Mercedes has set out to show that you can instruct an old canine new tricks with a little added help from AMG. and this is the result: the new Mercedes-AMG SL, which arrives having been developed in Affalterbach by the brand’s performance wing, “combining the sports cars and driving dynamics of AMG with the comfort and luxurious appeal of Mercedes,” according to AMG boss Philipp Schiemer. 
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Fewer than one per cent of the cars sold by Mercedes around the world were sports cars in 2020, representing 17,800 of total sales of much more than two million. Perhaps, then, it’s a surprise to see that the SL has been given a new lease of life when its smaller SLC sibling has been axed. but Mercedes and AMG have gone back to the drawing board with this new model, which it wants to position as a sportier providing much more in keeping with the original 300 SL of 1954.

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To achieve this, AMG has developed an entirely new platform for the SL called Modular sports architecture (MSA), which will be shared with the next-generation AMG GT at the very least, while several essential changes to the car’s design have been introduced, to reposition it.