The Mercedes SLS AMG was, briefly, heralded as the greatest car in the world. It handled like a mid-engined car, but had all the comfort and normalcy of a front-engine GT. And it had a massive V8. But there was a flaw.
Mercedes has a new sports car in the works that's being called a "replacement" for our beloved tire-slaying Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, but it's supposedly much closer to a Porsche 911 in price. And it gets a neat hatchback for all your stuff!
Since much of the U.S. is now a lifeless, frozen tundra, today would be a great day to go out and do like the Russians do. I don't mean commit maniacal acts of road rage to stick on YouTube; I mean engage in some quality snow hoonage.
This is it folks. 350 units of this including the coupe and the roadster, and the SLS AMG is gone. With it, say goodbye to the 6.2 V8 too.
At the Classic Car Club Manhattan the other night, there were portly little piggies. Here's one sidled up with an AMG Gullwing. Squee!
Much like Ferrari's new lion-based 458 Italia security system, here is a lion sitting on top of a Mercedes SLS AMG. Wait, what?
The SLS AMG Black Series has already crashed and burned to the ground, and none have even been sold to customers yet. Testing on the Nürburgring can be dangerous business.
A lot of car people think that new cars are irredeemably ugly and will never look as good as the classics. We disagree. For proof, here are the most stunning photographs we've seen at the Paris Motor Show this year.
The Mercedes SLS AMG has one of the loudest and most audacious exhaust notes of any car on the road. It's part of what gives it that distinct character.
Thanks to those last few millions of barrels of oil you can finally buy that tuned SLS you've had your eye on. Time to take it to the dyno, and why not sit in the trunk as it shoots flames?
In spite of its old-school design, the gullwing Mercedes SLS AMG attracts some of the most "cutting edge" owners, such as this fashionable lady in Shanghai sporting some frowny face diaper pants.
Mercedes has put a number of heavily disguised cars through high altitude testing this week outside Denver.
Golf is boring. All you do is aim for a little flag. Why not make the hole a moving target, like a $200,000 Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster? That's what Mercedes did, and they set a world record in the process.
Taking a Nissan GT-R to race a bunch of exotic supercars is beating a dead horse at this point. But what about its tall-boy equally-well-endowed brother, the Juke R?
Someone recently filed a patent application for a four-door pillarless version of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG coupe. Yes, you read that right. Even more interesting: Mercedes isn't denying it's their patent.
What do you do when you get tired of your matte pink Lamborghini and your matte pink Ferrari? Give a Mercedes SLS AMG the flat pink treatment of course and then take it on a tour of the world.
The Woodward Dream Cruise on Metro Detroit's historic Woodward Avenue is one of the top ten greatest car events in the world. Each year, Jalopnik picks a special car as its staff cruiser.
So what if the Mercedes SLS AMG has no specific racing pedigree, nor association with the famed Gulf Oil racing livery's long history of victory and scary imitations? As long as this Gulf-blue SLS AMG only has a dash of orange, we approve.
It's only Tuesday and already this week's harvest of crashed supercars looks to be a bumper crop with this addition: a Mercedes SLS AMG in Bosnia thrashed into a bus just a day after rolling off the dealer's lot.
