Mercedes SLR Meets The Mille Miglia (Again)

Posted by www.eMercedesBenz.com on October 21, 2005 at 9:30 AM CST

Have you every wondered what the perfect way to test drive the  
Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren would be?

I'm sure you all could weigh in with your own opinion on this one,  
but after reading Motor Trend's recent review of the SLR, their  
testing scenario would be difficult to rival.  They recently had the  
pleasure of driving Mercedes' supercar on a 1,000 mile jaunt on the  
Mille Miglia, the stomping ground of Mercedes' originial SLR.  If  
that wasn't enough, they took Stirling Moss, one of the greatest  
motorsports drivers of all time (and driver of the original SLR),  
along for the ride.

The article takes an interesting look at how the current SLR stacks  
up against it's ancestors, the 300SLR and 300SL Gullwing, and also  
provides some insight into what it was like for Stirling to complete  
the same course, some 50 years ago.

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