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View Poll Results: Which one pleases you more aesthetically?
New facelifted SL looks better. 40 40.82%
Current one looks better. 58 59.18%
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Old 01-22-2008, 05:28 PM   #11
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Re: Facelifted or Pre-Facelifted Mercedes SL?
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Haha me too, love that movie and Roman Holiday.

As for SL, yeah the face lifted SL will look new for now, but 10 or 20 years down the line, which do you think will look better? My money is on the original.
Haven't seen Roman Holiday but will look into it

Off course the pre-facelifted will be the more handsome one in 20-30 but right now, today, I want the face lifted one.
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Old 01-22-2008, 05:50 PM   #12
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Re: Facelifted or Pre-Facelifted Mercedes SL?
The new one, much fresher and a much needed facelift for the SL. Nothing can stay for ever and however bueatiful the pre-facelift one is it needed to be freshened up with a half radical change
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Old 01-22-2008, 10:02 PM   #13
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Re: Facelifted or Pre-Facelifted Mercedes SL?
The important change to the appearance was not so much the lights, but rather, the width of the grille (to bring it in line with the new bolder 'Retro' detailing)-- the lights had to be changed because there wasn't enough room to keep them. These lights are a compromise.....obviously intended to appear related to the CLS' .....interestingly, the CLS' grille is a similar size to the current (Pre-face lifted) SL's.
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Old 01-23-2008, 09:53 PM   #14
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Re: Facelifted or Pre-Facelifted Mercedes SL?
I voted for the pre FL. However, the front-on shot looks ok.
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Old 01-24-2008, 01:56 AM   #15
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Re: Facelifted or Pre-Facelifted Mercedes SL?
As much as I love the old one, I'll take the new one please. The SL finally has an idenity of it's own and no longer shae
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Old 01-24-2008, 02:02 AM   #16
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As much as I love the old one, I'll take the new one please.

My thought exactly. Can't wait to see it in person.

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Re: Facelifted or Pre-Facelifted Mercedes SL?
^ I think I'd rather wait for the R231
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My thought exactly. Can't wait to see it in person.

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I'm with you.

I haven't even see it IRL, but i'm sure i'll fall on my @$$ when i see it...

Yes, new one for me.

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^ I think I'd rather wait for the R231
I can't imagine how that one will look. We went through this same thing with the previous CL vs the new one, wondering how Mercedes would ever, if they could iprove upon the old one, yet they did. So we'll see. We have about 3 more years of the R230 Version 3 to go.

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Re: Facelifted or Pre-Facelifted Mercedes SL?
I am envisaging something very GM-like

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