Comments on: Mercedes SLR McLaren Stirling Moss edition announced (pictures)

By: werner

werner — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:44:46 +0000

It was incredible!!! I saw yesterday for the first time the Mercedes SLR McLaren Stirling Moss in Chobham near Woking UK!
What a car!!!

By: dave

dave — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:58:38 +0000

A great car well designed too, a proper toy!

By: theRoswellite

theRoswellite — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:00:40 +0000

beyond beautiful really, and maximum hand clapping for the suits at silver-star that didn’t nix the idea in the bud.

I’d like to know the yearly insurance cost for a policy covering “normal driving”? (I know…there is nothing “normal” about this car.)

So, where is the MG for the 21st century…this car writ small…zero emissions…fantastic handling …almost zero weight……and the helmets are included?

By: GeorgeK

GeorgeK — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:47:29 +0000

@Patrickl

Any comment offered evaluating a car design is obviously opinion regardless of how it’s stated. “Think” vs. “it’s” is splitting the hair, no?

And in that vein you obviously meant “Typo” instead of “Type”

By: beneboy

beneboy — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:29:32 +0000

I like it, think it’s a very nice looking car.

I’m guessing those vents will be used to deflect any bugs etc, there was a Renault that was released a few years ago without a windshield and they used an air ram to deflect everything above the driver & passenger.

As I biker I’m used to wearing a helmet all of the time & it’d be a small price to pay for driving one of these :~)

By: Patrickl

Patrickl — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:02:58 +0000

@GeorgeK,

I guess you made a type when you wanted to write “I think” and it turned out as “it’s”.

By: GeorgeK

GeorgeK — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:01:22 +0000

Sorry folks, but it’s almost as ugly as the McLaren designed Mercedes car. Looks like a Corvette/Saturn Sky hybrid on steroids.

By: Missouri Mike

Missouri Mike — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:15:59 +0000

Aesthetically that is maybe the most beautiful modern car I’ve ever seen. Its as if a ’57 300SL roadster fell in love with a ’57 Porsche Speedster, and 50 years later this is their lovechild progeny. Its just stunning. Cars like this one are the reason we are enthusiasts– no 10 year old boy ever stapled a glossy poster of a Kia Sedona on his wall and dreamed about the day he might drive one.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:36:35 +0000

Keith, yes, but he’s got to win another 2 WDC’s before he gets that, so in the interim…!!

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:57:48 +0000

Adrian – Perhaps not: Hamilton’s after a McLaren F1 LM…

I think this thing looks very cool, but like Chaz says you’d be forever picking stuff out of your teeth.

I always associate Moss with those pictures of him wearing an open-faced helmet with the outline of his face blackened by dirt and grime. So it’s quite an appropriate car really!