[W126 Coupe] SLS Coupe

[Dawid Loubser]

Oh please, *another* retro product? And the proportions look all wrong  
to me, but that's just personal taste.
I wonder if we live in a time which will be looked back upon with  
pity, as the auto makers ran out of ideas
to innovate with style, instead insisting to keep on re-hashing old  
ideas, and selling them for ludicrous
amounts of money, not on merit, but because of the "spirits of old"  
which are evoked by the new cars,
which are not at all the same thing.

The 1954 300SL Gullwing had a sound technical reason for the gullwing  
doors, in fact, they were a humongous
compromise enforced upon the styling department by the engineering  
department, who had to make the best
of the situation.

It makes me so mad when styling fakery are employed to make a car  
resemble something it's not. Another prime
example is the current MINI Cooper S, with the very prominent fake air  
intake on the bonnet leading to nowhere (not
even just channeling extra air to the engine - I mean, they may as  
well have left a "hole") just because they switched
over from the supercharger the previous generation used, to a  
turbocharger. It's sad to see that Mercedes benz is also
now (and have been, for a while) in the fake styling business, with  
fake plastic air intakes etc. to make a design look
"aggressive" or "balanced".

No sir, I am 100x more excited by my 1990 560SEC, which was actually  
forward-looking and original, than by the prospect
of a "new" SLS coupe 300SL rip-off, with ridiculous fake gullwing doors.

Sorry for the rant... had to get it out of my system :-)


On 28 Oct 2009, at 6:32 PM, Flodur2 at aol.com wrote:


> If the coupe is here, can the roadster be far behind? I had a hard  

> time getting into the old 300 SL coupe and my at-the-time girlfriend  

> an even harder time. A roadster with a retracting hard top (NOT a  

> one-piece removable top) would be a considered by me whereas the  

> coupe version would not.

>

> Rudy Boentgen

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