An old style Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren 722 is up for public sale. The mannequin rolled off the meeting line again in 2007.
This automobile that’s up for public sale at Carry a Trailer was bought new from Walter’s Mercedes-Benz in Riverside, California, to the present proprietor’s husband.
The automobile acquired a Crystal Antimony Gray paint end. And it’s – because the title suggests – one of many 722 such items which have ever been constructed. The automobile is on the market accompanied by the unique paperwork. There may be the proprietor’s guide amongst them.
The odometer of the 13-year previous automobile reads 5,471 kilometers (3,400 miles).
Mercedes designed the SLR McLaren 722 as a tribute to the 300 SLR that Sir Stirling Moss received the well-known Mille Milgia race with. Apart from the silver end, the mannequin acquired a carbon fiber entrance splitter and a distinguished rear air diffuser.
The Mercedes-Benz SLR is a cultured brute on the street
The car runs on 19-inch wheels with Michelin Pilot Tremendous Sport tires of 255/35 on the entrance and 295/30 on the rear. It additionally acquired carbon ceramic brake discs and crimson brake calipers. A tuned suspension with stiffer springs and shock absorbers guarantee that the automobile acts is each inch a brute on the street, but makes no compromises by way of every day driving.
In contrast with the usual mannequin, the 722 version got here with a 10-millimeter decrease floor clearance.
Below the elongated and sculpted hood of the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren 722 there’s a 5.4-liter supercharged V8 engine. It pumps out 650 horsepower at 6,500 rpm and a peak torque of 820 Newton meters at 4,000 rpm. The unit delivers the assets in direction of the rear axle through a five-speed computerized transmission.
These figures make the SLR McLaren 722 speed up from a standstill to 100 km/h in 3.6 seconds, it took 10.2 seconds to succeed in 200 km/h and 27.6 seconds to go all the best way to 300 km/h. The automobile hits 337 km/h.
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