humvet

I was looking at a Mercedes 500SL before buying a vert. Love the lines on the SL, thought it was at the top of the food chain for cruising the strip with the top down. Has great creature comforts and gadgets. But, I liked the C6's torque, price performance, handling and heritage enough to stay with the American icon. What do you folks think?

RRVettes

You made the right choice!!

Tom_Slick

Duh!!

iridelow

BENZ is the car to get IF..... you give your ***** away before you get to the dealership.....Vette all the way!!!!!!!!! and keep the ole nutts.

mpuzach

Between the C6 convertible and the current generation SL (all iterations), there are no bad choices. The SL550 isn't the rocket that the Corvette is but it's still a superb machine. Of course, if you move up to the SL600 or either of AMG versions (SL55 or SL65), you're talking major butt kicker.

The Clevite Kid

Did you also ask this question on the MB forum ?

shawn h.

The SL550 is a beauitiful car with a nice interior(needs to be nicer for $90K though), but so is a Conv. Corvette. There is really no substitute w/the way a Corvette feels and drives.

Stay w/the Corvette....besides here in LA, Corvette Convertibles are much more rare than an SL where they are a Dime a Dozen(if not more).

Wayne O

I drove BMWs for about 20 years. I also (briefly) looked at a Mercedes roadster right about when the C6 first came out. BMWs and Mercedes are obviously fine cars, however, I prefer the styling of the C6 and neither BMW or MB have the 'thrill factor' that the C6 does.

NMBRLDY

You're on the Corvette forum; of course the correct choice is the C6!

humvet

The Mercedes I have driven always feel a bit heavy but solid. The C6 feels light and the torque is what I REALLY like. I can't think of another car that has that neck snapping grab factor!

C7GrandSport

I think before you drop 100 large for a car you should know it's name (SL550). Good thing you got the vetteCor, I mean Corvette.

falco84

Are you talking about the early last gen SLs? Or the later model SL500s?

That body style, as a hard top, is striking. If the seating position wasn't the worst of any car in history, I would have to find a way to have one...as a winter car!

humvet

I was looking at a slightly used 2004 SL500 at the time I was car shopping and ultimately bought the 2005 vert. I'll have my lawyer read over my posts next time as not to confuse the **** among us.

RBYCC

I bought my 2006 C6 1LT coupe after consideration of a Merc AMG SL55.

Why the decision to go for the C6?
Incredible bang for the buck and this is coming from one whose C6 shares the garage with a AMG G55, AMG C43 and a TurboTechnics twin turbo 300CE....
Also where I live SL's are common, Vettes are not

First purchase of an American car since I bought a Vette new in 1975....

MagicMtnDan

They're two very different cars even if they're both two-seaters. The Benz is a GT and the Vette a sports car. The SL500 or the newer SL550 is a great looking car and having the convertible hardtop is fantastic. It's stylish, heavy (overweight) and is essentially a two-door S class though it's not as large as their CL model which is an S-class with only two door.

If you want a sports car you buy the Corvette. If you want a Grand Touring car you buy either the SL or the Vette.

PS: my wife's dream car is the SL550

convt99

I totaled my C5 and started thinking about a slower car. I looked at the Benz when it first came out. I also looked at the Jag XKR vert. The girl at the Benz dealership said it was a 4 year wait. Long story short I bought the jag on Saturday. She calls me on Monday and said a DR. decided against the Benz and it was available. I rushed down and bought it for $ 97K. The used car manager offered me $ 125K at delivery. This was a limited edition Designio, one of 2000 made, the fourth one in Texas. I said I want to drive it a while and see if i liked it. The color and looks were off the hook cool. They were going for $ 135K on Ebay. I did a shoot out and the XKR won by a huge margin. I sold the Benz for $ 120K a few weeks later. I never made money on a new car before. The SL was MUCH slower, stereo was not as good and although comfy, not fun to drive like the XKR and had no back seat. The C6 came out and I held out as long as I could. This Vette with base suspension rides as nice as both of those cars and is 10 times more fun to drive IMO.

Chipps

The Corvette and the Mercedes-Benz are what they are. You can see the difference in the price. Both cars are well made for the price they cost. As someone said earlier one is a sports car and one is a GT. The other major difference is the dealership. This is also part of the price difference. It is like going to different universes when I go to the Mercedes-Benz dealer versus the Chevrolet dealer. But the cars and the dealerships should be different at the prices each charge.

knkali

first-- the sl 500 is kinda small inside.

2nd-- The Sl500 is a nice car no doubt but it isnt as fast as the C6 IMO

3rd--too$$$

LS2-Zomb!e

saplumr

I have owned (3) E Class and (1) ML over the last few years. While I did for the most part love the vehicles, MB is not the most reliable and quality is "not" job one.