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

If you want to learn more about the Mercedes SL R230, this is your book! Last updated in March 2017, it covers its complete history, explains VIN/FIN and data card and offers a comprehensive buyer's guide. All this is accompanied by superb recent non-Daimler AG photos. These are some of the topics covered:

Development of the R230

The six- and eight-cylinder engines

A problematic SBC and superb ABC

The SL55 arrives

A new V6 and V12

The 2006 and 2008 facelift

The SL63 replaces the SL55

The SL65 and 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

Trouble shooting the vario-roof

R230 buyer’s guide

Which R230 should I buy

Technical specifications and production figures

This guide ends with a free e-book offer. Enjoy!

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.