SLR gets a power boost! Continental GT Drops its top!

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SLR gets a power boost! Bently Continental GT Drops its top!

Hot off the press from MoterTrend magazine! SLR gets even more awesome!
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CGT sounded like the Carrera GT.

The article is way too small too see. perhaps it can be made bigger?

 

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the link above the pic is a little bigger and slightly more tolerable. or just change view font to a larger setting. strains the eyes, so i just scanned till i saw a number...seems like it'll get more than 650hps.

 

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650's nice... You think people will be disspointed that they just purchased a supercar that is being re-vamped for moore power. I'd be a bit pissed.

 

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same here. but maybe they'll use this 650hp one as a race spec version or something that'll cost more than a base slr.

 

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Maybe if its like $100K more than fine, but anything less is really close, and perhaps prior owners would have waited or something. People who bought these have money, $50K or so doesn't matter to them, they just wanted to have the state of the art top of the line version.

 

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Anyone see the slight design changes like the large single side exhause pipes? the side vents have been changed as well. It`s also said to be lighter
than the currant SLR. I think the price is going to go up big time as you indicated AlxAmg!! The performance should be way better than the currant one though.

 

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Wow, Enzo like SLR? Im interested, design sounds nicer too... haven't heard or seen anything.... Should be a treat!

 

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thats very good news ,this is gonna be a real enzo killer , and they are talking about the p8 in the article , so they r gonna produce it ! bring it on benz mclaren

 

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AlxAmg said:

650's nice... You think people will be disspointed that they just purchased a supercar that is being re-vamped for moore power. I'd be a bit pissed.

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Maybe you only need a chip?

The article say 650hp, better aerodynamic and less weight.

Also click this link to read the text



the article also mention that the new Z06 has 550hp and not 505hp.

 

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i dont think slr owners will be disspointed ,this will be much more expensive than the regular slr ,,, its totally differant ...

 

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DARK CHILD said:

i dont think ppl will be disspointed ,this will be much more expensive than the regular slr ,,, its totally differant ...

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"The SLR hasnt been the world-beater Mercedes and McLaren expected, having been shaded by Ferrari Enzo's and Porsche Carrera GT. Our sources say this car is intended to boost sluggish sales in much same way the LM version helped shift the remaining McLaren F1 at the end of that car's production run."

 

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Whatever the case it looks like the Porsche CGT and Ferrari Enzo`s going to get a kick in the pants from the looks of this article.

This improved SLR should live up to the stats!

 

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GTA69 said:

Whatever the case it looks like the Porsche CGT and Ferrari Enzo`s going to get a kick in the pants from the looks of this article.

This improved SLR should live up to the stats!

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Well you never know Enzo and CGT might be improved too but I doubt. CGT is fine piece of car anyway.

 

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As for Enzo there is the more exlusive Fxx, and as for the Porsche they simly need to involve Gembella into further detail, Porsches are extremely easy to upgrade, usually a simple ECU fix is all it takes to get another 50-100 hp out of them.

 

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AlxAmg said:

As for Enzo there is the more exlusive Fxx, and as for the Porsche they simly need to involve Gembella into further detail, Porsches are extremely easy to upgrade, usually a simple ECU fix is all it takes to get another 50-100 hp out of them.

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I dont think there are much more to improve on the CGT, maybe more horsepowers but the handling is already perfect.

 

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Agreed the CGT is my favorite supercar, i would leave it just the way it is, other than a hp mod of an ECU flash. Thats it.

 

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Am I the only one who have noticed that the article states that MB is working on a F430 rival codenamed P8?

 

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AlxAmg said:

CGT sounded like the Carrera GT.

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LOL, me too.
I was like what is that Bentley doing there

Luwalira said:

Am I the only one who have noticed that the article states that MB is working on a F430 rival codenamed P8?

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That could quite be the case. The article is too small for me to read

 

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klier said:

LOL, me too.
I was like what is that Bentley doing there




That could quite be the case. The article is too small for me to read

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Hehehehe.... same here... title fixed.


I was gonna say the same thing i cant even see the article, i guess eye sight goes in the late 20's. I tried to look at the articel afterwards, and still couldn't see it nor read it clearly.