The SLS AMG

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The first thing anyone wants to talk about, of course, is the doors. Certainly, there is considerable excitement here at the return of the Gullwing Mercedes. And talk about them we will, discussing exactly how practical they are in real use. However, there is so much more to the new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG than its show-stealing doors.
The SLS AMG marks the end of the collaboration between Mercedes and McLaren in road car production. Although, at £157,500, the SLS costs considerably less than the earlier joint-venture SLR, it is unquestionably that model’s replacement.
Unlike the McLaren-built SLR, the SLS has been developed entirely in house. And by ‘in house’, Mercedes actually means the tuning firm AMG, which became an official Mercedes department in 1990. This is the first time that AMG has been given a clean sheet to build a road car from the ground up, and one with the billing that it will be something altogether more serious than the familiar ‘big-engine-and-comfortable-Mercedes’ AMG recipe. The talk this time is of an all-out supercar.