We've tried it briefly on track, and liked it - but the SL 55 belongs on the open road. Does it still measure up? 👀
, and it was broadly favourable. I liked it. I know it doesn’t present with the gracefulness of some SLs of old, but that aside, this latest iteration certainly has some SLS-style presence without trying too hard to achieve it. From the comments, I’m not sure everyone agrees, but, as they say, you cannot please all of the people all of the time.
I mentioned in my track drive that the SL 55 didn’t have an awful lot of steering feel, and I can confirm that it still doesn’t. If anything, it's worse on the road. On track, there was a little chatter from the wheel in a straight line – just to give you a hint about what’s going on at the front – but back then there was some sense of the understeer building when attacking the turns. This time the steering was mute at all times.
What all this means is that you drive the SL 55 into turns with a healthy margin of error. If you deploy any other tactic other than the slow-in fast-out sort, then you might be braver than I am - but potentially stupider as well. Although here’s the thing: it’s definitely fast out. For a start, there’s the power and torque. As I mentioned, both feel colossal here, so Christ knows what the SL 63 will feel like with 585hp.
The way it rides is very AMG. What I mean by that is there’s too much lateral movement from the rear end when the suspension is at its softest – particularly at slower speeds. They all do that. So just like pretty much every AMG product I’ve driven in the recent past, you ignore Comfort and head straight to Sport, which tightens up the dampers and that reduces all the twerking. The skill AMG has is maintaining compliance.
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