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Fintail - not easy to push for too low a price because the SL's are selling like hotcakes in this area right now. Dealer has a diamond white with designo sand interior and he wasn't sure if it was spoken for or not. I'll know tomorrow. It has the amg sport option, distronic, and all options except ABC and magic sky.
Nice colors there - I don't know if I have ever seen a magic sky here. My local dealer gets a lot of AMG models, which might not fly off the shelf at 160K+.
I am not a fan of matte finishes either - actually more difficult to maintain than a normal car, and I think it is a fad.
http://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/benz/design/designo
Here's a pix of the diamond white and tuscany beige interior. The carpetting, dash and part of the sides are black.
http://tinypic.com/r/20r5udl/6
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http://tinypic.com/r/2e2ed5z/6
A shot of the diamond white
http://tinypic.com/r/1z2kr44/6
http://tinypic.com/r/11c432t/6
Both cars
http://tinypic.com/r/29lcso0/6
BTW - both colors are limited edition. The graphite needs to be seen in person to really appreciate it and is spectacular with the platinum white interior. The white with tuscany is as classic as it gets. This MB dealer really specializes in high end MB's. He had a few S-class designos as well and the cars the owner owns are unbelievable. I will try to snap some photos of them when I go back on Thursday. He must have a dozen of the most classic cars you'll ever see. He also had a few SL65's that were already sold.
Any thoughts on the color combos?
Tough choice ! Keep us posted.
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http://tinypic.com/r/2a9blvd/6
Platinum white - very good representation of what it really looks like. I'm afraid of soiling it with jeans. It's also beautiful with the black contrasts. But I like the burl wood over the black ash wood.
http://tinypic.com/r/2d8mjp2/6
I'm leaning toward the diamond white and tuscany interior. It has a real italian design flair and I hardly see an SL in white. I see a lot of them in black, silver and designo mocha black (which is a brownish black). I also have never seen one in graphite. I've seen them in the standard gray and in a shadow gray which is similar to the graphite but not as rich.
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That would be my color choice. If I bought a beauty like that I would only take on trips out on back country roads. I would be afraid to take it where people might open a door into it. Just keep it in the garage with a dust cover. I saw one this morning and they are strikingly beautiful.
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I know what you are talking about with the graphite...It looks much better in person than a photo...Hope all works out to your satisfaction, and just because you may end up with two white, or three, YOU would only be in one at a time....On second thought it may be too many white ones....The gray one may fill the bill particularly if you dont use it all the time in rain and sludge Tony
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The sales guy put the the two whites side by side so that I could assess the interiors. They were both identical in equipment and price. If I went with the white I'd have taken the designo tuscany. It was the richer color for the interior and matched up the best with the burl walnut trim.
Here's some pix
http://tinypic.com/r/29ljps7/6
http://tinypic.com/r/33kg5ja/6
http://tinypic.com/r/i27pr7/6
Here's the whites (Tuscany interior is on the right) in the showroom. The tuscany is a bit darker than the sand and more exotic looking in person. Very Italian look but I already have two whites and that graphite is a head turner. We drove the graphite one and at a traffic light a kid on a bike looked at me and said "Nice car".
http://tinypic.com/r/eir2tz/6
That is a fine dealer showroom---largest I have ever seen---with what appears to be a superb inventory....We have a big dealership down here, but nothing to compare from what I saw in your picture.....Good Luck with the car, and as I just washed the Audi today, the Zano(sp) product is something I highly recommend you do now while it is new....The paint on my car looks like the day I took delivery....Thanks for sharing with us Tony
Tony - a fabulous dealership. They have so many cars on that showroom floor. You'd be hardpressed to find a model MB doesn't have. They have several E-class coupes on the floor too and that car would have been where I'd have gone for lesser money. Plus you'll find S-class cars and CLS and even E's with designo interiors. You rarely see one such car like that in other dealerships. The owner orders higher end features in his cars than any dealership around. In the warehouse I sat in an S65 and an SL63 and even a CL. Best lux dealership I've ever seen. Ray Catena Lexus is also very good but this dealership in in another world.
Here's the interior differences between the the designo sand and designo tuscany beige if anyone liked those colors.
Sand:
http://tinypic.com/r/14xfjbn/6
Tuscany;
http://tinypic.com/r/fn5sur/6
Here's one other shot of the graphite I took. Notice how the car's design features and lines stand out so well in this color. They get lost in too dark of a color and don't show as well in too light of a color. The contrast to the white interior is also beautiful. BTW - those are the AMG wheels.
http://tinypic.com/r/68fx1i/6
Thanks everyone for the good wishes.
Fin - I saw a matte finish on an E-class in the showroom. It's nice to look at once or twice only because it's so different. But I'd never want to own one that had a matte finish. it looks like it belongs on an AMG car if you like that type of a finish. But it's definitely not for me.
Tony - if you go MB than just check their site and click on specials. If you do that now you'll see the deals on the S, SL, CLS, ML etc. Whatever you get when you build a car and then use the payment estimator to get lease prices is a deal that any dealer will beat. The specials have to be offered by all dealers and they are always lease deals as far as I know. In the end I'm doing a one payment deal on this car and while it lists out at $126k the average price on a monthly basis (when I spread that payment over the life of the lease) is $90 a month cheaper than I got on an $88K LS and both deals were no money down. When MB deals, they really deal.
I haven't taken the car yet. I just deposited it. I'll take possession in the next 10 days as I'm awaiting a check from my business once our audit is finalized so that I don't disturb other money that is tied up or make my checking account too tight.
2013 LX 570 2016 LS 460
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The Edmunds review describes the car very well from my driving experience:
http://www.edmunds.com/mercedes-benz/sl-class/2013/#fullreview
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