Mercedes-Benz SLS-Class 2010 Video Review

It's the doors. It's all about the doors. Say anything you like about the Mercedes-Benz SLS, from the way it looks, to the way it goes, to its soaring $450,000 pricetag, but once you open the doors any conversation stops. And jaws drop.

And that's why the SLS will always be known as the Gullwing.

From the first instant you see the doors open you where the nickname comes from, even if you don't know that Mercedes also had a coupe called the Gullwing back in the 1950s. The original is such a landmark car that Lindsay Fox, probably Australia's most avid car collector, has a string of Gullwings in his Melbourne museum. And he has also ordered a new SLS . . .

Read the full Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Gullwing 2010 review.