Rendered: Mercedes SLR Speedster
August 1, 2008 4:47 PM
Filed Under: Artist Renderings, German, McLaren, Mercedes-Benz
Following the Roadster and 722 variants, Mercedes McLaren are giving it one more try with the SLR Speedster to hopefully stimulate SLR sales which never met expectation.
Based on recent spy photos and video, artist Jon Sibal helps us visualize the Speedster past its zebra stripe camouflage with an illustration he has created. It's easy to see that the Speedster version is lacking a windshield and roof, however, during Sibal's analysis he discovered only the headlights are shared between the normal SLR and Speedster.
“Practically all body panels have been redesigned,” according to Sibal. “The whole side panel, fenders and doors are all different. The hood was also redesigned to tame the slope leading to the high beams which was originally connected to the A pillar. The side exit exhaust is now placed in the side fender vents as how it appeared in the original 1955 300 SLR instead of the rocker panels found in the current McLaren model.”
Head over to Sibal's site for an animated transition from camouflaged prototype to rendering.
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Comments
My favorite car of all time, was the Mercedes-Benz F-400 Carving, sad nothing ever happened with the concept :(
Funny thing is, this shares some of the styling of the F-400, and I always thought itd be a badass Batmobile :D
I mention them because in their country it NEVER rains, and if its going to, they know it a week ahead. So cars like this that have no roof, still work just fine, practically as they are only required to do so in a certain kind of life style. This applies to all rich men not just the Arab variety.
Its ignorant because people don't bother to realise how HARD some lower classes of life have to work. Its ignorant because you generalize them all, like all "poor" people are a bunch of worthless, lazy drunkards and junkies who don't do anything.
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