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Mercedes SLS AMG convertible spied

Mercedes’ drop-top supercar spied with roof down for the first time.

Mercedes SLS AMG convertible side

By Tom Phillips

26th October 2010

The SLS is opening up! Mercedes’ supercar is going topless and Auto Express has the first pictures of the convertible opened to the elements.

Taking the gullwing SLS supercar as a base, including the storming 6.2-litre V8 and twin-clutch gearbox, Mercedes’ engineers have ditched the famous doors in favour of opening the car’s interior up to the elements.

Instead of using a heavy and complex folding metal arrangement, as seen on the SL, Mercedes has elected to fit a revised version of the canvas top which used on the previous SLR roadster.

The electrically-operated roof is made from a lightweight aluminium roof frame clad in canvas, which buyers can elect to have in a colour matching the exterior paint finish, or in a contrasting hue as seen on this development car. By keeping the weight of the top down, this still allows the SLS roadster to have a top speed north of 200mph.

The SLS convertible is set to make its debut at next year’s Frankfurt Motor Show, due to be held in mid-September, before going on sale priced at around £180,000.

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3 Comments

sls ragtop

I'm sure it will be a beautiful car too. But I prefer my SLS Gullwing for two reasons. (1) The sound of the big V-8 just makes me never want to stop driving it, and a canvass top will muffle the sound of the exhaust. And (2) when those doors go up, even the people that are not car lovers turn their heads. Hats off to AMG. It's amazing on the street and even more amazing on the track.

By slsguy on 28 October, 2010, 4:38pm

Gullwing doors or not.....the ugliest car on the market in my opinion! Why did Merc take all that tech and wrap it in such a pig of a body??

By Lostash on 29 October, 2010, 12:19am

So Negative, as always

AE must comprise of mostly miserable old negative farts, getting pretty tired of this pathetic miserable pessimistic British attitude, no wonder this nation is sinking down the drain, so backward in thinking.

Think this is a stunning lookin' motor.

By Nexus82 on 29 October, 2010, 12:36am

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