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Mercedes SLR McLaren

The Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren is an impressive testament to the competence and experience of Mercedes-Benz and our Formula 1 partner McLaren in the development and production of high-performance sports cars. The two-seater, with its striking swing-wing doors and styling elements borrowed from the Formula 1 Silver Arrows, builds on the legacy of the famous SLR race cars of the 1950s. Equipped with cutting-edge race car technology and ground-breaking new Mercedes developments, designed to ensure a high standard of safety and suitability for day-to-day use, the new Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren creates a distinctive image for itself as a 21st-century Gran Turismo - a thrilling synthesis of tradition and innovation.

The newly developed V8 supercharged engine delivers an output of 460 kW/626 hp and accelerates the sports car from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.8 seconds. The top speed is approximately 334 km/h. The body of the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, like those of the Mercedes-McLaren Formula 1 race cars, is made from carbon fibre composites - lightweight materials which demonstrate exemplary energy absorption, hence ensuring the highest standard of occupant protection. The SLR is the world's first series-produced car to have a front crash structure manufactured entirely from carbon fibres. Adaptive airbags, newly developed kneebags and sidebags, belt tensioners, high-performance ceramic brake discs and an automatically adaptive airbrake in the boot lid round off the range of safety equipment on board the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, setting new standards in this vehicle class.

2004 Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren

Technology way ahead of its time and an abundance of power - these were the intensity of the sun's rays so that the temperature, quantity and distribution of the air blown into the interior can be regulated appropriately.

• A dew point sensor in the air conditioning system's intake duct registers humidity and allows economic regulation of the refrigerant compressor.
• A pollutant sensor in the automatic climate control system's intake channel detects any increase in the concentration of carbon monoxide and nitrous oxides in the incoming air. If an increase is detected, the system automatically switches to recirculation mode.

Like the automatic climate control system in the Mercedes-Benz SL-Class sports car, the system on board the SLR operates according to the reheat principle: depending on its humidity, the incoming air is first cooled and in the process dried so as to ensure mist-free windows. Only then is it passed through the heating element and heated to the desired temperature.

Bore/stroke: 97.0/92.0 mm

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