Modern SL- MERCEDES-BENZ, The modern SL cars, The R230

Bernd S Koehling

• 10 november 2015
• 9781519225146

Samenvatting:

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.