Filed under: Convertibles, Coupes, Sports/GTs, Geneva Motor Show, Mercedes-Benz
Geneva 2008: Mercedes SL63 is white hot
by Jonathon Ramsey on Mar 4th 2008 at 8:05AM 
Click the image above for more hi-res shots of the SL63
Two doors, no top, red leather interior, ceramic brakes, and 538 horses is a combination you once expected to be named for an Italian city or racing personage. No more. And while the alpha-numeric SL63 might not be all that Germanic in itself, it gets no more Teutonic than the hyphenated moniker "Mercedes-Benz" that precedes it. Now that Merc is making cars as fast as those of its Latin neighbor, perhaps the SL63 -- being a tad more comfortable -- is the car you drive to go check on the progress of your bespoke Italian supercar. Check out the hi-res gallery of the Bahn-burningest droptop.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
geo.stewart 8:34AM (3/04/2008)
BTW guys,
great coverage. thx
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Johnny 8:51AM (3/04/2008)
Whoa very very very mean!!! I wouldn't want to be the ELX that ends up in the way of this thing
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Johnny 8:52AM (3/04/2008)
ELX-XLR, sorry guys
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Jo. A. Borras 8:52AM (3/04/2008)
Is it me, or are those wheels VERY similar to what's on the 997 Turbos??
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Gooch 1:38PM (3/04/2008)
+1
hydrogenvodka 2:49AM (3/21/2008)
Its in fashion today to have 5-spoke wheels on cars, there are many similar wheels, but yeah this ones are extremely similar...
Shakatar 9:08AM (3/04/2008)
What the...? Is Daimler's stand lit by candles? I can hardly see the car.
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Myk 1:21PM (3/04/2008)
Porsche called. They want their rims back.
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Gooch 1:39PM (3/04/2008)
LOL! AMG appears to be moving away from the monobloc style. It's still five spokes, albeit split. But dang, it looks just like the Porsche rims, at a quick glance.
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N 4:40PM (3/04/2008)
That is one ugly mercedes... did the designers go completely blind, or did someone vomit on the art pad?
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