Pics of my SLK 55 AMG

[saadie]

lol ... this tread is going great ...
thx fer the pics TT .. sensational like always

@ Shinri_Shiogami .. sell everything .. bu a lambo lol jk

[Yablokov]

rofl @ TT scoring himself car rides!

you da man TT!!! >=D

[955TT]

Beautiful!!!! Love AMG's. I had an opportunity to drive the SLK 55 at the AMG Challenge back in March in Las Vegas. That car is very nimble and easy to whip around the track. Enjoy and be careful!!!

[Shinigami]

Thanks

I'll try to be careful, even if it is hard to resist not pushing the car to the limits. Unfortunately today, some chick in a black Seat nearly rammed into while she changed lanes NEXT to me on the highway WITHOUT using the blinkers...

I was pi$$ed, and I think she got embarrassed/scared, as she began to drive real fast. Got flashed 150 on a radar (in an 80 zone). Too bad for her... honestly, she deserved it, I have no respect for people who don't know how to use their blinkers. Absolutely no respect. If you change lanes, you must use your blinkers. And if you do it, you always check if there's a car next to you (even in your blind spot). shame... shame...

she probably won't be driving for a while...

[TT]

Considering how concerned your was by little insects on your bumper, I can barely imagine what you would do to somebody who would hit your car

[SPEEDKILLAR]

Originally Posted by TT Considering how concerned your was by little insects on your bumper, I can barely imagine what you would do to somebody who would hit your car

But I do understand Shinri's point of view, I am DISGUSTED by people who don't use their turning signals the proper way or don't use them at all.

My best friend use to drive like that, and every time I was with him in the car I cursed him to death and gave him lonnnnnnnnggg speeches untill he started using them, mission accomplished 8)

[Shinigami]

TT: rofl, yeah, I can be like that. Doesn't mean I don't (ab)use my car, but some things do tick me off a bit

haha, I wouldn't wanna know it'd be like if I got a REAL supercar :p

which reminds me, I was at the Ferrari dealer in Lausanne, and they said they'd change my 55 for this 360 they had in the showroom, like right away. I was like "really?". But apparently the 360 came from a car 'loaner' place, and when I looked at the front bumper and front lights, it seemed like the bumper had been resprayed. The black rubber around the head lights had red paint on them and it just didn't seem to fit in just right. I wonder if the car had been in a small fender bender?

The ferrari dealer denied it all, but... it just got me wondering.

I wouldn't wanna buy a Ferrari that had been in an accident :\

Still, pretty car, one of my favorite

[ARMAN]

Holy jump! Havent checked this thread for a while, glad that you Shinri_Shiogami enjoy beeing here, the best place to be on the net IMO

And TT actually drove your car! :shock: Thats fabulous to hear, and as I can se... read he enjoyed it alot

[Sick Boy]

I like how the old SLK was a girl's car and the new one is a properly grown up sports car.

[yeckmohr]

Wow nice car.
My mother gets a SLK 280 these days.

I didn't drive this new 7gear automatic before, i will see if it works well.

Greets from a merc driver

[twboy1999]

sorry to bring up this old topic
but i will have my own thread in a couple of weeks time, since i dont have pictures

anywho.. myfriend picked up slk55amg couple of days ago
i spent some time driving it.. here are some of my impression

the exterior---even thought it is more aggresive lokoing thatn the 350..but still it is abit girly looking to me

interior---the leather is nice, and the swade is nice,, but some part of the interior feels cheap, for example the upper dash boards

now.. here are the driving impression... the car is very compact, and the mirror is really bothering me.. is blocking my view.... with the top up, is hard to see the blind spot..

the acceration seems decent..i dunno.. the car still break in.. but i did WOT till 4500RPM

the brakes are just have the most terrible feel.. is on and offf.... u put almost the same pressure, it will slow down slowly at first,, and then suddenly it bit ur ass off.. it suddenly stops really fast.... really bad feel to it

the 7 speed auto transmiison now---it is not as smooth as i thoguht it would be...afterall benz pretty much only make auto transmission.. there are 3 modes.. Comfort, Standard, and manual.... standard is not that smooth IMO.... manual shifteing speed is decent for a auto transmiison,, adn most of the time it will blip throttle for u... but shifting speed is still no where need the SMG

now the best part is the handling.. this car really handle good, and cornering hard u are still really flat.. not much body rolling if at all

overall a good car...i will put some pix up in a couple of weeks..

