Saturday 26 September 2009

Mercedes SL$


It's not the oil, or hydrogen, nor steam. The most opulent automobiles are money-powered.
With retro cars, you ave always the same problem — how to write brilliantly about something, that was fully described dozens eons ago? When the point of a car is to honour the old one, the old one is the only important. You can test drive a Ford GT from 2003, you can even make a photo. But the truth is, there's no real car on it. It's only a shadow — of old GT40 from 1966 LeMans, of raw 60s design
— and nowadays greed.

With the new 2010 SLS model, Mercedes-Benz took this paradigm
to the highest level ever, copying not only their evergreen SL Gullwing racer, but the modern Merecdes sportscar, too.
As the high-tech should stay, as well as safety and ride quality, it's no racer and no 60s-style. And when the SLR engineering was ready and still fresh, the wise accountants had to do only one thing. And they did it.

As a matter of a fact, the new SLS is only an old-and-sold SLR.
It is clear to see, that with the slightly new (and retro) design they will sell the same car twice.

They say, that cars are not meanings of transport — that there's some spirit of freedom and enterprise in it. Yeah. We have an strict conclusion now — a car that is only a name and a price-tag, both equally impressive, but idle.

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