Archive for the ‘SL Class’ Category

Sales of Luxury watches are down. Sales of luxury everything is down, including cars. But this past winter Mercedes bravely brought to market a blurring of both when it promised to sell 200 (worldwide; 63 in the U.S.) SL63 AMG IWC Edition cars. Here I’ll first dissect the name, then discuss its particular joys (of which, I promise you, there many).

The SL63, as the name implies, gets a 518-hp, 6.3-liter V-8, an engine developed from the ground up for AMG. According to the kids from Affalterbach, Germany (where AMGs are birthed), there’s not a single part of the motor in common with the more “plebeian” V-8s in the rest of the Benz fleet.

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If only -- Rumor has it that there's a new iteration of the legendary Mercedes 300SL Gullwing in the works. (Which is nice since the original ended production in 1957.) If produced, lucky buyers will be treated to a snazzy 370hp V8 engine, plus many of the design elements from the original--including the gullwing doors, of course. Please, Santa. Please? [WorldCarFans]

Fantasyland -- Audi recently backed a contest at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, asking students to design cars of the future. The results are fairly awesome, though we're not sure all of them will fit through the Taco Bell drive-through of the future. [AutoMotto]

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