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Mercedes-Benz

Gullwing set to land under $500K

Mercedes-Benz Australia have just announced a Manufacturer’s List Pricing (MLP) for the SLS AMG ‘Gullwing’ of $464,000. That might seem like a lot of cash to you and me, but it seems there is no shortage of buyers lining up for a dose of 420kW V8 goodness. “The Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG has been extremely well […]

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Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz Shooting Break Concept

Euro wagons are cool, it’s the AUSmotive edict, and this snazzy new Shooting Break Concept from Mercedes is no exception. Inspired by the F 800 SRV, SLS ‘Gullwing’ and the 2008 ConceptFASCINATION the “four-door Coupé CLS” is set to make its public debut at the 2010 Beijing Auto Show. Under the bonnet is a next-generation […]

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Formula 1 Mercedes-Benz

F1 Safety Car gives you wings

Mercedes-Benz are pretty chuffed with their new F1 Safety Car. So much so they’ve written a long press release and released a bunch of new pics. The car, of course, is the SLS AMG ‘Gullwing’. And this is the fifteenth year that Mercedes has headed the field with Safety Car duties, the only company to […]

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New vehicle sales report – January 2010

January 2010 showed good signs for the automotive industry in Australia. While sales for the month did fall dramatically from December 2009 it is worth noting there were strong financial incentives, in the form of Federal Government tax breaks, that saw many businesses rushing to buy cars before the program ended on 31 December. More […]

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Mercedes-Benz

New ‘Gullwing’ production starts – Australian delivery by mid-year

The new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG ‘Gullwing’ is about to go into full production mode. Mind, to make a car that can drive upside down you can’t use any old production line. As such the Gullwing will be hand-built across three facilities—the aluminum body is made by Magna Steyr in Graz, Austria; engine production is carried […]

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Mercedes-Benz

Tunnel vision

Yeah, sure it’s most likely a fake, but this ad/viral/promo clip for the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG ‘Gullwing’ is worth a gander all the same. In case you’re wondering, the text at the end of the clip reads: “Cockpit, engine, wings. Is it still a car?” It’s all a bit reminiscent of Jeremy’s Twingo review from […]

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Mercedes-Benz

VIDEO: Dan Neil drives a toaster

Like me, you have probably never heard of Dan Neil either. That aside, here he gets to do something I’m sure many AUSmotive readers would love to be do—drive the new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG ‘Gullwing’. The clip is short and to the point. On the surface, at least, Neil does a competent job of giving […]

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On a wing and a prayer

Last Friday a spectacular temporary exhibition at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart came to an end. The exhibition featured Mercedes’ new über car the SLS AMG “Gullwing”. Apart from the car itself there’s nothing too special about that. Until you see the car was on show on the museum’s roof, some 42 metres from ground […]

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Green Machines Mercedes-Benz

Chris Harris drives the future

For his weekly video update Chris Harris spent some quality time with the Mercedes-Benz SLS Electric Drive. That’s an all-electric 552kW/1000Nm supercar, in case you’d forgotten. Okay, the downsides are familiar, the range is no match for a conventionally powered SLS and at around 2200kg this car is a lot heavier as well. But just […]

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Rendezvous? S’il vous plait!

Hollywood car guy Jay Leno has attempted one of the biggest car movie heists of all time. In this video The fast and the famous Leno says he was inspired by the iconic 1976 Claude Lelouch short film C’était un rendez-vous, better known simply as Rendezvous—a 9 minute wonder filmed, in one take, on the […]

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Top Gear

Top Gear – Series 14 teasers

Now that Episode 1 of Top Gear‘s fourteenth season is locked away in the vault, Andy Wilman has given a preview of what is in store for the rest of the series. Wilman has given brief outlines of the six remaining episodes and it looks like there might be a week off, with the final […]

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Frankfurt: best of the web

Whoa, this Frankfurt Motor Show has been big! Unfortunately, work and family commitments have left me with a lot of catching up to do. That catching up will have to wait a few days as well, as I will be offline for a few days. In the meantime here are a collection of links from […]