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
Ferrari FXX: the most elegant scam in motoring history Run the numbers. In 2005 Ferrari pulled off a move that, attempted by anyone else, ends in a courtroom. They sold you a car for over a million euros. Then they kept it. They stored it at their place. They charged you separately for the privilege … Read more
McLaren: Sixty Years of Building Cars That Hurt, From a Limp in Auckland to the Top of Formula 1 Top Gear’s Chris Harris once said that the McLaren F1 is the only road car that has ever genuinely scared him. Not in the way a Lamborghini Diablo scares you with its switches and its truculence, … 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
