Rendered: Mercedes SLR Speedster

 Rendered: Mercedes SLR Speedster
Mercedes SLR McLaren Speedster artist rendering / JonSibal.com

Following the Roadster and 722 variants, Mercedes McLaren are giving it one more try with the SLR Speedster to hopefully stimulate SLR sales which never met expectation.

Based on recent spy photos and video, artist Jon Sibal helps us visualize the Speedster past its zebra stripe camouflage with an illustration he has created. It's easy to see that the Speedster version is lacking a windshield and roof, however, during Sibal's analysis he discovered only the headlights are shared between the normal SLR and Speedster.

“Practically all body panels have been redesigned,” according to Sibal. “The whole side panel, fenders and doors are all different. The hood was also redesigned to tame the slope leading to the high beams which was originally connected to the A pillar. The side exit exhaust is now placed in the side fender vents as how it appeared in the original 1955 300 SLR instead of the rocker panels found in the current McLaren model.”

Head over to Sibal's site for an animated transition from camouflaged prototype to rendering.

Source: JonSibal.com via Autoblog.com

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 The_woo_factor The_woo_factor
Cool...nice car. Batmobile?
August 1, 2008 12:55 pm
 Kaamraan Kaamraan
Lol yeah that would be such a killer batmobile! But I think batmobiles need roofs... Anyway- I hope they do keep the headlights and don'treplace them with those lame-ass SL headlights. These ones are way better. This whole car actually looks a lot better than how I thought (and still think) it would look...
August 1, 2008 7:57 pm
 MattAAron MattAAron
WOW This car looks awesome! Im just amazed wow My favorite car of all time, was the Mercedes-Benz F-400 Carving, sad nothing ever happened with the concept :( Funny thing is, this shares some of the styling of the F-400, and I always thought itd be a badass Batmobile :D
August 2, 2008 10:22 pm
 NardoW12 NardoW12
I'm wonder how many people would buy a roofless super..... good rendering, but probably just the most unpractical exotic car ever....
August 1, 2008 1:01 pm
 Joe_Limon Joe_Limon
since when was an exotic car ever practical? They sell purely because of how unpractical they are.
August 1, 2008 2:14 pm
 wolff wolff
just like all American cars.. well, they r not exoctic too!! :P
August 1, 2008 2:42 pm
 odysseus odysseus
the real speedster will not have the four eye face.
August 1, 2008 1:30 pm
 carcrazy1234 carcrazy1234
why not?
August 1, 2008 3:42 pm
 carcrazy1234 carcrazy1234
oh god if they put the new SL lights on this i'd sh*t
August 1, 2008 3:42 pm
 mmr66 mmr66
nice car but would not like driving it on a hot summer day or a rainy day so you would feel limited on when you could drive it
August 1, 2008 3:23 pm
 3Iceman 3Iceman
I like the rendering. Exotic cars have to look insane and this speedster looks insane. I completely agree with joe_limon.
August 1, 2008 3:25 pm
 carfan58 carfan58
The worlds best speedster. or do the sour lemons have something to say
August 1, 2008 5:15 pm
 Xanavi23 Xanavi23
Thats incredibly gorgeous, thats more or less what it should look like. cant wait to see.
August 1, 2008 7:07 pm
 carfan58 carfan58
The Highly ADVANCED Mercedes-Benz Exotics are only impractical to those who can't appreciate the finer things in life. You pull up in this and EVERYONE STOPS THERE LIFE FOR A MINUTE AND CONCENTRATES ON YOURS. Genius
August 1, 2008 7:21 pm
 Xanavi23 Xanavi23
I wanna ask something, how many times does it rain in Kuwait? In Bahrain ? Abu Dahbi ? Because beleive it or not, like it or not, Arabian princes and business men are easily the first major portion of buyers for these Elite supercars. I mention them because in their country it NEVER rains, and if its going to, they know it a week ahead. So cars like this that have no roof, still work just fine, practically as they are only required to do so in a certain kind of life style. This applies to all rich men not just the Arab variety.
August 1, 2008 10:38 pm
 PotatoEater PotatoEater
What the rich should rightfully do with their loose change, the poor only demand more welfare.
August 2, 2008 12:20 am
 Joe_Limon Joe_Limon
I agree, welfare people are unmotivated hence why they look towards the govt for money rather then themselves. Rich people tend to be super motivated and deserve cars like this as a reward. If they aren't super motivated i.e. lottery winners and they do buy rewards such as these, then they won't be rich for long! and the circle balances itself out again :)
August 2, 2008 2:08 am
 Xanavi23 Xanavi23
Thats an incredibly ignorant point of view...not to mention VERY Elitest. Then again im sure you're proud of it.
August 2, 2008 5:08 am
 Joe_Limon Joe_Limon
what is ignorant about it? The people who work hard/smart get a reward. The people who don't work hard/smart get help.
