SPIED: Mecedes' Next Gen SL Steps Out Wearing A LOT Of Armor

This heavily cladded test car affords one of our first glimpses of the new 2012 Mercedes-Benz SL. The next-gen roadster remains a coupé-cabriolet near the top of the Merc range, despite being deposed by the flash new SLS AMG sports car.

Codenamed R231, the new SL has in fact been co-developed alongside the new Gullwing. That means the two share many under-the-skin hardware including the aluminium spaceframe technology, which is exceptionally rigid – as well as promising to make the new SL lighter than today's heavyweight model which spans from 1.8 tonnes to comfortably over 2000kg.

What else is new on the new 2012 Merc SL?

Details remain quite scarce at present...


2011 Toyota Sienna Photo Gallery

2009 LA Auto Show Photo Gallery

2011 BMW 5-Series Photo Gallery

2010 Lexus GX460 and 470 Photo Gallery

2010 BMW 7-Series M-Sport Photo Gallery

AutoSpies.com Photo Galleries

If you want to see your photos running on our homepage photo ticker, be sure to upload your photos on the go by sending them to Mobile@AutoSpies.com

Share on Facebook
 

Lexus is the official sponsor of the 2009 AutoSpies.com LA Auto Show Photo Gallery

There are photos and then there are AutoSpies.com photos!

AutoSpies.com is ranked number one on Google search for auto shows


Read Article

theoptimisticpessimist - 12/10/2009 2:40:52 PM

+4 Boost

Are they making another Mad Max movie?

MSP6 - 12/10/2009 3:09:28 PM

+3 Boost

I guess they where not out testing aerodynamics or wind noises

Joe_Limon - 12/10/2009 3:32:03 PM

+3 Boost

I can hear them now. "Quick, it's not camouflaged enough!... what should we do?... I dunno drill some holes in it for pete sakes"

Steve - 12/10/2009 3:50:32 PM

+2 Boost

Why do we bother packaging this stuff as "news"? MB has a new SL, but we don't know anything about it, not even how it looks. The tension mounts... huh? Oh! That's the sound of crickets, not tension.

Agent00R - 12/10/2009 6:34:23 PM

+1 Boost

The fifth generation launched in 2003, nearly a decade ago.

Yonder7 - 12/10/2009 10:42:26 PM

+1 Boost

Oh this is sad...this people belive that the next SL should look like the SLS.....horrible design.