No one among Mercedes' stone-faced group of engineers was willing to divulge just how many millions of Deutsche marks had gone into the development of the stunning Vision SLR Roadster and its ...

2024 Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-AMG GT 63 Coupe ... The basic design idea came from the 1999 concept vision SLR which in turn was an homage to the original 1955 300 SLR race car.

At the 1999 Detroit Auto show, Mercedes-Benz showed off the Vision SLR Roadster concept that paid homage to the Mille Miglia-winning 1955 300 SLR piloted by Stirling Moss in one of motorsport’s ...

Mercedes then turned to its Formula 1 partner, McLaren, to help develop the production version of the Vision SLR. Thus the Mercedes-Benz SLR (Sport Licht Rennsport, or Sport Light Racing ...

Well, somewhere under the crazed black and silver tape Mercedes applied to them they ... the nose compared with that of the 1999 Vision SLR concept on which the production car is based.

Click the photo for a gallery of high-res shots of the 1999 Vision SLR concept Mercedes Benz originally showed off the Vision SLR coupe at the 1999 Detroit Auto Show, followed by the roadster ...

In 1999, Mercedes-Benz teased us with not one, but two mouth-watering "Vision SLR" supercar concepts. One had a roof, the other was a convertible. The Vision SLR coupe eventually became the ...

Mercedes showed a concept car called the SLR Vision at the 1999 Detroit auto show, and McLaren confirmed plans for a production version codenamed Project 7 at the British Grand Prix later that year.

While McLaren wanted to build a supercar to carry the bloodline of the F1 forward, Mercedes wanted a luxurious grand tourer and was adamant that it must be based on the already-penned Vision SLR ...

Longer and more fluid in design than the original, the “Mercedes-Benz SLR-AMG Vision Concept” features center-ock wheels over yellow brake calipers, a color that serves as a reference to the ...

“It’s more than the $3 million you’d pay for an AMG One but less than the $142 million someone paid for the 1955 Mercedes ... SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe.” That’s the line the Mercedes-Benz ...