The Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren is just a year shy of two decades old. However, such is the ageless design of the car that one might be forgiven for assuming it was only manufactured a few years ago. The sleek, long-nosed grand tourer is the result of a collaboration between two automobile powerhouses—German manufacturer Mercedes-Benz and British-based McLaren Automotive.
The two carmakers were already in a successful joint Formula One partnership, and it only made sense that they would leverage that collaboration to create a road-going car. The public got the first sighting of the production version at the 2003 Frankfurt Auto Show. It marked the next phase of a project that had kicked off a few years before.
