cover part was designed like a fan to suck air onto the brake discs.

I personally think Gordon Murray has sold out ... to design a "supercar" that is only available with an auto. transmission !?! Shame on him for going along with the same arrogance that has plagued MB's performance cars over the last few years.

Ian.

[andy_b]

Engineered by McLaren, but they styling was done by Mercedes

[tuscansix]

Your all going to upset Mercedes-Benz, calling it a McLaren Mercedes SLR if the article in Last week's Autocar is to be believed (page15 Peter Robinson). You should all be calling it a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren. What a stupid name.

[FourWheelDrift]

Makes that fake SLR look more like an SLK now.

Side exhausts - nice, do they spit flame

[XM5ER]

As I put it on another forum "Mercedes Borrow Bangle's Ugly Stick Shock". That is one ugly MF, sorry, MB. Nose too long, front overhang too much, gills too retro, wheels too bling bling. Oh well I cant afford one anyway so it's not my problem.

[Agoogy]

Couldn't've put it better myself X5.... Over detailed, clash of styles and themes...F1 nose, 300SL/SLR midrift...The theory was there, I even like the idea of the long bonnet-engine behind the axle idea, but hte translation seems to want to shock rather than to drool... like so many other designs of late.
Bangle tries hard I'll give him that, but if anyone other than BMW had tried Flame surfacing those companies would be going to the wall. Like Fiat Coupe... a mass of wonderful detailing from diffferent eras shoved together, a designer that can talk the talk and a public left wondering why must've happened at the design meetings...

[p0rnstar06]

marki said:

Im sure this seemed like a good idea for Mc back when they first startedto plan it but the SL55 came along and kind of spoiled the party (a little) ok its more powerful and must be a lot lighter than the SL but it really seems kind of redundant in a way,,,left hand knowing what the right hands doing or what

hey how can you lot not like the slr omg it is legendary any one the original price?

[omitchell]

p0rnstar06 said:

marki said: Im sure this seemed like a good idea for Mc back when they first startedto plan it but the SL55 came along and kind of spoiled the party (a little) ok its more powerful and must be a lot lighter than the SL but it really seems kind of redundant in a way,,,left hand knowing what the right hands doing or what hey how can you lot not like the slr omg it is legendary any one the original price?

and you just looked throught the archives to post that?!

[Neil Junior]

I actually like the car the way it is so much so that i actually purchased one and throughly enjoy driving it everyday even if it does cost a fortune in petrol i think it is definately worth it.

[killer2005]

Neil Junior said:

I actually like the car the way it is so much so that i actually purchased one and throughly enjoy driving it everyday even if it does cost a fortune in petrol i think it is definately worth it.

lucky man

[JonRB]

The first time I saw one (from the offices, looking down onto the carpark, so not a very good look initially) I thought it was a blinged-up SL55 AMG.

Kind of sums it up really.

[Paul Drawmer]

Neil Junior said:

I actually like the car the way it is so much so that i actually purchased one and throughly enjoy driving it everyday even if it does cost a fortune in petrol i think it is definately worth it.

Yes, but would Sir Tom approve?