Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren

Has someone binned it? Insane.

McLaren SLR.

He's fucking, you had me.

Oh,

You're right.

This is the 2007 Mercedes SLR McLaren 722 edition.

And 722 refers to the number that Sterling Moss had on his car when they won the Mille Miglia in 1955.

Yes.

150 of these things? Maybe.

Yeah, and I think they made like a GT roadster version.

So this was the – it was an addition of the SLR McLaren, right? It wasn't anything – a special car made for it.

It was just an addition slapped on

keeping in mind that, so when the Carrera GT was coming out, that was the big three.

It was the Carrera GT, the Ferrari Enzo, and the Mercedes McLaren SLR.

SLR,

yeah.

I appreciate you, bro.

But Jake, he calls me and he's like, Hey man, Uh, this photographer, this, this dealership that I'm working with, you know, they just brought in the, the, the, the owner just picked up a seven, two, two S SLR McLaren.

I'm like, nice.

I'm

That's Ben.

[laughs] What have we got next? We've got McLaren news.

Uh, I think last week or the week before, in the recent weeks, uh, we mentioned that McLaren are creating jobs while JLR are cutting them.

McClaren have...

McClaren? McLaren.

McLaren have said, "Yo, we got some jobs going." And they have some news is they've had a rebrand, have they not, Benjamin?

They have.

They have had a rebrand.

It wasn't even about how nice the car is.

Fun fact, I think the SLR McLaren, which I don't like as a car.

I own one now.

I don't like the car, but I think it drove better than this and more exotic than this.

Mm-hmm

... of a few issues ago, the SLR McLaren seems as if it was never quite finished, I think, in terms of development.

Does any other car suffer from the same?

[laughs] The fir- first car that sprang to my mind was the Alfa Romeo 4C.