August 2, 2008 1:35 pm
 speed-lover speed-lover
this SLR is the best looking speedster i have ever seen and i am sure they will sell every one they make no matter how much it will cost..hey WCF i want to marry this car
August 2, 2008 9:39 am
 Xanavi23 Xanavi23
Whats ignorant about it ? My mom who broke her back to raise, clothe and feed 4 kids ALL on her own didn't work hard ? No...shes a pathetic, stupid, lazy waste of life ? Right. Its ignorant because people don't bother to realise how HARD some lower classes of life have to work. Its ignorant because you generalize them all, like all "poor" people are a bunch of worthless, lazy drunkards and junkies who don't do anything.
August 2, 2008 2:13 pm
 Joe_Limon Joe_Limon
I said hard/smart. working at home raising kids and holding a job may be working hard, but it sure isn't working smart. If you really wanted to get ahead you go to school and make something of yourself before you have kids. You don't have kids to make yourself something.
August 2, 2008 3:25 pm
 Xanavi23 Xanavi23
Once again, ignorance, my mom did go to school, completed university..education aquired in over-seas at the time wasn't worth Jack. But go on man, keep generalizing.
August 2, 2008 3:34 pm
 Joe_Limon Joe_Limon
ok, I will stop generalizing then. What on earth choice did your mom have to make to end up single and taking care of 4 kids, and I dunno with or without a job?
August 2, 2008 4:08 pm
 Xanavi23 Xanavi23
She thought she was in love and her well-off father highly disapproved so he never helped whatsoever, even in his death. Obviously she had a job...how else would she accomplish what she did.
August 2, 2008 4:13 pm
 Xanavi23 Xanavi23
She was married before coming over and having kids of course.
August 2, 2008 4:15 pm
 Joe_Limon Joe_Limon
So... in this case, her pitfall was that she didn't listen to her father or reason, left the country she was born in to invalidate all of the work she put into her degree, all in the sake of thinking she loved a man who is no longer with her? I am sorry, but I am trying to stay as neutral as possible, but that isn't very smart.
August 2, 2008 4:25 pm
 Xanavi23 Xanavi23
yea, leaving her home country clearly was the bad decision she made in her life, i cant piss in your ear and tell you its raining. Im just saying with the "poor" its not always a case of being lazy or what some(not you) deem worthless. She could have made better choices, but ultimately bad choices are shared by all people.
August 2, 2008 5:03 pm
 Bremen_Koenigsegg Bremen_Koenigsegg
^ @Joe: You're going to do nothing but make enemies if you keep up this banter. Although there is a grain of truth in what you're arguing, it is on the same level as claiming VW drivers are Nazis. Your view of the world is obviously very two-dimensional, and somewhat in need of enlightenment. For a Canadian, I had higher hopes for your understanding of society.
August 2, 2008 8:37 pm
 Joe_Limon Joe_Limon
See that's the thing. Canadians in general are known to be friendly. Does that mean that because I am Canadian I am held to withhold views that are softened so as to offend as few people as possible? I embrace freedom of thought, everyone is different and if you ever find yourself offended by someone elses opinion you always have 2 options. 1. Try to find out why they hold such a view (as is the case with "banter") or 2. realize that everyone is entitled to their own opinions and if you don't want to confront it, don't! Just pass it on. Also, by not accepting and questioning traditional views held by society by actually applying thought and making my own opinions I would argue that I am the more enlightened one. I am probably not like many people on this site, interactions with people who share views differently then my own excites me just as much as seeing new super cars.
August 2, 2008 9:50 pm
 BabyMilo BabyMilo
arent thy stoppinf production of the slr??? coz then this car makes no sence at all and it is just here to teas us
August 2, 2008 8:55 pm
 Xanavi23 Xanavi23
This is pretty much one last blast between Benz and McLaren. From what i know, McLaren might help Benz abit with the "SLC" but its gonna have a much more dominant Benz engineering hand.
August 2, 2008 9:44 pm
 qwerty-acme qwerty-acme
i don't like helmets, but if it drives as well as it looks, i'd put up with it.
August 2, 2008 11:25 pm
 carfan58 carfan58
Joe Lemon and Xanavi23 This is a car site save it for Dr Phil
August 3, 2008 1:41 am
 Xanavi23 Xanavi23
Yea, thanx Cheech.
August 3, 2008 1:51 am
 pscs pscs
i think there will be a passenger seat lol-- if you look at the spy shots the two sides' doors are the same... they probably just covered it up with cardboard. Besides, why would there be 2 hoops if there's only 1 seat?
August 3, 2008 9:05 pm
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