Mercedes-Benz 500SL review
Mercedes-Benz SL 500 Road Test
Test date 20 December 1989
Price as tested £66,940
Compare the new SL with the model it replaces, and you could believe that hidden away in some secret part of Mercedes’ Stuttgart factory there sits a still-born SL: the missing link, such is the advance made by the company with the new car. It furthers Mercedes’ ground-breaking safety record and at the same time shows that the company’s stifling conservatism is at last giving way to flair and imagination. The SL is the most dramatic – some would say indulgent – Mercedes since the gull-wing 300SL.
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