Mercedes-Benz has a long, proud motorsports, producing the most incredible. racing machines and desirable sports cars in history. So it's gratifying to see that the automaker is now produced a compact roadster, which is the worthy heir of heritage.
Mercedes-Benz cars to wear their national colors, the tradition of master of sports car racing (Mercedes cars for Mercedes that the nickname "Silver Arrows", does that mean for Germany, the silver hue).
But the compact SLK roadster? old always something of a pretender to the title. If the 1998 SLK was a silver arrow, it was one of the children's toy bow and arrow set.
The new SLK is something else. It's bold, muscular style that is visibly influenced by line icing SLS sports car. He succeeds in showing the car and think, Bitchy message that, well, I wanted to SLS, but SLK was all he could afford.
Mercedes ' AMG the performance of the branch to fine tune some very fast SLKs in the past and the second generation SLK wore the style, whose goal was to emulate Mercedes lightning fast formula 1 racers, but these efforts somehow fell.
No SLK AMG version, not seriously, as a sports car. Indeed, the majority of the SLK is viewed as a woman from the car. It was probably partly due to the styling down first car. But it would also have been an indirect result of technical innovation, the SLK folding convertible roof of the picture.
Others had such roofs, mainly Mitsubishi 3000GT. But his SLK was the first sales success, which was apparently driven by a sense of security, which provided a solid roof.
Now, however, and affordable Mazda Miata offers folding picture convertible to allay these fears and urban residents, and anyone else who is reluctant to park a car on the street at the top of the canvas.
So why spend $ 68,000 to the compact Roadster from Mercedes-Benz when Mazda Miata quite precisely to the terms of the appearance, the capabilities and specifications for one-third of the price? For the same reasons you could buy a medium sedan Mercedes class E rather than the Honda Accord--improvement and pedigree.
Consider the SLK Magic Sky check roof. It is a glass sunroof in the rigid convertible top whose cover is adjustable. Press the button and the glass is clear, light, air cockpit with the roof up. But in the scorching sun for more pressing tints the glass block 95 percent of the sunlight.
In the cabin is wrapped in leather and wood, absolutely everywhere, all the men and ended, in contrast to some of the oldest furniture budget SLKs.
Contributes to the SLK poor reputation was his awkward handling. It deprived the SLK driver car reputation as competitors such as the Porsche Boxster. Even in the case that men control the same way as women, they think they must be able to win the race on time, and they knew that wasn't up to playing SLK Bullitt in the streets of San Francisco (or Mustang and charger, which implements the scene cult film, but that is really in the mythology in the age).
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In 318 curves in the tail, I found that the SLK in particular, consist of one stroke to the next. Brake pedal provided a similar confidence-inspiring atmosphere, allowing the driver to stomp on the brakes hard and then taper smoothly while bending to the deceleration curve of the nothing. There are features of the previous models, so they are welcome additions.
SLK350 standard seven transmissions, however, is confusing, as expected, if the car is decisively. Transmission, as virtually all of the machines, downshifting is prone to too many devices, and at the wrong time, extends into the driver's intention.
The current Mercedes SLK customers will never know, but if a company is serious about incursions into the Porsche and BMW in the territory of the customer, then allow the driver full control over the transmission.
The real problem is that Mercedes provides three shift modes for SLK: comfort, sport and something interesting is marked "manual", which automatically changes gears in most cases, in spite of its name. If the company is "manual" mode on their transfer and attach electrodes to offset car mounted, it is necessary to move only in the event that it said to do so.
Fortunately, the basic SLK250 – which will be powered by engines or turbocharged 1.8 litre four-cylinder engine, at the premiere in – will be offered with the actual drive manual transmission in addition to the Optional automatic 7 speed.
About Mercedes manual changer reflect the negligence of the company in the proletarian device, so you can only hope that the implementation of the manual transmission Shifter will be better than in manual mode automatic transmission.
SLK250 will have the advantage of a four-cylinder exhaust note. The sound of V12 never compete, but this may sound pretty athletic compared sometimes penance-sounding V6 in SLK350.
If SLK250 with the gearbox with a manual gearbox can deliver full sport driving experience as thoroughly as SLK350 offers a luxury cabriolet experience, these latest silver arrows will pierce the target target.
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