[Shinigami]

You said the brakes are either on or off? I don't get that feeling with my car. I can gently brake the car if I just slightly push the brake pedal back, and I have complete control of how much braking pressure I want to set. Maybe I'm just used to it...

What you might have been experiencing is just the standard MB brake pedal being set way forward compared to the acceleration pedal, and when you switched from one pedal to the other, you brought your foot down too quickly. I used to do this a bit in the beginning resulting in what I thought was very rough deceleration.

Obviously shifting is not SMG like since it's a pure automatic, not a clutches manual. So you shouldn't have expected as much, and S mode is jumpier since it will try to keep revs high as much as possible. However, the MB automatic gearbox takes a few days to learn the drivers driving habit, which means that once it's gotten accustomed to the way you drive it, it adapts itself to provide power and comfort for that type of driving that the owner has forced upon it. You'd have to drive the car a few hours everyday for a few days to see the difference. Usually by the third day you find the car has moved into a comfort-zone territory.

Sometimes I want to drive mine more agressively, so I do frequent hard accelerations revving it at 3-4k rpm on 2nd, 3rd and 4th, which in the end means that the car begins to turn into a more responsive ride (throttle wise).

You really need to lower that top if you want to experience the convertible feel, and when you do that, you lose any problems associated with rear visibility. But I agree visibility is not as good as in a standard car. The rear window is even smaller then in the previous SLK, but I still find that the view on the rear is better then in a Miata, S2000 or Z4 (using the cloth tops), can't expect too much from a convertible, unless you then add on the optional hardtop.

As far as 'girly' goes, I seem to have experienced quite the contrary when I've spoken with people either in real-life or on forums. The AMG has a definitely more masculine look according to 95% of the people I've spoken with. But that's all opinions, and most people who did consider it girly, simply said so because it's an SLK, and the old SLK was quite feminine (not that it bothered me at all, I got plenty of chicks coming up to when I drove that car, because they liked how it looked).

btw: you can get a full leather interior for the SLK which fixes the dash issue you talked about, but at over $10k, it's not really worth it IMO... The new 030 performance package even adds carbon fiber to the interior. But I'm not too fond of that.

[twboy1999]

shinri--
the brake feel is not wehre the pedal is position.. is just that.. is kind of hard to brake smooth.. it will suddenly brake harder.. maybe all the amgs are like that. brake by wire technology? from what i heard, there wont be braek by wire in the next generation of benz

i like the exhaust sound.. only if it was a bit louder..^^

yup.. the visibiliy is alot better when the tops is down.. actually excellent,, easy to see blind spot and stuff

thanx to my friend. i have been basically the co-driver of the car
i will try to get some video of it, soon.. but here are some quick pics of it

these pic are taken from somone on mbcanada.com





here are the pictures i took myself

[Shinigami]

Does this friend of yours also frequent mbnz.org or mbworld.org? Both have forums for the new SLK and are quite active (especially over here: http://www.mbnz.org/forums/forums/forum-view.asp?fid=27 ).

[Shinigami]

Originally Posted by twboy1999 shinri-- the brake feel is not wehre the pedal is position.. is just that.. is kind of hard to brake smooth.. it will suddenly brake harder.. maybe all the amgs are like that. brake by wire technology?

hmmm, maybe we just have a different conception of smoothness. A 350 brakes a lot less hard, simply because the brakes are nowhere near as powerful as in the AMG, where they indeed are quite good at stopping the car. But it could also be a question of practice and habit.

I know I'm able to bring the car to a gentle stop, but mileage may vary. Foot angle, the position you push the brake pedal to, and so on can all affect how greatly the car decided to decelerate. I personally feel that there is no 'sudden' jump in brake feel when pushing down on the pedal at a steady rate. Perhaps your friend has overinflated tires, or needs to realign/redjust the brakes. Or perhaps they're just too new... Do they squeal at all when gently braking? All AMG's seem to do this for the first few hundred or thousand kilometers when they're still new... But then it settles down. A few good emergency stops should grind those brakes down to evenness (and possibly get rid of the sudden jerky braking as well).

If he can, maybe he should test drive someone elses 55 just to see if it's normal (there's plenty of 55 owners on the forum link I mentioned above). But it could also be normal and just your perception of the stopping power