Mercedes McLaren SLR, a GT ????
 

This thing has perturbated me since the SLR was considered a GT...
the thing is that IMO mercedes says its a GT cause they couldnt develop a supercar...

so im gonna make a list of what does it make it be a gt and what a super car

GT:
Auto transmission
GPS
Auto air con
Radio

Supercar:
Engine
Perfo
Top Speed
Joint with McLaren
F1 tech
F1 design

so in my opinion its a bad supercar... and they justify saying its a GT by integrating some comfort extras...
and also one more thing, if i remember well, when the Vision SLR was presented, it was presented as a supercar not a GT

a GT does not have to be Auto (transmission)
nor does it need GPS

how ever a GT is a 2 door car, ussually with only 2 seats. How ever enough room to take some luggage with you

right, but those are the things that supposedly make the SLR a GT... and i think theyre usually 2+2's which the SLR isnt either

Who considered the SLR a GT ? because it's a amazing supercar !

Mercedes... and it aint that amazing... hehehe

I'd have to say that it is a GT car cause it's got a heavy auto transmission, leather seats, a/c, etc... it pretty much has everything a luxury car has, except a luxury car doesn't have that powerful supercharged V8 under the hood.

I'd say GT, its a very large, heavy car with a powerfull engine but overall a suspension tuned more toward cross-country driving then the track.

the enzo and the cgt have a/c and leather covered seats too...

yes but you cant use them everyday and have the same comfort level as with the SLR. and GT's dont have to be 2+2's because the regular SL is a 2 seater and it is considered a GT i think. if the SLR had a manual then i would agree that the SLR is in the same class as the enzo and CGT.

if you do put all3 in the same class though i wouldnt say that mercedes built a bad supercar, you could look at it as porsche and ferrari both built supercars beyond perfection. but you cant deny that they are different animals.

i said most of em are 2+2...

well the SLR has sequential gearbox as well as the enzo, so the only manual is the CGT

maybe not bad, but not good enough

Mercedes originally planned the car as a supercar to compete with Ferrari's Enzo etc, however, once Mercedes intervened and stopped McLaren from developing the "Vision SLR", they had to move the goalposts to a GT so as not to look like a failure of a joint project of the supercar that they hoped for.

I would call a car with four seats a coupé. "My definitions" are something like: A GT is comfortable, user friendly sportscar with luggage space while a supercar is an extremely fast sportscar where no practical considerations comes in the way of the driving experience.

I'm honestly not sure about the SLR. I feel it's a GT. Maybe because of the shape, which resembles the SL. It is also heavy and it has a rather large boot. On the other hand, it has supercar performance, and Richard said the grip was amazing. The ride is really firm, which doesn't belong in the GT class.

It's somewhere in between the classes...

Its definately a supercar, but in my opinion its a GT as well. Just a stupidly fast one.... Theres not much that can beat it around a track in the big picture of things

everything is marketing matter IMO, once the segments are defined by each brand according to its interests...for instance, in general the very powerful 2 door cars are classified in two sort of class

the GT class such as the ferrari 550, the Aston Martin Vanquish, the Jag XKR, the vette, the viper, the murcielago....(2+2 cars with some level of confort, not very radical reactions when driving it)...in conclusion...cars that let do many and many kilometers on motorway in a confortable way.......and i think that Merc want to enphasize that the SLR belongs to this group

whereas the supercars spirit is totally different, its aim is to find out the maximum efficiency and sensation of a racing car on racetracks, regardless the confort, noise of the cars...this group has the following cars such as the ferrari enzo, the porsche carrera GT, the lambo diablo GT, the Pagani Zonda, the Koenisegg...

im pretty sure there is no clutch in the SLR's gearbox. it can be controlled similarly to the sequential gearboxes but its not the same as the enzo's.