What does 585hp do for the latest SL?
In an industry obsessed with the notion of reinvention, it is easy to undersell the significance of. After all, at face value, the model appears to be much as it ever was - a big, reassuringly expensive roadster powered by an impressively large petrol engine. Sure, it has traded in the folding hardtop for a fabric roof and become a 2+2 as standard, but it still presents as peak Mercedes - a flagship chiefly built to impress friends and intimidate enemies.
This, the new SL 63, is inevitably the chunkier of the two as far as output is concerned. The earlier back in December was furnished with 476hp; the halo model gets 585hp. This is quite a lot more. Torque is up too at 590lb ft which is as much as you’ll find in the current Porsche 911 Turbo S, a car that rivals the 63’s inflated price tag.
Inside, it’s not quite so well organised - although that might be a symptom of just how much stuff needs organising. Mercedes UK is very conscious of the sheer number of features baked into the current MBUX system, and the S-Class-derived interior is inclined to flaunt its complexity rather than lean toward ease of use. But it’s comforting to be reminded that most of the dynamic functions any of us would care about are assigned to the two rotary dials on the steering wheel.
Fortunately, ‘Sport’, as it did for the 55, pretty much remedies all these shortcomings. The waywardness at low speeds is replaced by a more confident hold on the body, which doesn’t sacrifice a generally well-mannered secondary response to manhole covers and the like. More importantly, its superior assurance chimes with the agility that four-wheel steering lends to this generation of SL; this is a big car, but it turns in swiftly and in that all-of-a-piece way that encourages fast progress.
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