[W126 Coupe] SLS Coupe

[Attila]

        No rant . . . totally agreed.  When the accountants (bald

headed bowling ball mustache jerk) took over from the 

engineers, it was all over.  If they really wanted to make

something special, they should have made an exact re-

production of the gullwing/roadster.  Arschloch.   

 

 

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From: mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com [mailto:mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com]
On Behalf Of Dawid Loubser
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 10:55 AM
To: Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists
Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] SLS Coupe

 

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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