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The new Mercedes Benz SL will be officially unveiled at the upcoming Detroit Motor Show in January 2012 wearing a Constructed entirely of aluminum bodywork that allows you to download up to 140 kg depending on the version compared to its predecessor which means an improvement in their performance, agility and efficiency .

The 2012 Mercedes Benz SL will come with two settings of suspension, using the control system agility and suspension from active regulation system Active Body Control damping (ABC). It will also include start & stop system, and automatic gearbox 7G-tronic. Among the engines the new Mercedes Benz SL 350 will be equipped with a 3.5 L 302 hp V6 that disburses to 730 Nm peak torque with an average consumption of 6.8 L/100km saving 30% over the previous model. The following power unit that powers the SL 500 is a 4.7 L V8, 429 hp and 699 Nm of torque, up 32% from the previous model and 12% more powerful. Read the rest of this entry »

When Karl Benz patented 125 years ago his invention, perhaps never imagined that everything would become what it is today … or possibly yes. The truth is that much time has passed and much water has flowed under the bridge and Mercedes Benz is now what is, in part thanks to the strength and vision of people like his creator. Not every day a company can celebrate 125 years of patenting that almost certainly has been the undisputed landmark in the history of the cars.
The German firm held by this time that great birthday and do something very special and very particular way. Just presented in a sculpture society to which they have named Mercedes Benz Aesthetics 125 which is in fact much more than it appears.

We can not consider the Mercedes Benz 125 Aesthetics as a concept car, in fact it is not. Nor can we come to regard as simply a bare chassis, and that neither is. In the best way that we can include the sculpture of the German is saying that it is actually carried a sketch materialized reality and corporately. But the Mercedes Benz 125 Aesthetics is more than a simple sketch embodied, is actually responsible for rendering all and sundry how will the cars of the three-pointed star in the future that lies ahead. Hence the unusual and unexpected importance …

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Finishing Details

The AMG Mercedes-Benz SLS is of exquisite quality, except for small details in the trunk. Unlike usual in most cars, the SLS interior has many metal coatings instead of plastic with imitation metal. Has finished the best luxury sedans, without the appearance of some of them charged with a more sporty but with fewer buttons to manipulate. Optionally some parts can be coated carbon fiber (image), which gives it a certain aspect of racing car, but it reduces the elegance.

As a tribute to the Mercedes-Benz models in the 60 and 70, the outputs of the HVAC system are round (of metal) and carry the air flow regulators in a cross (picture).

The steering wheel is flat on the bottom and has cams for raising and lowering gear. It also has several buttons from which you can handle the sound system, browser and phone. The pedals are metal with rubber inserts.

AMG Mercedes-Benz SLS. Dashboard 2010.The model has two major areas of silver with red needles. The speedometer is graduated to 360 km / h, although the car has a top speed electronically limited to 317 km / h. Between these areas lies a row of seven LEDs (image) that indicates the optimum time to shift gears, using the manual shift mode.

The implementation of SLS gives much information on other rare cars, gives the temperature of engine oil grade to grade from the engine is started cold (very rare) and oil the gears. To access this information must go to a special menu (“AMG”) of the display of the instrumentation.

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Based in turn on the preparation of the Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG, the German manufacturer has submitted the 358 Concept Salon occasion of Australia (in Sydney), a striking orange color called “Pearl Orange”.

The model presents an extreme preparation, characterized by the AMG Performance Package Plus kit, bringing the power of its V8 to 6.3 liters of displacement, from 457 hp to nothing less, 487 hp. This is also reflected in an increase in torque, which is now 600 Nm.

Top speed (electronically limited) is in the 250 km / h, with acceleration from 0 to 100 in 4.4 seconds. Multilink Susllantasson 19 inches. The most curious, however, is that, despite its striking color, the other components are nothing too “loud”, having a rear spoiler, a diffuser, and redesigned their bumpers as reworked elements, the rest if not for the painting, it could go almost totally unnoticed.

If anyone asks the price of this unit, when there is nothing official, but to give an idea I can say that the C63 AMG kit costs about € 85,724. We can begin to do math.