For those of you who don’t know, the Mercedes Benz SLR 722 GT is a track version of the SLR, powered by a supercharged 5.5 liter AMG V8, which delivers 680 hp and allows the car to achieve some really impressive performance numbers: 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in 3.3 seconds and a top speed of 314 km/h (195 mph). But there’s a downside to all this, of course. The car, which can only be purchased from RENNtech, has a very impressive pricing also, $1.2 million. You’d say that no one would be crazy enough to pay that much money for a track-only car, but it seems that there were a few rich folks who bought the car, because here’s a video of eight SLR 722 GT’s at an event organised by RENNtech. Enjoy!

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We already know that the Mercedes McLaren SLR’s production is coming to an end and it seems that the United States will finally get one. Only one. The special final SLR will be sold in an exclusive online auction on November 20. Beside the 617 hp supercharged V8, the car also features an unique Sienna Pearl Super Metallic Paint finish with metallic elements, Tobacco Brown composition leather interior and 19 inch SLR wheels with special brake system fitted with gold brake calipers. The car’s price is $529,500 and all funds will go to St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. For more details, check out the Mercedes Benz USA website.

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The last version of the Mercedes McLaren SLR supercar, the Speedster, has prooved to be one intesively spied car, partly due to its quite innovative design. All the spy shots culminated with this video of a lap on the Nurburgring, that has been posted on the YouTube channel by german car show Auto Motor und Sport. Enjoy!

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The crash you see in these photos happened sometime during the morning of July 15th, somewhere in Qatar. By looking at what was left of the Mercedes SLR, we can tell that the car was travelling at very high speeds. And, as you’d expect, the 22 year old driver instantly died. We don’t have any other details so far, so we don’t know if the driver lost control of the car or it had some mechanical problems. All we know is that this accident really is terrifying and shows, once again, that supercars might be really really cool, but they’re definitely dangerous.

More photos after the jump.
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Just as you were enjoying the new SLR spy shots, here I am to burst your bubble. The two companies will part ways in 2009. A Mercedes official said that they will not renew the agreement when it expires.

AMG will be making the new performance coupe from 2010, renaming it SLC. Just to confuse you a little bit more about all the Mercedes acronyms I guess.

Seems that Mercedes wants to focus on its core values again. After ditching Chrysler, they’re trying to get back to basics and be less distracted. They probably feel that their aura of engineering excellence is a bit dented after the reliability problems of the las few years.

The SLR had a moderate success, mainly due to a proce tag of around 452,000 Euros. They sold 1,577 of them, but they were plagued with technical problems.

We can only salute Mercedes returning to its old ways. Remains to be seen what the results will be.

We’re sure this is bad news to every car fan around the world, because, even though it didn’t had the success it deserved (Mercedes planned on building around 500 units per year but managed to sell 261 units in 2006 and 275 in 2007), the Mercedes Benz SLR McLaren is a very spectacular super car.

Jointly developed by Mercedes-Benz and McLaren Automotive and built in England, in Portsmouth and at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, Surrey, starting from 2005, the SLR stands for “Sport, Leicht, Rennsport”, which is German for sport, lights, racing.

And now, after quietly ending the SLR coupe production at the end of last year, it seems that the SLR production will end for good in 2009. And this will also mark the end of the cooperation between Mercedes and McLaren. Even though Mercedes owns 40% of the British company, they will not work together. Especially with McLaren preparing it’s own supercar, codenamed the P11, which is most likely to be introduced in 2011.

So, as we said, it’s sad to see the SLR coming to an end, especially with it being an important part in Mercedes’ and McLaren’s history and, why not, the auto history. However, we confort ourselves with the thought that, besides the P11, Mercedes will also come up with a supercar of its own and replace the SLR.

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