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| BeN |
Mercedes SLSFirst official pictures.http://jalopnik.com/5355136/2010-mercedes-sls-amg-first-photos-details 
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| Gurney |
And now there are two Mercedes I like.
This and the CLS. You can put the rest in landfill, dreadfully dreary. |
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| Racing |
Slightly odd-looking from some angles but I like a lot!
Looks much better in silver than that metallic red. |
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| woof woof |
I think it's a bit too fussy, especially at the front. | ||||
| Parm |
For some reason I see a hint of Chrysler Crossfire in the SLS's side at that angle!!! The front end looks oddly proportioned too. | ||||
| PG |
I didn't expect to like it based on spy shots etc, but that does lookm exceptionally cool - in a sort of a Batmobile way . I don't know why, but in red it reminds me of The Crimson Haybaler from Wacky Races
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| Big TC |
I like the front view.
The front 3/4 view in the top post is a bit awkward. Can't agree with Racing on the colour - but then, I simply detest silver on a car now.... |
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| Racing |
I don't usually like silver either but it suits that. | ||||
| Frank Bullitt |
Like the concept, and the drive sounds ace if CAR are to be believed (and why wouldn't they) but the detailing over the finished product is poor. | ||||
| Gurney |
More pics/impressions now on Autocar. My god this things big! still, I can't help but like it. | ||||
| Dr. Hfuhruhurr |
It is big for a two-seater: my only real objection to it. | ||||
| Blarno |
For once, I'm lost for words.
Not astounded by it's beauty, I'm just struggling to find blocky, chunky ugly things to compare it to. |
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| Racing |
It must be a taste thing - a like of blocky things vs pointy things. I love that, whereas I find things like F430s hideous. | ||||
| Blarno |
I find most Ferraris hideous, too. | ||||
| DarthBalls |
I agree with you on the F430 but I'm quite ambivalent about that Merc. It looks like a mash up of a Mk1 Dodge Viper and classic Merc Gullwing 300SL with current Merc styling cues grafted on. It just doesn't do anything for me but I don't hate it either. Sometimes I wonder if some modern cars are actually styled using Photoshop to cut and paste old designs together. |
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| Dr. Hfuhruhurr |
Oh come on, it's nothing like a Dodge Viper, other than the vaguest sense of general proportions. The detailing is in a different class. | ||||
| Dr. Hfuhruhurr |
Some new pictures, from putting the car on display on the roof of the museum:
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| Twelfth Monkey |
It does look better in silver. | ||||
| Nice Guy Eddie |
I still fail to see whats so impressive about someone taking a 300SL and making it uglier. | ||||
| Big TC |
No, no and thrice no! It does, however, look better in mid-air! |
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| DaveGibson |
How about if they'd dropped it? |
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| TimR |
Maybe that's why they had the doors open while craning it up? Would it fly in that configuration? |
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| Big TC |
Only if the crane was moving forward at atleast 55 knots as it was dropped..... |