Well, it's very good, but not great enough to beat the best. So it's quick as hell, you might be thinking. That’s true of a lot of powerful cars, however - and requires an added level of care when driving.
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In all honesty, it felt a bit more comfortable in its own skin with the ESP in Sport mode. (Sadly, there's no Drift Mode as in the E when I asked a Mercedes product planner about it, he said it didn't fit the character of the SL.) Even so, all that power means the car's computers have to constantly work to determine how much juice should reach the wheels this is a car with a lot of power and a lot of gears, so it’s always trying to control all that power, especially at lower speeds. Even using launch control, the SL63 doesn't necessarily feel explosive - it definitely still feels like a car possessing a decent amount of mass - but once it starts to rip it just goes and goes.Īs in the likes of the E63 S, having the V8's power coupled to an AWD system means you can make more use of it. The surge of power that comes on anywhere from half-throttle to the floorboard is intoxicating - especially with the top down and the wind picking up speed at seemingly exponentially. Toe into the gas, and it snarls, rips and goes - not too boisterously, just effortlessly and endlessly. AMG may be starting to go electric, but they haven't given up on the V8 yet, and the twin-turbo 4.0-liter unit in the SL-Class is a spectacular example of the breed. The power, not surprisingly, is delightful. (By the standards of the day, of course comparing a sports car from 1957 with one brand-new for 2022 is like comparing submarines from World War I and the Cold War.) Granted, it's not a raw, hard-edged race car for the street it's not even as but a fun, fast open-top sports car. If you like to drive, well, this new SL is the best version since the first one. How does this change in attitude bear out in the real world? I hopped into a 2022 Mercedes-AMG SL63 for a long day of driving and riding through Southern California to find out. That aligns nicely with all the other shifts Mercedes made with the new model - alterations in the SL-Class's philosophy designed to make it more appealing to people who buy convertibles for driving fun as much as to be seen in them. The all-new model, code-named R232, is bigger than the past version, but its tight proportions make it look smaller than it is - and, more importantly, make it look faster. So here in 2022, Mercedes is giving the SL-Class a chance to reclaim past glories - or at least recoup some of its sports car bona fides. The 300 SL Gullwing was a dynamo of a sports car for its era, but it was the version that would follow in 1957 that would be the true progenitor of the SL breed: a fine-looking convertible with a big Three-Pointed Star on the front. While it spent the last few decades as a boulevardier with a reputation for being a ride of choice for yuppies and Real Housewives, when it launched in 1954, it did so as the street-legal version of a race car - one that had just claimed victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Nurburgring. Believe it or not, the Mercedes-Benz SL-Class used to be something of a beast.
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