Rudolf Uhlenhaut did not own the SLR. He drove it as a company car also privatly but it remaind by Mercedes Benz. Rudolf Uhlenhaut once drove the distance of 220 km from Stuttgart to munich in 1 hour! On public roads!!!
A wonderful car in every sense of the word!! It will remain one of the Great icon of the Autosport world!! I am however disappointed that Audi never made a street friendly competitor to this car and it’s derivatives!!
Holy SH#*! ... only 2 ever made... DAMN ... Awesome sounding machine.. So... showing up with this at Concours d'elegance or any of those other serious car shows... and pretty much this thing might as well steal the show on cheer rarity and pedigree ... jezz ... i will assume is sort of impossible to insure to drive on normal roads...
You neglected to mention the horrendous driving position, with the throttle and clutch on separate sides of the central gearbox tunnel; details perhaps…
One job you had. Wish you spent more time on the design details of the interior and engine. I am giving you a 1 of 10. Go see how Blondie did justice to this machine.
When Ulenhaut used the 300SLR to drive around Europe it had a huge, ugly muffler hung outside the car so it wsn't as bad as this test drive inside or outside.
The Mercedes-Benz SLR isn't only music itself.........it's a symphony! Playing background music whilst starting the SLR is completely unnecessary & frankly a little aggravating.
Todays sports- and racecars are faster and with better handling and every ape can drive it and even buy it, because of credit. But, in its time, this Uhlenhaut Coupé has a soul. And there are two of them ever built. Today you see Lamborghinis, Ferraris etc. on every corner. And the law killed cars like this. Most important job of the police is, to chase cars which drives more than 85 miles/hour or are a little bit over the noise limit. in the 50s and 60s, there were no speed and noise limits! What a boring world human created!
