2005 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class

SL600 Convertible

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2005 Mercedes-Benz SL600 Convertible MARS RED Exterior Charcoal Black Interior Brabus Silver Carbin Fiber Custom Interior - $2500 Option MARS RED Aluminium hardtop with rear window Electronically controlled Touch Shift 5-spd. auto trans with winter and sport settings SOHC 36V twin-turbocharged 5.5L aluminium V12 engine TURBO!!! Two words: Simply Incredible !!! There is just no other car in (or anywhere near) this price range that can match the feeling you get when you drive it. This car is only being sold because of financial difficulties. But my loss is your gain… I guarantee “You will Love This car” The full Story behind this incredible machine!!! Electronically controlled Touch Shift 5-spd. auto trans with winter and sport settings SOHC 36V twin-turbocharged 5.5L aluminium V12 engine, twin-spark, sequential multi-point fuel injection, 3-valve-per-cylinder technology (1999 and newer models to qualify as a California Low Emissions Vehicle and, according to Mercedes, perform at Ultra Low Emissions Vehicle levels), 493 hp @ 5,000 rpm., 590 ft-lbs. torque @ 1,800 rpm., bore x stroke: 82mm x 87mm, compression ration 9.0:1,Independent four-link front suspension with active electrohydraulic control, load-dependent spring rates, gas-charged shocks, coil springs and level control, Independent five-link rear suspension with active electrohydraulic control, load-dependent spring rates, gas-charged shocks, coil springs and level control, 4-wheel vented disc brakes (silver brake calipers) with ABS backed up with (SBC) electronic braking system, (ABC / BAS) Brake Assist and brake by wire system, cornering brake control, electronic brake distribution, (ESP) electronic stability program, (ASR) electronic traction control via ABS and engine management, (ABC) active body control, throttle by wire, dual front and side airbags with head-thorax impact airbags, occupant sensors and drivers knee airbag, seatbelts with emergency tension retractors, vehicle speed proportional power steering, dual 12-way heated and ventilated power seats with multi contour seat backs, pulse massage, 3-postion memory, and one-touch forward / back feature to allow easy access to the rear storage area, height adjustable electric adjustable head restraints and 3-position memory ext. mirror and steering wheel memory, aerodynamic bumpers & side sills with integrated projector beam fog lamps in a deep apron with a mesh air dam., bi-Xenon headlamps with time delay switch-off, dusk sensor and high pressure headlight washer system, 8-speaker BOSE AudioPilot digital surround sound system with in-dash CD, subwoofer & amp and 6-CD changer with element antenna, Mercedes-Benz "COMAND" NAV system with full map and knobs / touch control, pre-wired for SIRIUS satellite radio, audio and driver information center controls on the steering wheel, rain sensing intermittent wipers, power heated exterior mirrors, embroidered V12 floor mats, auto-dimming electrochromatic interior rear view and exterior driver's side mirrors with integrated amber turn signals, power tilt and telescoping steering wheel, full power convertible hard top, self sealing windows, night-time security illumination system, HomeLink 3-button garage door opener integrated into rear view mirror, "V12" logo embossed in headrests, analog and digital dash with ext. temp gauge and clock, automatic electric roll bar (pops up in the event of an impending rollover), power door locks with keyless entry (1 key and 1 remote), aluminium pedals, Options: the SL600 comes standard with most SL options, although this vehicle does have keyless-go, full leather interior, alcantara headliner, sun-visors and A-pillars, removable windscreen and storage bag, custom chrome rims, and custom Brabus silver weave carbon fiber interior trim kit, factory alarm and engine immobilizer, peripheral anti-theft protection, locking trunk and gas filler door, dual zone auto climate control with carbon pollen filters, locking center console storage, locking storage compartments behind front seats and in both door panels, cruise control, power windows with express up and down feature, dual heated power exterior mirrors, aluminium door sill kick plate, dual illuminated vanity mirrors and overhead map lights, remote trunk release with pneumatic trunk closer, cargo area light, coming home feature, luggage straps built into the storage area behind the seats, chrome exhaust tips, 19" 2-piece MKW chrome alloy rims with Toyo Proxess T1R tires (255/55-19f & 285/30-19r) with Tread Depth Measurements: DF: 6/32, PF: 5/32, DR: 3/32, PR: 7/32 (10/32 is new tire tread depth), complete tool kit, checks out with Mercedes-Benz North America, clean CarFax and AutoCheck reports, 13 mpg city / 19 mpg highway fuel economy, drives extremely well, very smooth and very fast, all books and manuals, strong service history and original window sticker. General information on the new body SL Mercedes-Benz has launched a totally new SL to replace the previous model. A technological tour-de-force, the 2003 SL is improved in every way over the 2002 SL, which enjoyed record sales last year in spite of its 12-year-old