Mercedes-AMG 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Shooting Brake By Gabriel Naretto

This concept reinterprets the legacy of the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé through an AMG Iens – long hood, cab-rearwardstance, and a sculpted shooting brake tail. Clean surfacing, star-inspired lighting, and controlled volumes frame a GT that feels heritage-rooted yet forward in presence within the Mercedes-AMG universe.
 

The Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR is probably one of the best-known two-seat sports racing cars. It took part in the 1955 World Sportscar Championship but was part of the catastrophic crash and fire at Le Mans that same year, and its domination ended prematurely.
 
Notable drivers included the legendary Pierre Levegh, Juan Manuel Fangio, as well as Stirling Moss, who described it as “the greatest sports racing car ever built – really an unbelievable machine.” It was also derived by Daimler-Benz motorsport chief Rudolf Uhlenhaut as a road-legal 300 SLR coupe, with just two examples made and known as the Uhlenhaut Coupé.
 
One of them, sold by RM Sotheby’s to an unknown collector at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in 2022, it became the most expensive car sold at auction at the original price of $143 million!
 

Logically, the 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe is one of the most coveted cars in the world, right there in the legends realm with the “La Voiture Noire” Bugatti Type 57 SC Atlantic and others like it. Naturally, we’re not surprised that even the parallel universes of vehicular CGI have a knack for it via the members of the imaginative guild of digital car content creators.
 
For example, the good folks over at Car Design World (aka ‘cardesignworld’ on social media) tipped us off to this unofficial design project by Gabriel Naretto. Better known on social media as ‘gabriel_nare,’ this calisthenics athlete is also an automotive and yacht designer for Bertone and the Italian coachbuilder Garavini Torino.
 
But this time around, he only has eyes for the Mercedes-Benz subsidiary Mercedes-AMG, and thus, he came up with an unofficial, hypothetical design project featuring the iconic Uhlenhaut Coupe. It’s not a direct revival or a restomod but something else entirely, hence the new name: Mercedes-AMG Uhlenhaut Shooting Brake.
 

The idea is to embrace heritage but also innovate, hence the “modern tribute shaped by proportion and restraint.” The author explains: “This concept reinterprets the legacy of the Mercedes Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé through an AMG lens – long hood, cab-rearward stance, and a sculpted shooting brake tail.” There’s also clean surfacing, star-inspired lighting elements, and “controlled volumes frame a GT that feels heritage-rooted yet forward in presence within the Mercedes AMG universe.”
 
Most importantly, it features a completely alternate styling compared to the current design at Mercedes-Benz and Mercedes-AMG, with – dare we say – much better integration of the three-pointed star-like lighting signature than in the real world. Of course, if it’s technically feasible to make such LED headlights is a different thing altogether.
 
However, we appreciate the gullwing doors and – even though you might be tricked into thinking otherwise by the lack of visible exhaust tips and the closed-off bronze grille – this model is not an EV like so many other Mercedes models. Instead, it has a V12 heart, as evidenced by the badges on the sides! So, what do you think – yay or nay?