Spied–Mercedes-Benz SLC supercar
With the partnership with McLaren coming to an end, Mercedes and its AMG performance unit have hooked up with HWA, a German engineering company that builds cars for the German Touring Car championship, to craft a new supercar.
It doesn’t hurt that HWA is owned by Hans Werner Aufrecht, one of the two former Mercedes engineers who created AMG in 1967.
The production SLC isn’t expected before late 2010, though we might see a concept version (or Vision, in Mercedes naming strategy) earlier-perhaps at the fall 2009 Frankfurt motor show.
Powertrain speculation centers on a V8 with a displacement in the range of 6.2 liters and output in the neighborhood of 600 hp.
This prototype sports big wheels and a massive brake rotor and caliper combination that we’ll likely see make it to the road-going version.
But you can be sure that the Viper bits will end up in the recycling bin–ready for cloaking the next Mercedes supercar mule.
just go with it on July 26th 2008 in Exotic Car Rental