design. The new Mercedes SL is a sinuous, sensuous roadster with dramatic styling. Press a button and, 16 seconds later, its retractable power steel roof changes it from the open-air fun of a convertible to the quiet comfort of a luxury coupe. The SL is packed with every bit of automotive technology that Mercedes has perfected over the past dozen years, and that's a lot of technology. It does everything well, assuming you like to travel light because there's not much luggage space. The Mercedes SL500 / 600 is one of the most beautiful cars in the world. From the jutting chin of its front bumper to the four-eyed headlamps to the traditional front fender air intakes to the shoulders over the rear tires to the five-spoke alloy wheels, the SL500 /600 is not only the new style leader for Mercedes-Benz, but a new style leader for the entire segment. Mercedes says the new SL simultaneously pays homage to its legendary great grandfathers while offering a new interpretation of excitement. Now almost 50 years in production, it is an automotive icon. It dates back to the 1954-63 300SL "Gullwing" Coupe. The most recent generation of SLs ran from 1989 to 2002. The air inlets in the front fenders were inspired by the original 300SL. The narrow, wing-like chrome gills are reminiscent of the first SL Roadsters and are echoed in the hood. The four-eye headlamp pattern has the two lamps on each side melting into one another. They represent the latest in lighting technology with a circular Fresnel lens that concentrates the light emitted by the standard xenon headlamps. From the side, the rising beltline contributes to the car's rake. At the rear, the Mercedes triangular taillights use 27 LED bulbs designed to illuminate more quickly. The Mercedes SL has a completely new interior design, different from the CL coupes and very different from the Mercedes sedans. Two large round instrument pods carry the primary instruments, using smart, colorful graphics shared by no other Mercedes-Benz. The instrument panel and center console are well organized and feature the Mercedes COMAND screen that operates the sound system, navigation system, and telephone, with redundant controls on the new steering wheel. Below center, just ahead of the shifter, are the ventilation controls, similar in style to the twin round controls used in the M-Class SUVs. Voice activation for the phone, radio and ventilation system is optional. The leather-covered seats that come with the car are superbly comfortable for grand touring, but if you need more and want more, Mercedes offers both dynamic multi-contour seats that give a continuous massage, or seats with active seat ventilation. The standard seats are larger and more sumptuous than the previous models because there is simply more room in the cockpit, with more room to adjust the seat for tall drivers and more room to rake the seat back. That's because the new automatic folding steel top design doesn't take up as much room as the old fabric convertible top. Behind the bucket seats are twin lockable storage compartments in place of the ridiculously small jump seats in the old car. The seats will adjust to anyone save a midget or an NBA starter, and the cabin feels much more open than the previous model did. With the steel top up, the SL turns into a coupe as quiet as a church on Wednesday, allowing the occupants to relax and cover ground while the new 10-speaker sound system (with separate 100-watt amplified subwoofer) bathes the interior in sound. With the top stowed, a 16-second process, the sound system compensates automatically for the increased road noise. Mercedes worked long and hard to ensure that with the top down and the side windows down, you can still hold a normal conversation with your traveling partner even at very high road speeds. An interesting new feature is the optional Keyless Go card, an electronically coded card that replaces the normal fob-and-key arrangement. As long as you have Keyless Go in your pocket or purse, you simply walk up to the car, touch the door handle to unlock the car, and then, once seated, you touch the knob on top of the shifter to start (or stop) the engine. Pretty handy when you're in a hurry or a rainstorm. Passive safety features include front and side head-and-thorax airbags as well as new knee bags, and an automatic rollover protection bar that snaps up to protect you if the top is down. 2005 Mercedes-Benz SL600: The V-12 SL is the rare exotic you can -- and want to -- drive every day. by Michael Frank, Forbes.com If General Motors' vice chairman of product development, Robert A. "Bob"Lutz , wants Cadillac to sell cars for more than $100,000, perhaps he should study the Mercedes-Benz SL600. General Motors already has the Hummer brand, which sells its H1 for over $100K -- but that's another story. The V-12-powered, $126,670 Mercedes SL600 is much closer in spirit to Cadillac's 16-cylinder Sixteen concept vehicle, which GM would also like to market in the six-figure range. The challenge is convincing consumers to spend that much on a Cadillac. Lutz commented at this year's 2004 North American International Auto Show in Detroit that the Sixteen prototype, shown a year ago, might still see production, since Cadillac's strategy is to attack