SLR Stirling Moss: The Goodbye That Beat Everyone by a Decade Some cars close a chapter. A rare few close it so well that, without meaning to, they open the next one. The SLR Stirling Moss is one of those. It’s the final page of a story this site has been telling in instalments. The … Read more
Mercedes SLR 722: The SLR That Finally Stopped Arguing With Itself There is a clip somewhere of Chris Harris talking about the SLR McLaren, and you can see the conflict on his face. He respects the car. He just can’t quite love it. And he’s not alone. For years the SLR was the supercar nobody … Read more
The man who lost his name and built a bigger one Picture the kind of bloke who’d queue politely at a Baden-Württemberg bakery on a Saturday morning. Check shirt, glasses, big hands resting on the counter. You’d walk past him without a second glance. And then you find out he is the “A” in AMG, … Read more
CHRYSLER ME FOUR-TWELVE: THE AMERICAN SUPERCAR MERCEDES MURDERED A 248 mph American hypercar, born inside the wrong corporation McLaren F1Before the Bugatti Veyron set a new bar at 253 mph. Before the Ferrari Enzo was fully digested by the collector market. Before the McLaren F1 looked replaceable. Detroit had a car ready to leave them … Read more
AMG: From a Garage in Burgstall to Devouring Mercedes from Within The Story of Two Engineers, a Rented Apartment, and the Red Pig That Changed Everything Every empire starts somewhere small. Apple started in a garage. Amazon started in a bedroom. And AMG — the division that now defines what “performance” means for the world’s … Read more
Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR: The Race Car That Was Forced to Become a Road Car 128 Days from Blank Paper to Race Winner. 25 Road Cars. $1.5 Million Each. And a McLaren F1 They Bought in Secret. There are road cars that get turned into race cars. And then, very rarely, there are race cars that … Read more
Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren: The Supercar Born from an “Impossible Marriage” Imagine putting a German engineer obsessed with luxury and a British engineer obsessed with performance at the same table. Tell them they have to build a car together. Give them an unlimited budget and four years. What comes out of that meeting is the Mercedes-Benz … Read more
