4 model families in the catalog.
1954–1963Ancestor
300 SL: The Racer That Grew Gullwing Doors
Fifty miles from the finish of the third Carrera Panamericana, on a fast right-hander taken at close to 200km/h, Karl Kling and his co-driver Hans Klenk hit a vulture. It came through the windscreen and struck Klenk directly, briefly knocking him unconscious and leaving both men covered in blood and broken glass; the…
1963–present
The Long Roof: Mercedes-Benz SL, 1963-2026
At the 1963 Geneva Motor Show, Mercedes-Benz needed a car that could do two jobs the 300 SL and 190 SL had, between them, been doing separately: give the brand a halo roadster with genuine sporting credibility, and give its most important export markets a two-seater comfortable enough to actually live with. The car…
2014–present
The Second Time AMG Built a Car From Nothing
When Mercedes-AMG unveiled a low, wide, impossibly long-hooded coupe on 9 September 2014, the shape was one reason it mattered. The other was what the car was not: a warmed-over Mercedes-Benz. For most of AMG's history as a tuning house turned in-house performance division, that distinction hadn't mattered much…
1996–2020
Mercedes-Benz SLK and SLC
Mercedes-Benz revealed the production version of its compact two-seat roadster at the Turin Motor Show on April 22, 1996, with production beginning that July at the Bremen plant. The car was called the SLK, an abbreviation of the German "Sportlich, Leicht, Kurz" (sporty, lightweight, short), and it entered a market…