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When we chose the SLS AMG Black Series as runner-up in R&T’s PCOTY, we didn’t realize that we were altering the resale market for these automobiles.
If, in fact, that’s what happened. More likely, the obvious virtues of the Black Series over its more pedestrian siblings and AMG’s decision to seriously under-produce the car made more difference than any magazine award. But regardless of the reason, if you want one it will cost you. This isn’t the only Black Series out there being listed for a big number, and what we’re hearing from dealers is that the big numbers are right on point.
But the good news for SLS fans is that R&T will have another feature on the car coming soon. Perhaps this will whet your appetite:
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Imagine how much it would be going for if it wasn’t pussy repellent yellow.
With comments like that, I’m sure you’re one heck of a chick magnet.
It is a call back to a popular internet meme, sorry for offending your delicate ears.
In my experience nobody attracts lovers like those that lurk in the background waiting to scold other commenters with the cliché “you don’t get laid”.
I am not saying that there is no car that wouldn’t look good in this yellow, but the SLS looks really bad in it. Imagine what an SLS Black Series in a good color would go for.
Um. You just riposted with a “no, YOU don’t get laid” (in an admittedly roundabout fashion), hence your lover-attraction powers are now called into question by…yourself.
Just thought that was a bit head-scratching.
I recently read a study that yellow cars average 20% higher resale than other colors. I’d say your comment is incorrect based on that.
BTW, you misspelled “magnet” .
Is the study adjusted for the actual car make and model?
Otherwise, to the extent the study is correct at all, my initial analysis is: The cars that offer yellow tend to be cars that hold their value better (e.g. the SLS), but, limited to those cars, yellow is probably not a good color in terms of resale value retention.
http://m.autoblog.com/2014/06/22/yellow-orange-best-resale-value/
MY recollection of the percent difference is off, but the point still stands.
I’ve heard other studies of this and they postulated that the reason was the assumption that a yellow car would be better maintained as it was owned by someone who felt strongly enough about their car to choose an unpopular color. They also seem to be in fewer accidents. Yellow is the best color; I’ll never drive one.
My name is Buck…
I’m sure whoever is driving this has pockets full of magnetic green.
Having driven the car in the picture about 600 miles, I can assure you that it does not repel the ladies. When someone as ugly as I am can have 22-year-olds run across the street in Ann Arbor to ask for a ride, the color can’t be that bad.
Sure, but just imagine what they might have asked for if the car wasn’t yellow.
Thank you, Jack. Was the little tyke in the front seat? That’s got to be worth some curb appeal.
That really happened in Ann Arbor? I am saying this as someone who went to university there and generally women there cared nothing about cars no matter what they were. 3/4 of the girls there dads had enough money to buy 10 of these cars without blinking an eye. You sure you weren’t in Ypsilanti when this happened? lol
I’ve had three SLS loaners and they all pull tail like a donkey yo.
I don’t take the kid out of the neighborhood in any two-seater anymore.
This idiotic thread is the exact reason I don’t read comments here anymore.
Your caution after your MVC is understandable but I bet that the pride of Stuttgart does not have runof-the-mill safety cell.
Your caution after your MVC is understandable but I bet that the pride of Stuttgart does not have a run-of-the-mill safety cell.
The fact that this had to have happened whilst I was in school and I missed it disappoints me… but I’d have to concur with the commenter below — most of the girls I know/knew and have ‘known’ at school usually wouldn’t look twice at an SLS etc; girls usually didn’t care about expensive sports cars — and were really not that impressed by Range Rovers etc. everyone has them, or daddy could buy them 10. It’s either the yellow, or you Jack — that attracted the attention.
@VenomV12 Go Blue… your Michigan doesn’t sound very different than mine.
“Repellent?”
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/jackalope/pussywagon.jpg
Sixties and Seventies Ferraris look good in that shade of yellow.
My ears aren’t delicate. For your sake though, I hope you don’t talk like that around women.
Only if there is context, e.g. the PMY meme, or they say it first.
Ditto sixties and seventies Lamborghini’s as well.
Ditto my ears are similarly resilient, I’m sure the right car can override the use of feminist-riling talk.
Especially if said car is a sixties or seventies Ferrari/Lamborghini, in any color.
My favorite yellow was on the 2000 Dodge Ram with sport package. Yellow is one of those colors whose implementation is either one extreme or the other- “beautiful” or “terrible”
I find if the vehicle has pretty wild styling in the sheetmetal itself, yellow works.
Agreed. Yellow works with Dodge’s design language:
http://blog.caranddriver.com/bee-have-dodge-brings-back-charger-super-bee-again-resurrects-challenger-yellow-jacket/
I don’t know if it is the shade or what, but it is searing my eyes on this SLS.
