Tag: McLaren

The Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren was something of an odd duck in the super car world. It was a flashy, fast car, sure, but it wasn’t built to be a track-day assassin like the Carrera GT or Ferrari’s Enzo. It was fast, let there be no question about that, but it wasn’t perfect. Which is why […] More »

When Mercedes first pulled the cover off the SLS AMG, I looked at and thought… “The SLR is way cooler than this.” I stand by that now. No, it didn’t have “gull wings” like the classic SL 300. It probably can’t corner as well as the SLS AMG either. In fact, AMG wasn’t even a […] More »

Warning: The footage you are about to see is graphic and depressing. Some lucky soul in downtown Manhattan was lucky enough to be cruising around in a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren…but so unfortunate as to drive it into a curb and rip off one of its wheels.  He pushes his bad luck even further by driving […] More »

It’s true that you learn something new everyday.  I just discovered that I was misinformed about commercials.  How silly of me to think that television ads are typically for products that are necessary and/or affordable to the vast majority of consumers. This mid-2000s spot from Mercedes-Benz for the SLR McLaren taught me it’s worth alerting […] More »

The stock model of the SLR is considered one of the best cars in the lineup of the luxury car manufacturer from Germany. The SLR was given a yellow and black color theme by Hamann. The vehicle, which was dubbed as Volcano, only has 1,118 miles or 1,800 kilometer on its odometer. It has a number of carbon fiber components while its interior was also given a similar color hue as its exterior.

Lewis Hamilton scored his first podium finish for the Mercedes AMG Petronas team on Sunday at the 2013 Malaysian Grand Prix, incidentally the team’s home race. While the newcomer had a great race overall, he did have one funny moment on the circuit. On his first pit stop, a tire change in Lap 8, the former McLaren driver actually went into the McLaren pit stop box, which many of course found amusing.

The gaffe prompted these tweets from McLaren’s official Twitter account:

If ‘old’ cars capture your attention, then you must be like Shmee150 who took this video. He spotted the McLaren Mercedes SLR 722 in the streets of London and he knew instantly that it is Youtube-worthy. The car has black light-alloy wheels that are 19-inch in size. The badge in red that says “722” adorns