I hope so because my initial reaction to the facelift was that the pictures of the front were a bad chop.

It does look better in these pictures but I still definitely prefer the pre-facelifted one. The shape of the front lights is really weird, not beautiful at all. The grille also looks "empty" with only one horizontal bar. The interior is brilliant though.

I definitely agree. The "forced" design is very apparent in the pictures. The SL was originally designed to be round and sleek. Now when they've changed the front it looks too massive and doesn't fit with the more round rear. Even the front lights have this duality, they are partly round and partly very angular.

Ok so the exterior is a disappointment but what about the new gearbox. Any info? Is it really a double-clutch gearbox?

I'm severly disappointed,they ruined the best looking roadster in the world,and what's up with the hideous fans in the headrest? my god

Give me the Pre FL please!

The current MB SL is one of the most beautiful cars in the world.

The facelift is NOT!!

To ruin such a beautiful car... I think I'm gonna cry now...

All the reactions are expected. Hard to accept any change to a car like the SL initially, but I think this facelift will work. Especially when seen in person.

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Oh LORD NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I was hoping those pics were chops, not real!

All I can say is that they ruined my favourite Benz!

I still cant get over this! Im hoping this is a bad dream and I will wake up to find out those lights arent for real! The SL is by far the most beautiful/elegant roadster on the market, but this is just disgusting! Love the rear however.

Is Chris Bangle now heading Merc's design team?

They turned one of the most beautiful cars in their lineup into a monstrosity...nice job MB...

I think MB have gone to far this time. Everything is out of proportion now. The front front grille is just to big in my opinion. This car use to be so sleek and sexy now it's a mangle between boxy and bloated and the front and skinny at the rear. It looks like they alny concentrated on a redesigned front and glued it to the old rear. I'm really disappointed with this considering some of the spyshots looked incredible.



That is a nice shot that gives me some hope that in real life this car will be a stunner but I don't think it is a well designed replacement for the purity of design that was the pre-facelift SL. It just looks like they tried to do to much. The CLS facelift was a good one because they mde it different enough without ruining the car. This facelift IMO has ruined some of the great features that made the SL such a beautiful road car. I will wait until I see it in real life however before I start screaming out for the death of th designer!

The interior looks very good except for the monstrosity that is those huge headrests. WHat are they and why do they have to look like something out a modern day boeing jet cockpit. They had want to be comfortable and ridicously safe to look like that.

Overall, disappointed with the FL so far but I will wait until I see it in person to make my final judgement.