the high-end market in order to regain its lost prestige. Unlike the Sixteen, however, Mercedes' SL brand has a very long history, dating back to its famous 300SL Gullwings from the 1950s. GM can't just roll out a new behemoth like the Sixteen and win instant creditability -- or, more importantly, instant profits. But it could learn a few things from Mercedes. DaimlerChrysler's Mercedes-Benz division sold more than 13,000 SL-Class cars last year in the United States, at an average price of about $100,000 each. That's a huge pile of cash (and you can bet that per-unit profits are much higher at this range than at, say, the $35,000 category, where Cadillac shifts its CTS sedan). Although Cadillac has just introduced the well-received, $70,000 XLR roadster, the company has to fight its way back to the top, one model at a time if need be. For proof, look at BMW. That carmaker's splendid Z8 was meant to be an SL rival, but those who could vote on the matter -- buyers -- didn't seem to want $100,000 two-seat BMWs as much as the SL600. So the Z8 lived only for a few short years, selling about 400 units per 12 months; Mercedes sells 2.5 times that many SLs every 30 days. But it's more than just a legacy. There's serious substance to the SL600, way beyond that three-pointed star on the bonnet -- not that the Z8 had any shortage of performance chops and sex appeal, but the SL600 is a hot car by virtually any measure. Just consider the V-12: With 493 horsepower and 590 foot-pounds of torque, it'll launch the SL to 60 miles per hour in 4.5 seconds, yet at 80 mph it's barely breathing, only churning at 2,500 rpm; so, unlike other machines that can accelerate this quickly, the Benz is true to its heritage. Smooth power is this car's raison d'être, and it is manifested through luxurious packaging, an unbeatable reputation and excellent engineering. And the ride, too, can be as yielding as you'd ever desire from a car this powerful (not as cushy as big-sedan plush, but remember, this isn't a big sedan). Can be, because Mercedes lets you adjust both the ride height and the sportiness of the suspension, so you can nail the car to the road or let it cruise more softly. That's a lot more flexible than what Porsche offers in its 911 line, making the Benz a better choice if you want a sports two-door that can be driven all day, every day, for commuting. Then again, this isn't a pure sports car, like the Porsche. And that begs the question, naturally, that if you're spending $126,000 on the SL600, what might you be missing? One of the niftiest things about the SL is how well Mercedes controls wind noise, even with the folding metal/glass top in the retracted position. There's an electrically deployable wind baffle that folds up behind the rear seats at the touch of a dash-mounted button, and when the windows are up you can drive at 75 mph without even adjusting the stereo. And since the 600 comes standard with a hands-free, voice-control Motorola V60 cell phone (that you can remove from the car), you might just want to drive around with the top down -- and talk at the same time. Drive with that folding metal lid in the up position, by the way, and you'd never even know this car is a convertible -- it's that quiet inside. You can also delight in standard, radar-based cruise control that keeps your pretty machine at a safe distance from other cars, not to mention sonar-assist for parking. Not that I wanted to get out of the 600 when I was parked -- it also comes standard with active-ventilated seats with massage functions. This is a pretty nice place to linger. There's double-stitched leather bisecting the dash, as well as a retro-twin hood for the whitish-blue LED gauges; metal rims grace the air vents and metallic wheels poke out of a wood-backed center console, so you can adjust the temperature of both passenger and driver compartments. Also, Mercedes is smart enough to make sure the seat's rake is quite long but also can get smaller drivers close enough to be comfortable at the wheel. The automaker is also smart to make the portion of roof over your head (when it's closed) out of glass, so you won't miss having a moonroof, even in winter when top-up driving in some convertibles feels like piloting a rolling, claustrophobic cave. Another distinguishing factor of the SL is how seriously Mercedes incorporates safety features. There's the usual brace of six airbags, but even better, the SL600 gets standard traction and stability control. Active suspension also aids handling by cutting squat and dive during braking, which can alter the delicate balance of traction in slippery conditions. When the weather isn't frigid or slippery, the active suspension also cuts side-to-side body roll (using four hydraulic pistons on top of each of the coil springs that get signals from road-sensing computers). As you round turns hard, the suspension gives you more control because the weight of the car isn't bending away from the wheels that are fighting for grip. Hit the "Sport" mode, and active suspension ratchets things down even more; the compromise here, however, is that in Sport even minor road dips and ruts will be felt through the wheel and in the seat of your pants. Also, we wish Mercedes would put the suspension and traction