Revealed The new 2013 Mercedez-Benz SL550 Best Personal Assistant or Butler Completed spesifications

The new SL is like the best personal assistant or butler. He's always on time, always there when you need him, always prepared, and always ready to serve. But you dont (usualy) mary your butler. the SL is smooth, powerful, luxurious, and eminently capable. it just doesn't create emotinal connections. its more of bussines relatioship.

thats not says weren't parts of the SL we loved. with its blacktop-twisting 516 lb-ft of torque and thunderous exhaust note, the win-turbo 4.7-liter V-8 made friend easly. that it could nearly run down the porsche while weighing 700 pound more left us shaking our heads. likewise, we were uniformly impressed with SL's ride quality. On top of that, it offered impressed grip and sharper turn-in than did the porsche.

Revealed The new 2013 Mercedez-Benz SL550 Best Personal Assistant or Butler Completed spesifications

the SL's trick bag also impressed, The magic sky control roof, wich changes from clear to deep tint at the push of abutton, still has us cohing and ahhing. the airscarf, a vent that blows warm air on the back of your neck, also was a hit. the seats, with their heaters, coolers, massagers, bolsters, and more adjusments than I can remember, were a thecnological tour de force by themeselves. the folding hard top, meanwhile

, kept the interior so quiet lago quipped.

Revealed The new 2013 Mercedez-Benz SL550 Best Personal Assistant or Butler Completed spesifications

that roof, though, has some issues whwn folded, it takes up a lot of trunk space. more important, as I discoveref at rather short light in bevery hills, it won't work while the car is moving, and it's not the fastertop in the world. complaints also were logged regarding the sterring, wich offered amazingly sharp turn-in but litle feedback, and unexepectedly ramped up the ratio the more you turned rhe wheel. At the track, the razor-sharp thortle made mid-corner adjusment very difficult, and all that torque was all too happy to push the tail ot when the nannies were benched. then there's the question of the interior design wich was inged as too "old man" and looks far too much like that 50 percent cheaper SLK-class.

Revealed The new 2013 Mercedez-Benz SL550 Best Personal Assistant or Butler Completed spesifications

The SL appeals to the adult, its mature, comfortable, and capable. It makes a statement, declaring to the world that the driver has money, but isn't trying to be especially flashly. it reserved and competent. I want to put on my Gordon Gekko suspenders and drive (quickly) to an important bussines meeting, but on the weekeds, I'll be playing with something else.

Revealed The new 2013 Mercedez-Benz SL550 Best Personal Assistant or Butler Completed spesifications

Spesification 2013 Mercedez-Benz SL550.

power trains/chassis

Draivetrain layout: Front Engine, RWD
Engine Type: Twin-turbo 90-deg V-8 aluminium block/heads
Valvetrain: DOHC, 4 valves/cyl
Displacement: 248.6 cu in/4663 cc
compression ratio: 10.5:1
Power (Sae Net): 429 hp @5250 rpm
Torque (Sae Net): 516 lb-ft @1800 rpm
redline: 6300 rpm
weight to power: 9.6 lb/hp
transmission: 7-speed automatic
axle/final-Drive ratio: 2.65:1/1.93.1
Suspenssion, Front; Rear: multilink, hydraulic and coil springs, adj shocks; multilink, hydroulic and coil springs, adj shocks.
Steering ratio: 15.9:1 (on center)
turn lock-to-lock: 2.2
brakes: 13.5-in vented,driled disc; 12.6-in vented, disc ABS
Wheels, F:R : 9.0 x 18-in, cast alumunium.
Tires, F:R : 255/35ZR 96Y Bridgestone Potenza 5001

Dimensions

Wheelbase : 101.8 in
Track, F/R: 62.9/63.0 in
Length x width x height: 181.8 x 73.9 x 51.8 in
Turning Circle: 36.2 ft
Cure Wieght: 4104 lb
Weight Dist, F/R: 52/48%
Seating capacity: 2
Headroom, F/R: 39.1/-in
leghroom, F/R: 42.9/-in
Shoulder Room: 55.5/-in
Cargo Volume: 17.8 cu ft

Test Data

Acceleration To MPH
0-30 : 16 sec
0-40 : 2.4
0-50 : 3.1
0-60 : 4.0
0-70 : 5.3
0-80 : 6.5
0-100 : 9.7
PASSING, 45-65 MPH : 2.0
QUARTER MILE : 12.5 sec @ 114.0 mph
BRAKING, 60-0 MPH : 105 ft
LATERAL ACCELERATIONS : 0.94 g (avg)
NT FIGURE EIGHT: 25.0 sec @ 0.73 g (avg)
TOP-GEAR REVS @60 MPH : 1550 rpm

Consumer Info

Base Price : $106,405
Price As tested : $124,345
Stability/Traction control : yes / yes
Airbags : Dual front, front side. front knee
basic warranty : 4 yrs/50.000 mi
Powertrain Waranty : 4 yrs/50.000 mi
Roadside : 4 yrs/50.000 mi
Fuel Capacity : 16/24 mpg
Epa City/HWY econ : 211/140 kW-hrs/100 mi
CO2 Emissions : 1.03 lb/mi
NT fuell economy : 20.9 mpg

Revealed The new 2013 Mercedez-Benz SL550 Best Personal Assistant or Butler Completed spesifications