Remember those slightly-out-of-whack design renderings for a retro-modern Mercedes-Benz 300SL Panamericana? Yeah, forget about them - this goes one better.

German company Gullwing GmbH builds these reproduction Mercedes 300SLs, but with a twist - while the body and cabin are period-correct, almost everything under the skin is modernised. Airconditioning? It’s got it. Powerful disc brakes? You [...]

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Mercedes is already busily working away on an all-new version of the 300SL in the form of the SLS AMG Gullwing, so what’s this one all about then?

Gullwing-America Company founder Arturo Alonso decided that the classic styling of the original 300SL was too good to part with and has announced the creation of a retro-inspired [...]

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Oh dear. We were hoping it wouldn’t turn out like this, but true to his form Japanese clothing tycoon Nigo has defiled yet another super-rare automobile.

A couple of weeks ago we reported that Nigo had ordered AMG to drop a six-litre V8 into a 300SL Gullwing. That’s applecart-upsetting news right there, but we were cool [...]

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Yeah, you heard me. The classic, the iconic, the hyper-glamorous 1954 300SL gullwing is in the midst of being re-imagined by that most eccentric of car buffs, Nigo, and a modern fire-breathing AMG V8 is on the ingredients list.

Nigo, for those that don’t know, is the founder of Japanese clothing company A Bathing Ape (BAPE, [...]

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Mercedes-Benz has spilled the beans on its upcoming SLS AMG Coupe, which has - during the rumours and development stages - been referred to as the SLC or the modern day Gullwing. The Gullwing reference has stuck ever since spy shots showed the SLS was fitted with the same gullwing doors as seen on the [...]

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