The 2009 Mercedes Benz McLaren SLR Stirling Moss has been unveiled and with just 75 copies of the $1.01 Million boutique supercar being produced, it’s a fitting start for the 2009
Limited to just 75-units worldwide (exclusive to current SLR owners), the Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR Stirling Moss boasts a supercharged 5.5L V8 engine that produces 650hp.
The engineers at Mercedes have developed a new system to monitor the drowsiness of a driver and provide an alert before the driver falls asleep and causes a crash. The luxury car business may be prestigious with its gleaming, aspirational image, but is a very demanding one as well for manufacturers. With almost all luxury-car manufacturers offering comparable levels of comfort, opulence, and performance, these famed brands are constantly on the lookout for new USPs that will put some distance between the others and themselves. A very precise steering shaft sensor now monitors inputs to a tenth of a degree to help determine a driver’s reaction time and the severity of corrections made to keep the car on course.
The most exciting car to debut at the Detroit Auto Show this January could well be the 2009 Mercedes McLaren SLR Stirling Moss. Hit the jump to see this beast in our gallery below.
A design created by Studiotorino and IAAD (Istituto d’Arte Applicata e Design) Coupetorino Mercedes SL is a coupe based on the Mercedes-Benz SL roadster. The object of the design was to create a coupe from the roadster, without compromising on the aesthetics of the roadster. The project includes a 1:4 maquette, which was created on a model provided by Mercedes.
It’s hardly the first example of the technology — we saw a very similar system from Delphi in action at CES last year — but Mercedes-Benz’s new SPLITVIEW COMMAND system appears to be one of the first instances of it being used in a production vehicle, and that certainly counts for something. From the looks of it, the system is very similar to the Delphi one, with the 8-inch display able to let the driver keep an eye on the GPS while the passenger simultaneously watches a DVD or something equally distracting on the very same screen. That’s done with the use of a special filter that masks the display and only lets the proper pixels slip into view depending on where you are seated. No word on what sort of premium the system will demand, if any, but it’ll apparently be available on all S-Class models starting in the summer of 2009.
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