Discussion
Andrew Richmond said:
Looks excellent in red and with those wheels.
Popped into my local dealer today and they had one sat there for sale at £148k. How common are they as I presumed that they would be special order only?
Yeah, that must be a cancelled order! The dealer probably took too much of a liberty with the part exchange insult and p*ssed off the customer (it nearly happened to me!)
Mine is the 5th in the country allegedly (and the only red one so far).
Where is the dealer in question?
Andrew Richmond said:
John Weir, Dundee.
It was the predictable Silver and had wood trim like yours - can you get the AMG silver inserts instead? Mind you I find that these look very cheap compared with the metal finish on my S4. On my SL500, I had black wood which looked very nice against the black(ish) leather.
What's it like in the wet? The car that is not the wood!
The interior trim was a point of much discussion, as the 65 can only be ordered with a choice of two wood finishes (not the carbon fibre of the New York show car, grrrrr), or the disgusting designo crud. I think the SL55 plastic metal thing was pretty nasty, but better than wood.
Having taken delivery of the car, the wood is actually quite nice.
.........I'll leave quietly!
The car runs on Bridgestone RE050A tyres and is very well behaved in the wet.
slinky said:
Looks cracking Mr Gixer sir...
But if I may be so bold as to levy one minor criticism.. The ride height..
I may be completely wrong here, but in the side profile shots, it looks like it sits a little too high...
With all of the adjustability that the car provides, does it allow for adjustable ride height?
slinky
I agree. The SL55 used to sit a bit like that too (but it was black so didn't show up as much). The ABC is working and the air suspension is set to its lowest position. I reckon the struts need to wear in or something. DMS can reprogramme the ABC to make it sit lower, but I think I'll keep it stock....
Might get rid of that pesky limiter though....
xspencex said:
You don't see many Red SL mercedes and after seeing you car I really don't understand why...It looks fantastic!!
Thanks. I like the colour!
Managed to get the speedo reading 205 mph and it was still pulling...
Same day at brunters (Vmax) it went through the mile and quarter timing lights at 187mph (and amazingly the speedo read exactly the same)
Rob at DMS, you are a genius....
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