The Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren is a sports car and supercar automobile co-developed by DaimlerChrysler and McLaren Cars. It is assembled at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, England.
Mercedes-Benz claims that the car accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.8 seconds, 200 in 10.6 seconds, and 300 km/h in 28.8 seconds, and has a top speed of 334 km/h (208 mph) which made it the fastest automatic car in the world until 2005, when the Bugatti Veyron arrived. The car uses carbon fibre for its body construction which makes it lighter. The car is, however still quite heavy at 1768kg due to the numerous luxury items included in it.
Car and Driver got a 0-60 time of 3.6 seconds, and a quarter-mile time of 11.6 seconds at 125 mph. These are during a test session that took place in the late afternoon, when October temperatures were on the decline. C&D suggests the times may be even lower if temperatures were higher. Car and Driver got top gear acceleration 30-50mph and 50-70mph times of 1.7 and 2.4 seconds, which are the fastest ever recorded by the magazine in a production car. (That is due to the automatic transmission, which shifts to a lower gear when the throttle is opened at a speed to which the current gear is not suited. Unless the car was in manual mode which would show how amazing of an engine it has under its hood. Manual transmissions cannot do that, of course.) The SLR pulled 0.97g on the skidpad.
The German magazine Auto Motor und Sport, in 2004, tested the SLR at the Nardo test track in southern Italy. They reported that the SLR accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.8 seconds, 200 km/h in 10.7 seconds, and 300 km in 30.6 seconds. The car's 400-meter time and 1-km time were found to be 11.5 seconds at 207 km/h, and 20.5 seconds at 269 km/h, respectively.
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