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Officially the car is going to be called the Mercedes SLS when it is revealed at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month. Photo Gallery
The back-from-the-dead Mercedes-Benz 'gullwing' coupe is not even real yet, but already there are pointers to a convertible.
But what do you call a gullwing without its gullwing doors? Officially the car is going to be called the Mercedes SLS anyway when it is revealed in production form at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month, ahead of sales from the first half of 2010.
There have been many pictures of the SLS, including some official leaks from Benz headquarters in Germany, but now Carparazzi has caught a car which is likely to become the SLS convertible.
It is pictured at a small mining town in Nevada, USA during a trip which saw three SLS test cars - two gullwing coupes and the single convertible - also pass by Monterey in California.
Carparazzi believes the California sweep could have been a press tease by Benz, as the three cars stopped briefly outside a hotel where motoring journalists were attending another launch event.
The latest pictures show Mercedes is slowly removing the camouflage over the SLS, with more of the lights, grille and air intakes now on view. The convertible pictures reveal a powered soft top roof, not a metal cabrio roof, with conventional doors in place of the gullwings.
European sources say the convertible version of the SLS is at least two years away from sale, although it could easily follow the gullwing coupe with a motor show tease, most likely at the Detroit Motor Show in January.
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