[W126 Coupe] SLS Coupe

[wjs]

A little too much bile overall, Dave, but I'm with you.
Jack
1987 SEC


On Oct 30, 2009, at 10:54 AM, Dawid Loubser wrote:


> 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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