SL-Class [Renders] 2021 Mercedes-Benz SL

[Grosser]

You can fit 4 people in there?

 

[Deleted member 1071]

You can fit 4 people in there?

Not really, I reckon.

We may be seeing something similar to that "rear seat option" offered for the R107 SL way back in the 1970s'/80s'.

 

[fortuner]

Wow that looks really promising...maybe just maybe the SL is back..

Yes if its 4 seater it will be smal kids seats like the R107 basically a gimmick.

 

[klier]

Looks excellent indeed

 

[SKY]

According to jesmb it will debut during Spring 2021.

Hopefully, in a better time in which masks are a distant memory.

 

[CrunchSlaughtered]

It looks great but somehow too small for a SL.

 

[Deleted member 1071]

It looks great but somehow too small for a SL.

Exterior dimensions somewhere in between the R172 SLK/SLC and R231 SL, I imagine.

 

[Monster]

It looks great but somehow too small for a SL.

I suppose it is a good thing. The original SL is small, and it just grew to be bigger and bigger after each generation. I believe SL used to stand for sports and light.

 

[SKY]

I wonder how MB is going to implement the new vertical touch screen set up on a sporty interior. Proably along the lines of Ferrari Roma, if I had to guess.

Also, taking into account the GT is going to share a lot with this SL, let's hope both models are different enough.

 

[Wunderkind]

Looks like a classy Honda S2000

 

[Merc1]

Look good so far, but I don't get the point of making the SL an all AMG lineup. This is supposed to be the luxury/sport roadster. If you're going to make it all AMG then how hard core is the next AMG GT going to be? No SL500/560/580? Terrible decision.

M

 

[Serpens]

Look good so far, but I don't get the point of making the SL an all AMG lineup. This is supposed to be the luxury/sport roadster. If you're going to make it all AMG then how hard core is the next AMG GT going to be? No SL500/560/580? Terrible decision.

M

I think Mercedes took note to the fact that the average age of a non-AMG SL buyer was...very old. Back in 2016 at the time of the SL facelift, Mercedes acknowledged that 50% of SL volume is made up of U.S. sales and the owners averaged late 50s/early 60s. They were hoping the SL400 (pre facelift) and SL450 (post facelift) were going to help with this but younger buyers instead largely went elsewhere.

 

[.Wyatt]

It does look somewhat like a mix of the current CLS at the front and the AMG GT at the back. I really hope it doesn't use the same taillight-arrangement of the upcoming S-Class that scream Audi.
Not that sure if I like what I'm seeing.

 

[gmag]

Which front engined cars with transaxle have awd?

Nissan GTR

 

[Serpens]

Nissan GTR

Ferrari FF/GTC4Lusso too

 

[Deleted member 1071]

I really hope it doesn't use the same taillight-arrangement of the upcoming S-Class that scream Audi.

The taillamps are not the only possible element that would lead us to suspect some sort of covert collaboration involving the Neckarsulm and Untertürkheim design departments:

Windscreen frames and hoodlines looking a bit "kindred".

 

[Ozy]

Taillights seem very straight. There is a small duck tail spoiler like on the Aston Martin DBX, they could put the star under that and then we still got space for a horizontal led line as on the Maybach Vision 6. But it’s questionable whether they would still use it since that became the signature of the EQ series and also there are quite a lot of cars on the roads which already have it

 

[fortuner]

Some information below the pic.

 

[dalab]

It's good to see that they finally took them out for a walk

 

[Rolf]

Wow this looks great, much more emotional styling with a link to classic routes with this model. It looks like been the most compact SL since the R129