Posts Tagged ‘63’

Driven (loudly) – The SL 63 AMG MadMan Edition

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Every now and then a movie comes along which quite simply blows you away. A Dark Knight was that movie for me. It is a masterful arrangement of celluloid; a symphony of action, suspense, emotion and well, explosions really.

Heath Ledger was remarkable as the joker: he personified evil. His polar opposite is obviously our winged hero, in a thankfully less camp batsuit. And representing both sides in one tormented and twisted character: TwoFace. This poor bugger starts of a charming bastion of all that is saintly until someone really pisses him off, creating the most frightening villain imaginable since Anton Chigur in No Country for Old Men.

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Gullwing Reborn: Merc + Retro = Success

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

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Bringing back the past is always risky. Volkswagen achieved about three days of glory with the reborn Beetle. Ford has generated billions with their gamble on the new Mustang, and Fiat has achieved similar bank-busting success with the 500.

But the SLS was always going to be different. Built from the ground up by AMG, this is not a SL63 AMG in drag. This is all new; and the nostalgia is almost as powerful as the 386kW V8.

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