AMG Powerrr

I've got a official picture of the SLS AMG (copyrights Autowereld.com) and a picture of a SLS convertible.

Blk04cobra1

Definitely looks like they are trying the throwback/retro look, just not sure it's fitting on this car for me. IMO it looks like a cross between a Z8 and a SLR. Not really digging the front end.

mf1

Its ugly, headlights have to be on same level as the grille, and they should be oval instead, if they want the retro-look ! Just my 2€ !

AMG Powerrr

well, I think, when we see it in real life, people gets enthusiastic. I like it!

150shot

Its cool but really hope its not the true SL replacement.

AMG Powerrr

@150shot,

It suppose to be the replacement from the SLR McLaren.

Thericker

If it looks anything like this shot? It's Officially ugly, front end is utter failure Too retro, as others stated looks like a basturd SLR gone awry

AMG Powerrr

@Thericker,

you have right to say that! With your lovely SL! I think you don't have to compare it with the original 300SL. See it like the Mini Cooper or the Fiat Nuova 500. It's a modern car with some style points of the 300SL, but not a copy of it. (the license plate on the front makes it also not pretty to see)

Geo3

Don't like it!

Sunir

Can't say I really like it either...MB seemed to knock one outta the park w/ the R230 '03 - '08; after that ...

I love the original 300SL Gullwing; that is IMO the best looking MB ever! This one tries to pull cues from it but it's not getting it done; Ford did a better job replicating a modern version of the venerable gt40 I think...

shaw01

This was the concept, beautiful .. they've taken a great idea and hit it with an ugly stick a few times!

Sunir

That red car (concept) now that looks nice....and you we're being nice by saying only a few hits with the ugly stick...no, they've severly beaten it with an ugly stick several of them taking turns until it was bludgeoned to within inches of it's life, then they beat it like the 'printer scene' in Office Space after which they had left it on the side of the road bloody and battered like Rodney King

what are they thinking? who got paid for turning that red car into the white one? hmmm was BMW outsourced to do final rendering

SL65BSNY

Not nice at all.

Rick SL55

very UglY!!!

AMG 17GT

Yeah, the grill is too retro and the lights too progressive.

Like the concept better.

Geo3

The red concept car is rather beautiful.

Is there a chance they may drop the "gull-wing" idea for production?

The "gull-wing" is a problem for normal driving :

1) more side and upper clearance required in home garage (single garage impossible and double tricky)
2) some urban office/parking/lots/garages may prove tricky (can't be too near adjacent vehicle and some concrete support beam may be above or beside the parked car)
3) much more care is required in normal street parking (may be too close to a pillar or concrete planter, for instance)
4) design will not permit either a sunroof nor a retractable hardtop (previously, with the 50s design, an open car was achieved only by making it a convertible without "gull-wings")

I would be most interested in the red car design with conventional doors, and a sunroof or retractable hardtop.

MB_hunter

Presentation matters a lot. I believe in MB's hard work for half decade!

AMG Powerrr

@shaw01,

your picture is just a car made on the PC (I don't know how you call that) from what people hope it will be the SLS. Not a concept. (Do you see the W211 headlights on your car?)

@MB Hunter,

that's exactly what I think.

shaw01

Couldn't tell you where it was "made" and don't much care, just gorgeous in the concept and (if the white version is real) ugly in execution. I can't say for certain if this was from MB as a concept, but wouldn't a concept start with renderings?

You see 211 headlights, they could be porsche just as well, but who really cares if it looks that good? I find it funny that so many people compare and say this car is ripping off that car .. by this point in automobile development you'd be hard pressed to produce a headlight that has not existed before.

And agian, who cares? It's ths sum of the parts .. and that white one is something awful.

BTW, got the picture from this site .. don't remember where but it was a post over a year ago about this concept, so I know I didn't make it .. though frankly I wish I had because that would sell.

shaw01

Isnt' there also the issue that with "normal" doors the wind creates a more solid seal at speed, but this door would not use the flow the same way? (similar to reverse opening doors that actually work against the wind)

I know this was an issue many years ago so it's probably not now .. in the end, if it looks like the red one I'd buy it no matter how the doors opened .. and they could turn into real wings and make the car fly but I still wouldn't buy that fugly white thing.

AMG Powerrr

@shaw01,

you can find the pic of your SLS on google. I can't tell where it's made, but I know it is'nt a official Mercedes Concept Car (because they have call it "Vision SLS"). I agree, the concept is gorgeous. But it is'nt the official SLS... Well, with the headlights, it doesn't matter actually... but look to a 211 headlight, and from the red concept, and you will notice they look much on each other.

And with the white one. I see that many of you guys don't like the car. But I am curious about, when the car is for sale, how many SLS AMG's there would be sold. Also to you guys. I think that there are many people who trade their SL, or even a SLR, in for a SLS.

AMG Powerrr

here I have some other Wannabe-SLS AMG's. All of the same type of car, like the red one. Only the last car (also a PC preview) is made by a German carsite, that knows most of times, right before they unveil the official pictures from the manufacturor. That car looks the most on the official SLS. Look at this.

AMG Powerrr

I've got some pictures found of the SLS AMG, with minor camouflage, testing around the Green Hell (nickname of the Nurburgring Nordschleife).

Here they are. Copyrights Spyshots.nl

Sunir

I like some of those concept renderings...the red one there looks to have a CL type front end

shaw01

Yeah, I'd still take the red one over all of these .. and I don't think it's a total fabrication out of someone's ars .. there are definite and clear similarites to the version actually being made.

It reminds me of the concept drawings of the origional Viper .. it was hot as hell .. turned out to be pretty cool still, but not nearly as hot as the concept.

Red one would be a huge hit. White one, not so much.