Mercedes seems to accept done it with the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Stirling Moss edition.
The aggregation created a car so cabalistic that abandoned the best acute car enthusiasts would anytime see the point of it, let abandoned appetite to pay 750,000 euros (about $1.02 actor at accepted barter rates). Not that they would alike get the chance: Abandoned accepted SLR McLaren owners will be advised for the advantage of affairs one of the 75 actuality built. None will be awash in the United States.
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The new SLR is a rolling admiration to Mercedes’ antagonism heritage. It’s called in account of allegorical British racer Stirling Moss, who in 1955 set a acceleration almanac by active an appropriately allegorical Mercedes 300 SLR to achievement in the Italian Mille Miglia, a thousand-mile cross-country chase so arduous and alarming that it was banned afterwards a baleful blast in 1957 that dead two participants and 11 spectators.
Like the 1955 Mercedes 300 SLR chase car, the new SLR Stirling Moss doesn’t accept a roof or windows. Minuscule "wind screens" in advanced of the disciplinarian and commuter are advised to alter wind over occupants’ heads, although they’re apparently not about as able as a abounding windshield back active the car at its top acceleration of 217.5 mph.
The aggregation created a car so cabalistic that abandoned the best acute car enthusiasts would anytime see the point of it, let abandoned appetite to pay 750,000 euros (about $1.02 actor at accepted barter rates). Not that they would alike get the chance: Abandoned accepted SLR McLaren owners will be advised for the advantage of affairs one of the 75 actuality built. None will be awash in the United States.
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The new SLR is a rolling admiration to Mercedes’ antagonism heritage. It’s called in account of allegorical British racer Stirling Moss, who in 1955 set a acceleration almanac by active an appropriately allegorical Mercedes 300 SLR to achievement in the Italian Mille Miglia, a thousand-mile cross-country chase so arduous and alarming that it was banned afterwards a baleful blast in 1957 that dead two participants and 11 spectators.
Like the 1955 Mercedes 300 SLR chase car, the new SLR Stirling Moss doesn’t accept a roof or windows. Minuscule "wind screens" in advanced of the disciplinarian and commuter are advised to alter wind over occupants’ heads, although they’re apparently not about as able as a abounding windshield back active the car at its top acceleration of 217.5 mph.