Mercedes SL 500
The aluminum body is lighter than the past steel body by as much as 110 kilograms. Also simultaneously, the new SL has expanded: the wheelbase has expanded by 15 mm, the length of the body – by 50 mm and the width of the SL has expanded by 57 mm. A great deal of wonderful “easily overlooked details” have additionally showed up: on the SL you can arrange the Bang and Olufsen sound framework, the Magic sky control glass rooftop that changes the power of light transmission, different electronic traffic signal colleagues – frameworks for keeping the vehicle inside the checking paths, observing vulnerable sides, a functioning leaving orderly … And this is additional pounds, which the light body is intended to kill. Lightweight and costly?
Indeed, the expense of creating an aluminum body is about two times just that high of a steel body, the Germans affirm. – But in the expense of a vehicle, the body represents somewhere around 15% of the expenses. What’s more the most costly thing is the motor and seats.
The seats are truly extraordinary – multi-shape, with ventilation, dynamic parallel help and a massager, upholstered in costly calfskin. Once changed, they “fit” like a custom-made suit.
Furthermore apparently SL, for my taste, has become substantially more amicable than the past one. Power and animosity are joined with flawless pliancy, the underlying foundations of which are in the exemplary 300SL cars of the fifties. Furthermore the inside of the new “esel” is drawn in view of the Mercedes-Benz SLS sports roadster. The area of the instruments, the buttons on the mid control area, the environment control unit – and, above all, the four “turbines” of the air vents. Their straightforward yet amazing shapes are entrancing. What’s more that it is so lovely to utilize them, how easily and tenderly each of these “turbines” turns, changing the level of opening of the spout from 0 to 100%!
What’s more how plainly and quietly the electro-water powered rooftop drive works: 20 seconds for a roadster, 20 seconds for a convertible. Also despite the fact that it’s just 17 degrees outside, it’s not cold by any stretch of the imagination in an open Mercedes. Regardless, at speeds up to 80 km/h. A windscreen protects against superfluous choppiness toward the rear of the head – it is currently raised electrically, and not physically, as in the past.
Curiously, rather than a naturally rising security circular segment, which here and there terrified the proprietors of past “esels” with bogus up-sides during dynamic driving, two person “sections” are presently offered, concealed under the plastic packaging. As per Mercedes experts in uninvolved security, bogus up-sides are presently avoided – the triggers of spring-stacked curves are set off just while getting signals from “shock” sensors, that is, just in case of a genuine mishap.
Also the unenlightened can take the chrome edge of the breeze screen as a security curve, which is as yet not ready to totally ensure against drafts in the lodge: after 100 km/h you feel a chill. Notwithstanding, it merits turning on the “scarf” (the framework is called so – Airscarf, “air scarf”) – and warm air will emerge from the redirector at the lower part of the headrest.
Thus, if you were to get some information about the most clear impression of this vehicle, I will make do with single word – “solace”. Agreeable inside, faultless ride. The seven-speed “programmed” 7G-Tronic Plus goes through the pinion wheels so delicately that their change can in some cases be seen exclusively by the leaps of the tachometer needle. In any event, while beginning in send off control mode, that is, from the gas and brake pedals sunk into the floor, there is no sensation of a jerk – Mercedes begins as though there is a glass of water on its long hood and the undertaking of against slip hardware isn’t to spill the substance. Obviously, this weakens the force of the new 435-drive super motor a bit, however it is completely steady with the picture – Mercedes is above common quarrel.
