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 »

The Mercedes-Benz SL550, SL63 AMG and SL65 AMG are being recalled for an occupant classification system malfunction. The system may fail to detect a lightweight person sitting in the front passenger seat. As a result, the passenger-side airbag may not deploy when necessary. Approximately 130 cars built from January 16 through April 30, 2013 are […] More »

Winter is knocking on our door. Temperatures are dropping, holiday shoppers are scrambling, and Christmas music is irritating. Winter also means fewer convertibles appearing on the highways and byways of the Northern Hemisphere. To hold you over during convertible-slump season, we’re featuring a Mercedes-Benz SL-Class in this edition of Photos of the Week. These shots […] More »

Get a load of this: Mercedes-Benz tuner HWA AG has decided to take three 300SL Gullwings and make “special editions” out of them. First they rip out the Gullwing’s historically significant, 212-horsepower direct-injected SOHC inline-six, and replace it with a 381-horsepower AMG 6.0L V8. That’s a bit sacrilegious, but forgivable. Then HWA throws on a […] More »

Take a look at this Mercedes-Benz SL-Class rendering. Do you fancy this shooting brake, or is it a broken shot at a good design? WorldCarFans says it could be an interesting competitor to the Ferrari FF. I agree it would be an interesting competitor, albeit an ugly one. Currently there are no production plans for […] More »

Yesterday we ran a story about a super-mean rally SL500. And it got us wondering… what’s the greatest SL that Mercedes ever built? We all remember the legendary mid ’50s Gullwing and of course the ‘Pagoda’ SL. But what about more recent SLs like the McLaren collab SLR? Or perhaps an AMG tuned Black Series? […] More »