Did you ever ask why the SL is called SL ?
SL was originally for the German words "Sehr Leicht" (Very Light). Everybody knows that they actually are not very light and when the cars came to market the meaning was changed to "Sport Leicht" (Sport light).

 

Thank you. My son asked me, just today, what SL meant.

 

Mine weighs a heavy 4600 lbs or so wet with no one in it. No adjective or adverb will change that. When my car dies, all they gotta do is weld a chain to it and, viola, a ship anchor.

SL = Sweet Ride in the Japanese (Swreet Lide)

 

I've a 1004 SL55 and they are still 4319 lbs.

PS: How do you get the 'r' in japanese sweet ? 甘い ?

 

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and about the SLR?

 

Man, you're going to have a long wait ... probably. No one knows what happened to Horsepower. He went riding off one day like Shane, into the sunset, and that was it. Gone. He must have sold all his road-rocket supercars and bought a Ford Taurus and a Mazda pickup.

 

Hi Lugnut,
back again...sometimes I've to travel around the world to earn some money to spend it again on cars....
I actually was in Japan but could not check the spelling on 'sweet'.
To answer the SLR question:
S Sport
L Leicht (light)
R Rennversion (Raceversion)

 

Some add ons for other models and brands:
CL Coupe Leicht
SL Sportlich Leicht
SLK Sportlich Leicht Kurz
CLK Coupe Leicht Kurz
SLR Sportlich Leicht Rennversion
G Gelaendewagen
GT Grand Tourismo
LS Limousine
GTI Grand Tourismo Injection
GL Grand Luxus
TDI Turbo Diesel Direkt Injection
S Sport
GTD Grand Tourismo Diesel
GSI Grand Sport Injection
GTE Grand Tourismo Einspritzer (German Version)

 

uaw!!!

perfect!
really interesting!