Category: SL

I’ve watched a lot of these DragTimes racing videos and this one is the closest race that I’ve seen. Easily. A mile is a long ways to race, but they’re neck an neck the whole way though. Unlike most of these races, the cars here are stock, so this is a solid straight-line speed comparison […] More »

It’s safe to say the upcoming S63 AMG Coupe is already a motivator. I can just hear people hustling to put in their orders for it at dealerships around the world. Its roadster sibling, the SL63, will be exercising so that it tops its corporate sibling’s output by creating 585 horsepower and 664 pound-feet of torque for the 2015 model year.

Mercedes-Benz and Aston Martin have been getting pretty comfortable recently. First there was news that AMG would lend their engines to Aston Martin. That’s unusual, but not unheard of. AMG is pretty spectacular at what they do, so I don’t think anyone is worrying about Aston Martin’s performance capabilities… Well, at least not yet. This […] More »

If a major manufacturer modernized their own classic car, does that really count as a restomod? Or is that just a new version of the old car? Whatever you want to call it, Mercedes did it to eleven 300 SLs. They’re the only gullwings in the world with modern components put together by AMG, which […] More »

Whenever I watch television from the 1980s, I almost always end up saying, “Ugh … the clothing from back then looks awful!”  (I’m talking about you, “Golden Girls”!)  Couple loud colors and big shoulder pads with puffy, teased hairstyles, and the Reagan era comes across as an optical atrocity.  Some of the cars of the […] More »

Let me just get this out the way first: I’m hopelessly, unconditionally in love with the SL65 AMG Black Series. The car could’ve killed my whole family and all I would be able to do is wag my finger and say “oh you rascal, you!” It’s not rational. I know this, but I can’t help […] More »

Owner says, “It gets driven often. It’s driven hard.” When the owner of this Mercedes-Benz 300SL was 10 years old, he assembled a plastic model of a Gullwing Benz and said to himself, “Someday I’m going to have one of these things.” Thirty years later, his dreams became a reality, and the folks at eGarage have […] More »