Nice article on the SL65:
http://www.automobilemag.com/reviews/conve..._amg/index.html

My favorite quote from the article:
No doubt the AMG is a nice ride, but even if I could afford one and wore an Armani suit to work, I'd take the Snake

 

dhhhhhhhhhh a mustang over any thing. It was my first and will be my last

 

The cost difference kinda puts these two in different atmospheres, but both are sweet rides. 738 ft-lb of torque in the MB, i love it. Picked the snake anyways though. obivously.

And im with Barrett, its my first and itll be my last.

 

Great idea. Totally unexpected yet totally logical, I'll bet (and hope) a magazine steals this comparison idea.

Stock, the SL, but with $5k in mods, the GT500 for sure.

 

hmm i dunno...tough choice...unless youve driven an SL even if its the 500, its such an amazing car. I got to drive my friends moms 2005 SL500. The technology, the materials, the fit and finish are spectacular. The V8 in that car sounds so bada**. Touch one button and put the top down and its a whole differnt car. Then when you throw the 65 into the mix thats one heck of a monster. If i was given the choice id have to take the 65.

 

So say the GT500 is 50 grand and the sl65 is 180 grand. For the price of the SL65 you could buy 2 GT 500 with some crate motors and a ton of mods so that it they could own the sl65

 

sorry guys I gotta go w/ the Benz...it has a frikkin 600hp v12! and it looks spectacular!

 

Mercedes, they're my favorite cars. I would love to have late 1990s S-Class.

 

Watch out there Colin, youre bordering on ricer talk. Theyre both amazing cars.

 

Why buy a crate motor for the GT500? With a pulley, tune, intake, exhaust you'd have some crazy big numbers. Or if you wanna go totally insane, swap the stock blower for a KB 2.4 or something.


But yeah, about the SL, those TT V12s can propel 5000 pounds of luxury down the 1/4 in the mid 11s...so yeah.

 

Can't even compare the two cars. SL65 hands down. Fast, sexy, and comfortable.

 

I have to go with mercedes.
if the price didnt matter.

but I am saving money to get a cobra already heheeh.

that car is too much money to spend!!

anyway, that race track in Orlando, is the one close to my job, I need to go on wednesday to see those cars man!!

 

I voted the M-B. And if for some reason I ever hit my head and decided to sell it, I could get a coupe AND covertible GT-500.

 

its really not fair to compare these two cars.

if money weren't an object i'd tak ethe SL65 SMG for sure.

 

I'm going with the merc....
I might be swaded the other way if it was a gt500 with everything Shelby stripped off it

 

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i saw an all-black 1997 s-class around where i live for sale...its about 12,500

 

the SL65 amg, and thats coming from a mustang fan,, but hey with the technology and stability,, and the german engineering you can't go wrong with the MB,, that is again if the price was not an issue