Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG

The reason I'm talking about this car is the fact, that I have seen this car in real life, when I was travelling in Finland some years ago. It was fabolous, but not my favorite, still worth mentioning though. It's a front-engine, 2-seat luxury rear-wheel drive grand tourer as the first Mercedes-Benz automobile designed in-house by AMG. SLS stands for Sport, Light, Super. The SLS AMG was designed to be a modern 300SL Gullwing revival. In case of an accident - roll-over, the doors can be fully detached to allow the occupants to leave the vehicle. The SLS AMG has been said to be one of the cheapest cars on the market with an unusual door design. There are many different versions and upgrades of SLS, but I will mainly concentrate on 4 of them: Coupe, Roadster, GT and Electric Drive. The Coupe has a 6.3 litre V8 engine, which produces peak output of 571HP(420kw) at 6800 rpm and with peak torque of 650NM at 4750 rpm. It accelerates from 0 to 100km/h in 3.8 seconds and can go up to 317km/h(electronically limited). The SLS Coupe consumes 13.5 litres of petrol per 100km. It's price starts from 200 000 euros, which seems pretty much, but for that you get a fast car with nice interior - I'm talking about massage seats and stuff like that.
The Roadster, which loses it's trademark doors and roof, converting into a ragtop roadster with conventional doors. It's actually the same as a Coupe but without the roof, but this time it costs about 210 500 euros.
The SLS GT, which comes both as a coupe and as a cabriolet, includes increased engine power to 583HP(435kw) at 6800 rpm and 650NM of torque at 4750 rpm. As both, the cabriolet and coupe are with the same specifications, I will be talking about the GT singularly. It takes it 3.6 seconds to reach 100km/h and can go up to 317km/h(electronically limited). It features a 7-speed AMG Speedshift DCT. The average fuel consumption is 17.7 litres per 100km. It costs about the same as the ordinary versions. The following pictures are all the property of Juergen Zoellter, Brian Farmer, Austin Lindberg