MERCEDES-BENZ, The modern SL cars, The R230 : From the SL280 to the SL65 AMG Black Series - Bernd S. Koehling

MERCEDES-BENZ, The modern SL cars, The R230

From the SL280 to the SL65 AMG Black Series

By: Bernd S. Koehling

Paperback | 10 November 2015

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If you search for a car that can hold its own, when parked next to a Porsche 911 Cabrio, don't look any further. Because the Mercedes SL R230 is regarded by many as the best looking SL that has left Stuttgart after the famous 300SL Gullwing. Last updated in March 2017 this 240-page book tells you everything about the car's history, it also explains VIN/FIN and data card and offers a comprehensive buyer's guide. All this is accompanied by great recent non-Daimler AG photos. These are some of the topics covered:
  • Development of the R230
  • Safety standards
  • The six- and eight-cylinder engines
  • A problematic SBC and superb ABC
  • The SL55 arrives
  • A new V6 and V12
  • The 2006 facelift
  • The 2008 facelift
  • The SL63 replaces the SL55
  • The SL65
  • The SL65 Black Series
  • The special editions, from the 2003 Mille Miglia to the 2010 Night Edition
  • The tuning scene, from Brabus to RENNtech
  • The VIN/FIN explained
  • The data card explained
  • Details of the various COMAND systems
  • Option packages
  • Trouble shooting the vario-roof
  • What is my R230 worth
  • R230 buyer's guide
  • Which R230 should I buy
  • Technical specifications and production figures

  • This guide ends with a free book offer. Enjoy reading!

    Why is this book not available as hard cover? Even today with modern digital printing services available, books with many color photos are expensive to produce. This book comes with some 200 high quality photos, most of them in color, and would cost retail as hardcover version over US$ 80 (or the corresponding amount in £ or ), which the author finds excessive. That is why the choice to offer the more reasonable to produce soft cover option. Thank you for your understanding.

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