In order to speed up development, they bought the best car to get technology from: a McLaren F1 GTR. After the car got to Mercedes, they stripped its body panels and put on a weird new one similar ...

a fraction of the price of the McLaren F1. Of course, the CLK GTR is a very different car than the F1, but the two raced against each other in the 1997 FIA GT Championship. The winner? Mercedes.

Among the pantheon of top-level sports-car-makers—your garden-variety Ferrari, Aston Martin, etc.—a common thread has emerged: Each one offers its own in-house verification services for its ...

With only 106 made, it's a big deal when any McLaren ... from Porsche, Mercedes, and others. Its heavily modified bodywork was designed to promote downforce than the previous F1 GTR, which was ...

Mercedes is out testing its third generation SLK roadster. The current model has ... AMG Purespeed is Affalterbach’s answer to the McLaren Elva The PureSpeed speedster is the first in Mercedes ...

The McLaren ... GTR had won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1995 (a feat the Longtail never matched), McLaren needed to upgrade the car to keep pace with rivals like the Porsche 911 GT1 and Mercedes ...