First Drive: Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG Black Series
Friday, November 07, 2008
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Don?t feel bad if news of yet another ultra-limited edition, megabucks supercar leaves you feeling a bit, er, sleepy, to put it kindly. This business of manufacturers taking what is already a world-class automobile, adding horsepower, commemorative badging, unique paint and maybe throwing in a collector?s watch (wait, you thought you were buying a car?) has become more than a little tired. In some cases, it?s downright insulting to customers whose favorite car company, apparently, does not view them as anything approaching intelligent.
Mercedes-Benz must respect its best clients. How else to explain the 2009 SL65 AMG Black Series, a limited-edition (350 cars worldwide), megabucks ($299,000) supercar that makes you forget its origins--it feels almost nothing like the SL on which it is based---within, oh, three seconds after you lay eyes on it, let alone turn the key?
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In this case, you really shouldn?t think about such matters at all, unless you desire to become the centerpiece of a carbon-fiber Rorschach, splattered along the roadside. Just concentrate. And hold on. Whether or not it is worth the price of admission depends on your sensibilities, but you will never call it marketing fluff. Most of the things you will call it can not be printed here. Fast? Frighteningly so. Exotic? Like a Faberg? egg.
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