Monday 15th December 2003

SCOOP: New SLK

New roadster captured almost without disguise

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Look what one PHer stumbled across recently...

Alix err... 'Bloggs'.. grabbed these photos recently whilst on his travels. It shows the new SLK almost without disguise. The bonnet is influenced by the styling of F1 cars and seen most dramatically on the enormous McLaren Mercedes SLR. To the rear of that it remains much like the existing model with no radical redesigns.

The car is to be launched shortly and it's believed that the range of engines will start with a puny 163bhp SLK 200 Kompressor ramping up to a 3.2 litre V6 pumping out 350bhp!

[thanuk]

Basically an attractive car but it suffers from an increasingly common issue - the back wheels look smaller than the front ones because of the wedge shape of the body.