German Car Zone

Well, where do I start Robert?
One thing I’ve learned from being on this forum (and the old forums) is that I can never convince another car fan to love my favorite car brand. We all have different tastes in cars and I respect that.

Anyway, the SLR is a supercar to me. Ignore the fact that it has airbags, AC, CD changer, and what not.
The car is made of carbon fiber, the monstrous power under the hood, the way it gains and loses speed, the ceramic brakes, the wing, and the location of the engine. You don’t see every regular car with such specs. That tells me it’s a supercar. You might not like the design or the performance, but hey, I believe it’s a different kind of supercar, maybe a new segment J. We all know MB sucks at making manual transmissions. That’s probably why they went a head with the automatic. But it’s usually close to its competitor’s performance. It’s not like it’s always way behind. It does that while it’s more luxurious and safer. What else can you ask for?

Oh well, that’s all I gotta say for now.

I found this color list on another MB site. The SLR colors for 2006:

EXTERIOR COLOR CHOICES

(2 Default)
-Crystal Laurit Silver
-Crystal Galaxit Black
+
(11 new)
-Pure Black
-Crystal Picotite Black
-Crystal Cassiterite Black
-Crystal Coronadite Gray
-Crystal Antimon Gray
-Crystal Osmium Gray
-Crystal Palladium Gray
-Crystal Fayalite Green
-Crystal Amazonite Blue
-Crystal Digenite Blue
-Crystal Covelline Blue




INTERIOR LEATHER CHOICES

(2 Default)
-300SL Red
-Black
+
(10 new)
-Pastel Yellow
-Sand
-Light Brown
-Copper
-Beige
-Tobacco Brown
-Silver
-Royal Blue
-Green
-Dark Pacific Blue

A SLR in one of the new Gray colors.



Now I wonder if one of those Grays in that list is the one from the Vision R63? That has to be the best Gray I've ever seen.

M

Well you don't need to convert me in to a Mercedes fan Yaz - I have always been one.

There gotta be more to that list.. ive seen a white SLR..

Well I'm pretty sure for an extra 1K you can have a SLR painted in any color that MB offers. I've seen a Mars Red (read: bright) S500 before so I'm sure a White SLR is not a problem. Those colors on that lists are probably exclusive to the SLR like some color are exclusive to the Maybachs, but with the right money you can have any color you want from any of the Benz products I'm sure.

M

lol, ive also seen a bright red S-class, like an A-class colour on it, we had an E-class a few years ago and we found a colour not on the E-class colour chart and asked if we could have it and they said no problem...!! i suppose if in every brochure they listed / painted every colour then people would get confused lol

Anything is possible when it comes to these cars... but I could bet anything that it will be much much more than that... you spend 800 dollars on metallic paint on an E90

A bit late to this but I guess I might as well give my opinion. It's already been said before that the SLR has too many compromises. If you look at the current roster of "supercars" you'll find that they all have function over form. Every last one of them are cars for the pros... look at this list. Enzo, CGT, CCR, McLaren F1, Maserati MC12, Zonda, Ford GT. These are all cars that will kill you if you don't know how to drive them properly. Most of them don't have the luxury that the SLR has. None of them use automatic gearboxes.
Obviously, the looks are subjective, but you can't help but think that McLaren and Benz could have done so much more to the SLR. They had all the resources and talent to challenge those cars. They should have gone with the philosphy that those cars were created.
Instead, what you have is a GT a la Bentley GT and SL that is the most powerful of its kind. You can say that Benz did a survey and blah blah blah, people want boot space and what not. All they could have done is an SL or CL on steroids. Benz shouldn't have built another GT, they should have built a true supercar.

On the SLR that may be the case, but on "regular" Mercedes models you can have any color from any model series for a 1K fee (special order charge as they call it).

M

[quote=Merc1;26876]I found this color list on another MB site. The SLR colors for 2006:

EXTERIOR COLOR CHOICES

What site is this list from?

SLK & SL in Mars Red, and maybe someday a .....

A line from my youth that has stuck in my head...

"Yea, Black says Attitude but Red is Fast"