Filed under: Spy Photos, Convertibles, Supercars, Mercedes-Benz
Spy Shots: Mercedes SLR McLaren 722 Roadster... seriously
by Noah Joseph on Aug 12th 2008 at 6:59PM 
They have got to be kidding. Another SLR derivative? Before the Mercedes-McLaren supercar speeds off into the horizon, it will have spawned no less than six different versions - including the original coupe, the Roadster, 722, 722 GT, the upcoming "Speedster", and this latest variant - if the latest reports are to be believed. We would have thought that the spied Speedster version would have been the last, but then spy shots surface of what appears to be a 722 Roadster.
This undisguised vehicle carries all the visual cues of the 722 edition coupe: the dark grey 19" forged alloys hiding red brake calipers over oversized discs, plus the carbon fiber lip spoiler and darkened taillight clusters. The convertible can be expected to carry the same 650-hp supercharged V8 as the 722 coupe, only with the nifty hard-soft top from the roadster. By the state of readiness evident from these spy shots, we'd venture that the 722 Roadster will appear before the Speedster. And we trust that will be the end of the SLR... until someone says otherwise, of course.
[Source: World Car Fans]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Torrent 7:04PM (8/12/2008)
Expensive.......... Quick........Useless..........
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A S 8:43PM (8/12/2008)
People do not buy cars in this price range for their "usefulness". It is no more useless than any of its competitors.
Devil666 9:25PM (8/12/2008)
if anything, wouldn't this car be considered more useful than any of the competition? i mean, considering the boot and the fact it can get over speed bumps.......
im gonna have to call it the most useful supercar ever.... or does that just make it a GT? im so confused.
paulmer 2:30AM (8/13/2008)
Torrent, every single comment of yours just fails. Please sto commenting.
Torrent 3:37AM (8/13/2008)
lmao
Torrent 3:51AM (8/13/2008)
Don't get me wrong. I love this car. I just don't know what makes Mercedes think poor sales figures means make MORE variants of this car. I hope that mid-engined successor is coming sooner than later.
MachinaDC5 7:29PM (8/12/2008)
I'm sure it'll still be extremely fast even with no top... However I really wish they'd kill those I'm-clearly-compensating-for-something fenders and awful goblin nose of a front end. I guess you don't need to be humble when you're one of the faster, more expensive cars on the planet.
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LloydChiro 7:53PM (8/12/2008)
I'm not pedantic or anything, but shouldn't the sentence read "...it will have spawned no *fewer* than six different versions...?"
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Isuzu32 8:38PM (8/12/2008)
One thing I will say is that the entire car looks good. The lines flow so smoothly, you don't see that on every supercar.
Is it really a supercar though? Or is it just the worlds most powerful droptop GT?
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montoym 8:44PM (8/12/2008)
I suppose it is also possible that the owner decided to contact an aftermarket company to turn his 722 into a roadster. Many aftermarket options would be indistinguishable from a factory job.
I could be wrong though, it may be a concept, I'm just giving other possibilities.
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Rob 9:36PM (8/12/2008)
I think this is the High Country Special...whoops wrong car
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mk 11:51PM (8/12/2008)
At least the roadster looks better than the coupe.
The coupe's roof proportions are way off. If a car has a dorky roof, it might as well be convertible to open air.
The SLR with the top down actually looks long, low, and wide. This just gets the 722 treatment under the hood.
There are still better cars out there, though. It looks a bit more cohesive and less added-on than the newest high end, overly heavy SL AMG.
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Nick 12:24AM (8/13/2008)
This is one ugly car.
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hydrogenvodka 1:06AM (8/13/2008)
The new SLR McLaren Lewis Hamilton Edition...
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Paul 9:54AM (9/29/2008)
I agree, this is one really ugly car.
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