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Old Feb 21, 2013 | 03:46 AM
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Said goodbye to my CBS for this beauty. What a car.





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Perfect addition to your already sick stable. Give us your driving impressions !!
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Congrats! Huge upgrade for sure! The only issue is you live where snows all the time!:P Hope spring comes early so you can take it out with the top down. Enjoy!
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Congrats and good health.

Still growing on me..
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I'm interested to hear why you switched and what your thoughts are between the two cars.
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Love the first pic, def a perfect car to drive when snowing :P
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Old Feb 21, 2013 | 09:26 PM
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BTW, here's an iPhone pic of justthebest SL63 with my car, first day he picked up the car:

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BTW, here's an iPhone pic of justthebest SL63 with my car, first day he picked up the car:

Honestly there's zero comparo to the R230 from roof line to tail pipes I'll never warm up to the 2013's
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Congrats and good health.

Still growing on me..
Even w/this widebody kit slammed on it's ballzz it looks like an old Nissan 350z
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Honestly there's zero comparo to the R230 from roof line to tail pipes I'll never warm up to the 2013's
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Perfect addition to your already sick stable. Give us your driving impressions !!
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I'm interested to hear why you switched and what your thoughts are between the two cars.
Thanks - I'll post some up when the weather is good enough to really push the car, but one telling tidbit is that on the test drive (with ~24 miles on the car, so I wasn't too wild), I felt comfortable enough with the grip / dynamics to consider trading my Black Series for this car.

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Congrats! Huge upgrade for sure! The only issue is you live where snows all the time!:P Hope spring comes early so you can take it out with the top down. Enjoy!
Already managed to sneak in a top-down day when the sun was out!

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Honestly there's zero comparo to the R230 from roof line to tail pipes I'll never warm up to the 2013's
This is one car you really HAVE to see in person. The angles / lines are genuinely different than they look in pictures.
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Even w/this widebody kit slammed on it's ballzz it looks like an old Nissan 350z
Your absolutely right, there I was thinking , that looks like a Nissan,
and then I looked down and read your post.
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This is one car you really HAVE to see in person. The angles / lines are genuinely different than they look in pictures.
i agree the 13 sl looks much better in person than pictures
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Very nice ! One of my fav cars there is. Are u going to tune it ? 650whp tune only
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