2013 Mercedes-Benz SL

Between our official sneak look and also the endless leaks, the 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL is formally from the bag before its debut at next month’s Detroit Auto Show. And like its forerunners during the last five decades, the brand new SL is constantly on the offer S-Class luxury and improvements inside a svelte, drop-top package. The “Mercedes-Benz” text engraved in aluminum at the base from the flat-bottom controls is an especially nice touch, however the silver indicators seem more Dodge circa 2005 than 21st-century Benz.

Once we detailed before, the brand new SL is going to be around 300 pounds lighter compared to outgoing version, living as much as its Sports Light moniker by arriving under 4,000 pounds. At launch, the SL550 can come outfitted using the twin-turbocharged and direct-injected 4.6-liter V8, outputting 429 horsepower and 516 pound-ft of torque – a substantial boost within the old model’s 384 hewlett packard and 391 lb-foot. Speed-sensitive, electromechanical steering joins two suspension options: the conventional Agility Control Suspension or even the Active Body Control setup that first showed around the outgoing model.

Finally, two technology come standard around the SL, the formerly featured Miracle Vision Control which combines wartrol mister nozzles in to the wipers, and also the new FrontBass system that mounts two subs within the driver and passenger footwells.