Even though it may not exactly look like it, but the contemporary Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG is in fact the spiritual successor to the German firm's original 300 SL in both 'Gullwing' Coupe (built from 1954 to 1957) and Roadster (from 1957 to 1963) forms.
Slimane Toubal, a professional clay artist from France who has worked with several automakers around the world including Audi, Honda and more recently, at PSA Peugeot-Citroen's China office, used his free time to create his own vision of what a modern-day 300 SL should look like.
The result is a design study that is more heavily influenced by the styling of the original 1950s 300 SL compared to the current SLS AMG.
Toubal penned both a coupe with the classic 'Gullwing' style doors and a roadster model, which unlike the soft-top SLS AMG, uses a retractable hardtop.
Feel free to browse through the photos below for a more detailed look at the designs and then head over to the comments to tell us what you think about the 300 SL concepts.
Design Credits: Slimane Toubal
12 Comments:
LOL WTF? What's with them asian girls in the background?
Took me a few minutes googleing but I found them! It's a Korean girl band called "Girls' Generation".
That Slimane Toubal guy is either 14 or he has some weird fetish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls%27_Generation
He has good taste regardless his age.
NO
I know - they have way to much clothes on for an official press picture
Looks like a badgers arse... that hasn't been cleaned properly. Actually, it's almost as bad as this comment.
Honestly probably the one of the only cars that I think looks better when it's Convertible than when it's hard topped. Aside from some of the pictures, some of which are pretty weird, I like the car and the way it looks. Would like to see how it performs and if it compares the current SLS AMG
Slim man two balls did it good.
Looks like a students work at best.
Wow. Another home run in design for MB. I'm sure it will cost over $100k and be see in the rap videos before long.
If you are reading this and are a 1% hedgefund dude buy me one of these, thanks.
There are certainly some nice surfaces as you would expect from a professional clay modeller. The 300 SL is an automotive icon and is hard to better, I think the SLS is a superb modern interpretation and the points where I think this attempt fails is it is too beefy in the wheel arch department the lighting arrangements are too thin it losing it's face. If you look at the newly restored original 300 SL concept car it is a very pure very simple shape. The problem with modern car design is because more shapes and edges can be included the usually are! Design is at it's very best when it is pure and unfussy. Clearly the above effort is not bad but doesn't offer anything new that the SLS has not achieved more successfully.
AMASING........
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