control on/off switches high on the dash, not low, adjacent to the five-speed switchgear. You don't want to look away from the road to change these modes, but as it is you have no choice in the matter. No matter where they place these switches, though, it's important to know that this is decidedly not a Porsche 911, let alone a $120,000 911 Turbo. The distinction here is one of grip and control as well as feedback. The steering of the SL600 weighs up nicely in corners, but there's nothing like the tactile feel you get in the Porsche. And although the Mercedes gets huge, 18-inch tires (255/40 front, 285/35 rear), traction gives way well before it does in the Turbo, and that giant width can also lead to unpleasant tramlining in Sport mode (that feeling of wavering to and fro that you might have felt when driving over large expansion joints on bridges). That's it for the niggles, though. As we said, the mission here is smooth power, and that's just what you get. The 5.5-liter V-12 is muscular but exotically so; there's a nervous, whirring rush to the exhaust at startup, and the twin turbochargers suck in enough air to kick acceleration from 30-to-60 mph up to a level met only by bullet trains and real race cars. Peak torque arrives at merely 1,800 rpm, so a simple, purposeful push of the throttle pins your head against the seat. And yet the joy of the SL is that glassy smoothness to all the controls, to the driving sensations, and even to gunning it from 80 mph up past 100 mph. This is the kind of car you dream of owning when you grow up -- or when you don't want to. Honestly, the only thing missing from the SL experience is that slightly raw edge you might desire from a 911 Turbo -- or, if you can afford one, a $160,000 Lamborghini Gallardo. These are all rarified cars, but if you're thinking about the SL, we doubt you're considering Lamborghini or even Porsche Turbo. The Benz is nothing like those cars, nor should it be; although they are more expensive, Aston Martin's DB7 convertible and Bentley's new Continental GT coupe are, as stately 12-cylinder showboats, more similar to the SL600. What it gives you in place of machismo is refinement. For instance, the roof folds or unfolds in only 16 seconds, so you can deploy or close the sucker electronically at any stoplight. Oh, and if going fast is what you desire on the odd Thursday commute, the top speed doesn't arrive until 155 mph. Want to head out of town? With the roof up, there's room for two large suitcases in the trunk (one large bag and one soft-sided will fit with the top down). What more could you want from a near-exotic sports cruiser? We might also mention that, compared to other V-12s on the market (think Aston Martin, Ferrari, Lamborghini), we have a hunch the Mercedes motor will be a lot less painful to maintain -- not to mention less expensive to buy. And even if you do need work on this baby, Mercedes dealers tend to exist in places where you won't find an Aston Martin service bay -- or even a Porsche one. The drawback is that availability can turn into saturation. While more rarified than the average Mercedes, the SL600 may not be exclusive enough for buyers with this kind of cash to throw around, who may opt for an even more unusual nameplate. But Mercedes has earned its reputation making quality automobiles in large numbers. The company is confident enough in its brand that it can offer a car in virtually every price range. For those who want to buy a $100K-plus sports car that they know will be as comfortable as a luxury sedan, the SL600 should be at the top of any prospective buyer's list. This isn't an extreme exotic. It drives more smoothly, it corners less aggressively, and its engine lives in front of you, not out back. But we can't think of why that should really matter. This is an SL, a slightly exotic, very sexy, very easily driven machine. If you don't get it, you shouldn't buy one. If you do, there's no excuse (save lack of funds) not to. The all-new Mercedes-Benz SL500 is a very competent sports car that takes the place of what was previously considered a sporty car. There's a big difference between sports car and sporty car. Initially intended as nothing more than an abbreviation for "sporty" and "light," the term SL has come to mean much more. Now it seems to mean luxury, sports car, classy, loaded. The SL500 has little competition other than the Jaguar XKR roadster in its price class (the BMW Z8 is half again as much and hard to find). The Mercedes has the Jag covered in every respect except trunk space (though Jaguar is revising the XK range for 2003). Although the Mercedes trunk is 42 percent larger than the previous models, that translates to only 11.2 cubic feet with the top up, and less with the top down. This may not be enough for two Americans on a road trip. Overall, the SL500 is a techno robot masquerading as a slick German roadster, a 50th anniversary present from Mercedes for the fortunate few. SL600 The Roadster KBB (Kelly Blue Book) Suggested Retail Value with this milage and these options = $42,055 KBB (Kelly Blue Book) Private Party Value with this milage and these options = $38,355 Note: This car at anything less than 35k is a steal !!! 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