Mercedes right after motor show opening in Geneva has started the next round of tests of the new cars among which there was also model SLK.

New generation Mercedes SLK will arrive to the first owners only in 2012, however, engineers already now test model, and paparazzi observe of over-the-road tests with cameras in hands.

Radical changes neither in external shape, nor in technical making cars to wait it is not necessary. The roadster still will be double, to have a rear wheel drive and a rigid roof, the truth, on hearings, the car can get the second row of armchairs. The ex-terrier of the car will lose the well-known pointed nose in style ะค1, but the design should not suffer from it considerably, the blessing model possesses numerous remembered lines.

To roadster SLK will be accessible not only new gasoline engines, but also the diesel motor, informs Autocar. It is supposed, that the car will be equipped with the 4-cylinder petrol motor in volume of 2.2 l power about 200 h.p. which will allow it to be accelerated with 0 to 100 km/hour for 6 seconds Probably, to buyers SLK will offer also V-shaped “six” power of 476 h.p.




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