Thursday 28th January 2010

Mercedes SLS AMG Production Starts

Gullwings start rolling out of Sindelfingen factory

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Production of the new Mercedes SLS AMG supercar has now started at Mercedes' German Sindelfingen facility.

The Uber-AMG actually starts life at the Magna Steyr factory in Austria, where the aluminium body is made - and in AMG's facility in Affalterbach, where the 571hp, 6.2-litre V8 comes together.

The bodies and engines then make their way to Sindelfingen for final assembly.

Sales of the £150k, 197mph Gullwing supercar (which PH editor Chris-R wangled a go in at Laguna Seca last year - swine) are due to start on 27 March.

[LukeBird]

Gorgeous...!

[soad]

This machine will be epic - V8 sound to die for. I want one so bad

[alexpa]

Too heavy (although significantly less than the SL), and for me the front looks like a dog, at least in photos.

Why not this face or similar:

[nav p]

I'll have mine in black with black leather please.................(i wish)

[Beirut Taxi]

alexpa said:

Too heavy

Quite a statement given that you've probably never driven it.

It's easy to say something like for example "They should shave 100KG off" but you get to the point where the cost of saving each KG becomes astronomically expensive.

I would put money on it being as light as they could possibly make it within the budget.

Edited by Beirut Taxi on Thursday 28th January 13:32

[vintageracer01]

alexpa said:

Too heavy (although significantly less than the SL), and for me the front looks like a dog, at least in photos.

Why not this face or similar:

WOW !!!

This is soooooooooo much better than the real one. So much smoother and closer to the original feel & expression of the 300 SL Gullwing car.

Mercedes Designers GO HOME !!! All of you !

This is how it should have looked !

[Cooper500]

I get the feeling Mercedes will have put a lot less thought into this car than the 300SL. Doesn't do it for me at all, unlike the original.

As a contemporary design trying to pay homage to a classic, it fails.

[E21_Ross]

alexpa said:

Too heavy (although significantly less than the SL)

this car has nothing in common with the SL i don't think, so what's the relevance of that? and too heavy? oh yes, it weighs over 1000kilos, it MUST be dull to drive.

[Beirut Taxi]

Geez Mercedes build one of the most exciting cars in recent times and people moan

I applaud the way Mercedes has done a modern looking car without trying to make it look identical to the original (bar the Gullwing doors)

Now come on BMW, build something special and lets have a duel!

Edited by Beirut Taxi on Thursday 28th January 13:39

[Belfast Boy]

makes me want my Delorean back!

[JumpinJack]

vintageracer01 said:

alexpa said:

Too heavy (although significantly less than the SL), and for me the front looks like a dog, at least in photos.

Why not this face or similar:

WOW !!!

This is soooooooooo much better than the real one. So much smoother and closer to the original feel & expression of the 300 SL Gullwing car.

Mercedes Designers GO HOME !!! All of you !

This is how it should have looked !

Beat me to it! This is Beeeeautiful Where did you find it/get it from?

[Hammerhead]

I'm sure it'll sound/go great. But.. why does it have to look like a vibrator, just like the SLR before it? 0/10 for styling to my eyes.

[JumpinJack]

Hammerhead said:

I'm sure it'll sound/go great. But.. why does it have to look like a vibrator, just like the SLR before it? 0/10 for styling to my eyes.

please... enlighten us as to how this:

...looks like a vibrator!

[tridave]

JumpinJack said:

Hammerhead said:

I'm sure it'll sound/go great. But.. why does it have to look like a vibrator, just like the SLR before it? 0/10 for styling to my eyes.

please... enlighten us as to how this:

...looks like a vibrator!

Coz he's one big ass-hole and it fits LOL

[ceriw]

JumpinJack said:

Hammerhead said:

I'm sure it'll sound/go great. But.. why does it have to look like a vibrator, just like the SLR before it? 0/10 for styling to my eyes.

please... enlighten us as to how this:

...looks like a vibrator!

well you couldn't look like a cock driving it then?

[dazsmith69]

alexpa said:

Too heavy (although significantly less than the SL), and for me the front looks like a dog, at least in photos.

Why not this face or similar:

because it looks too much like an RX7 with a Merc grill?! still lovely though

[Hammerhead]

tridave said:

Coz he's one big ass-hole and it fits LOL

You certainly wouldn't - or so your mum says.

[Lost soul]

Beirut Taxi said:

alexpa said:

Too heavy

Quite a statement given that you've probably never driven it.

It's easy to say something like for example "They should shave 100KG off" but you get to the point where the cost of saving each KG becomes astronomically expensive.

I would put money on it being as light as they could possibly make it within the budget.

Edited by Beirut Taxi on Thursday 28th January 13:32

Its the normal comment , i wonder why they even bother to post

[R66STU]

omg... i cant belive we have a decent car on here to talk about and someone is to interested in 'your mum' imature comebacks..

anyway, i think this will be a good alternative to a lot of other cars on the market, like the R8...

[Ballistic Banana]

I Think It Looks fantastic and hope it sounds as good with V8 under the hood.



I think what they have managed very well is to keep the older shapes of the original and modernise them..

Like The rounder front lights/one bar across the grill side vents skinny rear lights..

Good luck to em and cant wait to see one in the flesh.

BB