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Last Auto Account – Mercedes Launches New AMG ML- and SL- Models Forget gas prices, bread-and-butter woes, and the new era of conservatism…if alone for one beatific Sunday drive a week. Today Mercedes-Benz presents its latest AMG high-cube monsters, the 2009 ML63 AMG 10th Anniversary, the 2009 ML 63 AMG Achievement Studio, and the 2009 SL 65 Black Alternation at California’s acclaimed Laguna Seca ..Last Auto account – Enlarge Photo

Forget gas prices, bread-and-butter woes, and the new era of conservatism…if alone for one beatific Sunday drive a week. Today Mercedes-Benz presents its latest AMG high-cube monsters, the 2009 ML63 AMG 10th Anniversary, the 2009 ML 63 AMG Achievement Studio, and the 2009 SL 65 Black Alternation at California’s acclaimed Laguna Seca raceway.

The AMG-tuned ML SUVs affection AMG’s latest hand-built masterpiece, the 6.3-liter (actually 6.2-liter) V-8 featuring Mercedes’ new four-valve-per-cylinder arch and acquiescent both batty high-rpm application (510, to be exact) and shove-in-the-back low rpm torque. The second-gen ML belvedere is a abundant home for the new AMG V-8, getting lighter on its anxiety than the first-gen ML that acclimated a abundant truck-inspired ladder frame. The above car was abundant for off-roading, but abstract for the burghal assignment the car a lot of generally sees.

If 510 horses don’t affect you, footfall up to the SL 65 AMG Black Series. Its 6.0-liter twin-turbo V-12 offers…brace yourself…670 application and abundant torque (738 lb-ft) to tow an airstream or two up the abutting abundance range. The Black alternation focuses on lighter weight abstracts and top performance, and its new AMG SPEEDSHIFT PLUS five-speed automated gearbox employs double-clutch technology for lightning-speed accouterment and no torque advocate to sap ability delivery. A new coilover abeyance and revised council accessory affiance active administration and quick acknowledgment as able-bodied as managing a adventure ride of 3.8 abnormal to 62 mph.

Neither of these cars will get you actual abundant mpg at all. And adapt for a annealed gas auto tax to go forth with an even steeper acquirement price. But with gluttonous interiors and astonishing performance, their fpg (fun-per-gallon) is acceptable unparalleled. Buy a Prius and a scooter for account duty, and conceivably the environmentalists will not bake your abode afterwards you bang accomplished them in a agitating barrage of affronted V-8, or the jet-engine buzz of AMG’s twin-turbo twelve. Hey, I can dream, right?–Colin Mathews

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