Before I start, I guess I have to go into a laborious and long explanation of who Stirling Moss is, so you get the idea of how important the dedication of this car is. Stirling Moss is the best British racing car driver in history, ever, if that makes sense. And he's a "Sir".

Wow, that really didn't take as long as I expected.

So anyway, Sir Moss, who probably has the most outstandingly cool given name in history - what I wouldn't give to have the name "Stirling"...! - turns 80 this year, and it really is about time he had an outstandingly cool car named after him. So this is what they came up with.

This is, when you get down to the nitty gritty, just an SLR. Which we shouldn't scoff at mind you - with a supercharged V8 engine pumping out 485kW, and a 0-100kmh time of 3.4 seconds, this is hardly tame. It will surge all the way to 349kmh, if you want to take it there. No doubt you like what you see. I like, you like, we all like.

But SLR production stops in May, so only 75 of these beauties will be built, and before you start thinking that you'll have a chance of buying one, allow me to sorely dissappoint you - they've only been offered to current SLR owners, and they've all already been snapped up. For a bargain, of course: $1,536,000 my sources tell me. Yeowch.

But the point of me writing this article was not just to introduce to you another irrelevant supercar, but to illustrate that for me, the Stirling Moss is exactly what the Merc/McLaren SLR should have been in the first place. When they decided to make a new supercar, why didn't they look to the Mercedes and McLaren supercars of old for inspiration? Thing about the 50's Mercedes SL Gullwing, or the McLaren F1, which featured the odd number of three seats, which a central driving position. These cars were wild, extroadinary, and there was nothing else like them, so they became instant classics. The SLR was unremarkable in the world of supercars - yes, it was fast, but they're all fast. The SLR simply wasn't "super". I believe that the SLR Stirling Moss certainly is super. Super Dooper.

The Stirling Moss is brilliant for the crazy things, like the bonnet that accounts for about half the car's total length, and the quad exhaust pipes that protrude from the side of the car, not the rear. It is also brilliant for what it lacks - a roof (though it does have a little tonneau cover you can fit if it rains), side windows, a windscreen... yes it does not have a said windscreen. It does have a small flap, but this is the fastest open air experience you can possibly have in a road-legal car. End of story. Not really, I have more to say, actually.

They've obviously borrowed the styling-cues from the old 350 SLR, itself a classic, but the elegance and perfection in which they are executed in such a modern way is truly breathtaking. And it even features a proper McLaren paintjob - a highly reflective, almost mirror like silver. Yes, this is definitely a car for my dream garage folks, sure is.

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