After years of speculation and a long teaser campaign, Mercedes-Benz finally unveiled the seventh-generation SL roadster on Thursday. Dubbed the R232, this is the most radical redesign of the SL in ...

The Mercedes-Benz SL has gone through some fundamental transformations over the course of its 68-year lifespan. While the original 1954 300SL was a spectacular roadster directly derived from a race ...

While all great cars have at least one party trick, the Mercedes-Benz SL55 has three. Trick number one: the burble. Nothing stirs a car enthusiast’s soul like the barrel-chested burble of a properly ...

Few racetracks in the world elicit such praise and respect as does Road America. Get it right, and you've conquered the hairy beast. Get it wrong, and it will eat you up. Road America's high-speed ...

This is the facelifted SL55 AMG. No, really it is. You can tell by the er, well... Okay, so the styling changes Mercedes-Benz made to its supercharged 5.4-liter V8-powered roadster are relatively ...

The Mercedes SL55 AMG faces the Porsche 911 GT3 in a quarter mile drag race. This video captures both cars showcasing their ...

The Road America circuit offers two of the longest wide-open throttle stretches of any road racing circuit in the world today. Between that distinction and the relatively high concentration of German ...

Back in the early 2000’s, if you couldn’t afford an SLR, the next best thing was the SL55 AMG, a supercharged V8-powered roadster packing a considerable amount of grunt. Straight out of the box, it ...

The SL55 AMG's 5.4-litre V8 may have been based on the SL500's, but very little of the less powerful, non-supercharged motor remains untouched. For starters, there's the belt-driven screw-style ...

The transmission shares the same ratios and final drive as the standard SL, but for the first time, a Mercedes has paddle-style gearchanging devices on the steering wheel, in a new manual mode.

Visually, the AMG version of the fifth-generation SL is no improvement over the SL500. The various spoilers, the chiseled rocker covers, and the F1-inspired nose seem to neutralize the SL's stealthy ...