RE: Chris Harris video: Mercedes SLS GT

[Ollieb7]

Just think how much lighter it would be if it wern't so damn WIDE!

[D200]

Looks very plain for £200k but I guess that's their intention, a 'subtle supercar'

I also think that they look much much better in any other colour then white.

For example even brown looks infinity better:

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5228/5574912568_a389...

[graeme4130]

RemyMartin said:

Guess I'm on my own with this view but.....


This car does nothing for me, blandness beyond blandness to look at. OK it sounds lovely but I just can't get excited about anything this car has to offer...

You're not alone. I had a spin in a friends 'regular' SLS, and although sounding absolutely heavenly and being a reasonable place to be interior wise, it didn't give me even a remote trouser twitch
If that was the market I was buying into, my cash would be in a 458 where the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end after every drive

Still, nice video Chris, but maybe a bit more detail on the car itself as we'll as slidy shots too

[gaz1234]

how do i unregister?

[George29]

Do they do the GT in roadster form? I love the SLS but there's no way I could own a car with those stupid, gimmicky gullwing doors.

[HighwayStar]

RemyMartin said:

Guess I'm on my own with this view but.....


This car does nothing for me, blandness beyond blandness to look at. OK it sounds lovely but I just can't get excited about anything this car has to offer...

Nope... Same here. I don't think it's rubbish and can see the attraction but it does nowt for me either. Goes for all Mercedes cooking stuff. If I had big wedge it would go in another direction.
Hats off to them for building these mad cars though.

[DanielSan]

This car looks and sounds fantastic, if my 6 numbers came up I'd want one.... Up until the point I remember the new Vanquish exists, and then it suddently seems to look a bit ungainly.

[Maldini35]

I'd love a go in one (who wouldn't?) but I'd never spend my cash on one (if I had it).
Just too wide, heavy and not pretty enough. Great noise though.

[murraynt]

I still think the SLR is a much nicer looking car. The SLS looks just a bit boring to me.
It has neither the brash looks of the SLR or the elegance of the old SL's.

Sounds good though.

[reggie82]

RemyMartin said:

Guess I'm on my own with this view but.....


This car does nothing for me, blandness beyond blandness to look at. OK it sounds lovely but I just can't get excited about anything this car has to offer...

Totally agree. Great car, but just has no character and I can't get excited about it (from watching a vid anyway).

[monthefish]

Stuart said:

The Pits said:

Still can't work out why it's so ugly.

The original SLS is ball-acheingly beautiful.

Passenger impact regs I reckon. The requirement for sufficient clearance between bonnet and engine block gives you a bonnet line (and specifically height) from which the rest of the car must be drawn, and be in proportion with. As a result you get an all round bigger car with more cartoonish dimensions. The driver's seat is particularly far back in the SLS (you feel as if you're sat between the rear wheels, US muscle car style) and you still need a boot, so it can't get away with a pretty rear end either.

Passenger impact regs eh - wen did they come in?
(It's a pretty bad accident if your passenger is potentially coming into contact with the engine block )

It's probably more likely Pedestrian imapct regs, and even then it's no roadblock to good looking cars.

Inhibitor to good looking cars, perhaps, but like all other aspects of vehcile engineering, it's a constraint that can be worked with/around until the correct solution is found. They've actaully got it quite easy as all the car has do to, basically, is go fast, handle reasonably well and look good.

The car is ugly because the eningeering/design team allowed it to be so.
Simple as.