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Detroit: 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL is still the daddy (Autoblog)
Filed under: Detroit Auto Show, Convertible, Performance, Mercedes-Benz,
Design/Style, Luxury
It’s the eve of press days at the Detroit Auto Show, and Mercedes-Benz has
kicked off the week in fine style with the premiere of its 2013 SL. While the
60-year-old franchise has periodically undergone radical revisions, the sixth-
generation should look familiar to anyone who has seen the outgoing model, but
that doesn’t mean that Benz hasn’t tugged and pulled the SL every which way.
While the general form looks very similar to the fifth-generation roadster,
there are subtle tweaks everywhere, the most noticeable being the eagle’s-eye
LED daytime running lamps.
As before, the two-seat roadster relies on a power folding hardtop, though the
folding roof can now be had with Magic Sky Control, the trick bit of
electrochromatic glass with variable opacity first offered on the SLK. The
original SL nomenclature stood for Sport and Lightweight, but in recent years,
the latter descriptor hasn’t really applied to the big coupe. The 2013 model
seeks to reclaim some of that featheriness with a new all-aluminum structure
and body, and Mercedes says the new SL550 weighs about 275 pounds less than
the exiting model.
> A 12-percent bump …
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