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03-13-2006, 10:05 AM
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The SLR roadster concept debuted years ago, now there may be a production version.
WOKING, England — Mercedes-Benz wants to give its slow-selling SLR supercar (http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/ViewModelDetail/make=Mercedes-Benz/model=SLR%20McLaren) a boost by launching spin-off versions of the British-built sports car, including a convertible roadster version.
The SLR is made by Mercedes' Formula One partner McLaren; and British magazine What Car? quotes DaimlerChrysler chairman Dieter Zetsche as saying the partners are investigating small production runs of the SLR with different body styles.
"We could do 50 to 100 cars with certain attributes," he said, suggesting that a roadster version would be the obvious next step. A roadster version was shown back in 1999, when the original Vision SLR concept was first unveiled.
The V8-engined SLR is priced at $450,000, and a soft top would probably be even more expensive. The SLR is powered by a 626-hp engine, giving it a top speed of 208 mph and 0-60 mph in just 3.8 seconds.
But the car hasn't been the success Mercedes had hoped it would be, and it's likely to be replaced in the next few years by a McLaren-badged supercar — a successor to the legendary McLaren F1 supercar of the 1990s that would compete with the likes of the Ferrari F430 (http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/ViewModelDetail/make=Ferrari/model=F430).
source:http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=109600#2
The SLR roadster concept debuted years ago, now there may be a production version.
WOKING, England — Mercedes-Benz wants to give its slow-selling SLR supercar (http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/ViewModelDetail/make=Mercedes-Benz/model=SLR%20McLaren) a boost by launching spin-off versions of the British-built sports car, including a convertible roadster version.
The SLR is made by Mercedes' Formula One partner McLaren; and British magazine What Car? quotes DaimlerChrysler chairman Dieter Zetsche as saying the partners are investigating small production runs of the SLR with different body styles.
"We could do 50 to 100 cars with certain attributes," he said, suggesting that a roadster version would be the obvious next step. A roadster version was shown back in 1999, when the original Vision SLR concept was first unveiled.
The V8-engined SLR is priced at $450,000, and a soft top would probably be even more expensive. The SLR is powered by a 626-hp engine, giving it a top speed of 208 mph and 0-60 mph in just 3.8 seconds.
But the car hasn't been the success Mercedes had hoped it would be, and it's likely to be replaced in the next few years by a McLaren-badged supercar — a successor to the legendary McLaren F1 supercar of the 1990s that would compete with the likes of the Ferrari F430 (http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/ViewModelDetail/make=Ferrari/model=F430).
source:http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=109600#2