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Roger Federer has won several championships including 17 Grand Slam singles titles and 6 ATP World Tour Finals. Just like Boris Becker, the Swiss tennis superstar is into Mercedes-Benz cars. He owns an SLS AMG Roadster and he expressed how he felt about it. Federer said, “This is seriously a cool car… This is really one of my favorite all-time cars. I love it.”
Quick Stats: Rudolf Schenker, guitarist, Scorpions
Daily Driver: 2014 SLS AMG GT (Rudolf’s rating: 10 plus on a scale of 1 to 10)
Although Schenker’s bandmate Klaus Meine, a fellow Celebrity Drive interviewee, also has an SLS, Schenker bought his first. But as is true within the band that’s been able to perform in harmony for 50 years, there was no competition.
“That’s what I did, and that’s a great thing because this car is now already $30,000 over the new price. In this case he was the right adviser because he knows what’s happening.”
Schenker has the 2014 SLS AMG GT convertible for cruising around when he has the time. “When I want to drive sporty, I have the SLS Mercedes AMG GT,” he says. “I like this car. If it can open the roof and cruise also—that’s the great thing about this car, and the other one with the special door, it’s very tight inside. It looks good from the outside, but a little bit uncomfortable. Especially when you have fun weather, you can open the roof.”
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Robert Herjavec is a self-made millionaire and the nice judge on CBC's Dragons' Den and ABC's Shark Tank.
In addition to handing out cash to budding entrepreneurs, he also splurges on cars. He just added two more to his collection: a 2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG and a 2011 Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead coupe.
Queue jumpers, lane blockers, gas pump dawdlers, parking lot prima donnas and stop-sign Samaritans: it's enough to make you road weary
Why did you buy an SLS AMG?
I'm the first person to buy it in Canada. I've had one on order for four years and then I saw the first photos of it and I cancelled my order. It doesn't look as good in photos.
The guys at Mercedes told me they cancelled, but they didn't because they knew I would love it when I saw it. They did an amazing job. It's one of the few cars you have to see in real life.
When I ordered the SLS, I asked Mercedes to build one in matte black because that is so cool.
The guys in Canada said yes because we know I'm a big celebrity. And then the request made it all the way to Germany and they said, who? That is why I have a red one and not matte black.
It's so beautiful. I feel like a 15-year-old boy staring at the gorgeous cheerleader and then she says yes to me to go on a date and you're afraid. I walk into my garage everyday and I look at it. It's so beautiful I don't want to drive it. I'm afraid to drive it because I'm afraid someone is going to hurt it.
What does the SLS say about you?
I appreciate fine cars.
I don't think it's a showy car. I don't think the average person looks at the SLS and says that's a $250,000 car.
I think it says that I really love cars.
But it has more than 500 horsepower - do you really need that much? You can't appreciate it in Canada. What's the point of buying one?
I love the car. Are we going to go through a phase where the high horsepower is going to go away - are the super-fast cars going to become like cigarettes in 20 years? Where kids, my daughter's generation, would look back and go, why would you have a car with 700 horsepower?
I hope we don't get there because it's not about driving fast all the time. It's about experiencing the overall essence of the car.
Ok I was waiting for somebody to call me out on this but it's not Kourtney's car!
Kourtney Kardashian
It belongs to another non-celebrity...
Like come on now, WHO is going to call you out on that? Who knows this let alone cares about it? I guess I need to have a subscription to "celebrity paparazzi losers" magazine to get it? I guess I need to find better threads to browse at 3AM when I can't sleep.
Originally Posted by Sandy Eggo
The funny part is I never heard of a C450 AMG. Do those come with a year supply of feminine products?
No, but I could have used some to mop up the puddle your girlfriend left in my front seat when she rode in it last
07-09-2015, 12:51 AM
