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McLaren Mp4-22 vs DTM C-class vs CLK 63 Black Series vs C350 C-class on Silverstone race track + Bonuses from video shooting

Auto Motor und Sport high speed event at Nardo - McLaren Mercedes SLR 722, Ruf RT 12, Chevrolet Corvette C6 Z06, BMW M6, Porsche GT3, Lamborghini Gallardo Superlaggera, top speed and acceleration test.

If the matte black BMW M5 wasn't really you're thing, then certainly this SLR 722 will be. For sure I find this an exceptional gorgeous car.  The color, the rims and it's sideways exhausts everything is just perfect on this car. This is a real batmobile, but then a super stylish one! Click "Read More" !!!

Despite the current succes of the Formula 1 team Mclaren Mercedes, you would think that Mercedes would put everything against the wall to collaborate with Mclaren for the development of their next supercar to star. But none of that is true.

Indeed, according to Automotive News Europe, Mercedes preferred to work together with it's DTM racing partner HWA AG founded by Hans-Werner Aufrecht in 1967, but also cofounder of AMG with Erhard Melcher from MKB.

Hans Jürgen Matheis, spokesman of HWA would have affirmed to have always had the ambition to prove Mercedes they could do better than McLaren… so now his time will come and so HWA will invest 4.5 million euros in the enlarging of its factory, thus passing from 1.200 to 3.600 m ². It is imagined easily that this extension will be used to accomodate a line of assembly.

So their future supercar will use AMG's 6.3 litre V8 while the Mclaren SLR uses the 5.5 litre V8.

Mercedes-Benz has just released the long-awaited SLR Mclaren roadster wich will go on sale as from September 2007. Unlike the SL and SLK roadsters, the SLR features a retractable soft-top wich will be available in three colours. The roof opens and closes semi-automatically in less than ten seconds. However, the driver must unlock the roof from the windscreen, after wich it folds away electrically. Opinions about this retractable soft-top will be different for every one, but i kinda like it.

First there were rumours that Mercedes would go for the upgraded 650Hp V8 of the SLR Mclaren 722 Special Edition, the "stock" 626Hp turbocharged V8 coupled to an AMG Speedshift R-five speed automatic transmission will be used. The roadster will do the sprint from 0 - 100 km/u (62 mph) in just 3,8 sec while it reaches his maximum speed at 332km/u (206mph) Press release and picture gallery? Click "Read More"

Via: Carscoop