Personally I think the yellow that the original came in would have worked better:
http://allcarcentral.com/Mercedes-Benz/mercedes-benz_300sl_gullwing_coupe_1957_Blackhawk_Museum_2007.jpg
I had a 2006 Ford Ranger in a similar shade of yellow (it was a leftover, and the only one that wasn’t either fully loaded or stripped). I thought it looked good in Yellow, and got occasional compliments.. almost always from guys, though. I also got pulled over all the time in it.
http://i1272.photobucket.com/albums/y390/mad-anthony/267075_651223545832_744095_o_zpsca8eecb2.jpg
Cool truck. Whenever I see a yellow pickup though, I’m reminded of the “Baywatch” truck: http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_98263-Ford-Ranger-2001.html
Is there a switch to turn off the passenger front airbag?
Modern cars use a weight sensor in the seat. And adjust the airbag’s deployment power based on the amount of weight.
I really like some yellows on some cars, but not this yellow on this car!
What if your kid is really fat?
A backpack with a couple of books in it trips the darn thing in my Outback.
As my avatar shows, I love me some yellow!
Most beautiful yellow car I ever saw was a Morgan Aero 8 done in Ferrari Fly Yellow. I find the Benz quite attractive in yellow FWIW.
Seriously, how many of us regular folk are going to be on the same side of a velvet rope as an SLS AMG Black? This stuff is automotive pornography that we might see once in our lifetimes at a car show. Unless you frequent Dubai, Hong Kong, or Monaco, the chances of seeing one of these in the wild is about zero. For the rest of us, we’ll soon get back to arguing the merits of diesel-powered Souls, buy-here-pay-here lot bargains, and whether Scion should exist.
I saw one once, along with a bunch of lambos on a gumball 3000 race. It was pretty surreal when they parked right next to my 94 f150 at a fast food place.
I have seen several here in CT One seems to be local the other had Mass plates mostly likely running from Boston to NY on 84. I drive 84 everyday and I see a fair number of expensive cars going from one city to the other. Funny thing there was a maclaren 12c at a cruise night the other night that one caught me off guard.
I saw the convertible version once driving through La Crosse, Wisconsin. Also an Aston Martin DB9 Volante and a Bentley.
I was absolutely flabbergasted to see a white SLS at the Naha airport last weekend, and I don’t think it had a “rental car” license plate either.
http://tinypic.com/r/e03h8i/8 <–crap picture quality
Not a Black Series, but it's a start. I love the styling of this car and am eager to see how the "baby SLS" turns out.
I never cared for the SLS, not since day 1 and still not now. Now the SLR on the other hand, that was a magnificent car.
Looks/aesthetics are subjective, but this car is an exercise in overstyled vulgarity, and looks like a Hyundai Sonata & Jaguar F Type mated, and had an offspring with a defective chromosome (the garish gullwing doors).
LMAO, that is a pretty good summary of what this car looks like. That was good.
Loling on an early Sunday morning at that comment. The original gull wing was built as a sports car to show off the best Mercedes had to to offer. Oh, this generation should have all the Mercedes supreme deluxe go fast, bleeding edge technological goodies thrown in. A part of me thinks the marketing folks cynically approved this car, not the engineers. A car that cost as much as a house in flyover states? Why rich guys with penis size issues will fight each other for the right to buy this thing! In yellow? Even more penis issues! Gouge them for accessories that cost more than a Korean car. A whale foreskin leather lined glove-box indeed! There’s a fine line between buying the absolute best and buying something stupidly expensive and showing what a dumbass you are.
I have to agree that the SLS has never done anything for me. I can’t imagine that the sales are particularly good compared to its competitors; I see plenty of Lambos, Ferraris, Bentleys and R8s in Dallas, but I’ve actually never seen an SLS.
This thing will house most of its competitors on a racetrack, no sweat. It’s stupidly easy to drive at tremendous speed. It’s basically a Viper.
On the negative side, my friend Kiki calls it “the Ace and Gary car”.
The SLS AMG Black series coupe was used as the safety car for this year’s edition of the Monaco Grand Prix.
Prior to the race the driver ran a few laps to warm up the tires and it acquitted itself quite well.
OH damn. The Ace and Gary car. Now that Kiki said that, it will always look that way to me. Osama better stay buried at sea, or this will get him.
This is soooo Ace & Gary.
Vanity plate would read ACE*GARY
This got me thinking of Saturday’s Richmond Cars & Coffee – for once, the guy who shows up with the McLaren (something current) got way overshadowed. Somebody else brought a perfectly restored 50’s Mercedes-Benz 300SL roadster. It was getting more notice than the Tesla parked next to it.