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The SLC replaces the SLK in Mercedes’ line-up.
It’s got a new, more efficient badge, facelifted and rebranded
rather than all-new car with more safety and infotainment kit than the old SLK.
The new SLC also drops the 5,5-litre V8 and replaces it with
a 3,0-litre twin-turbo V6 with AMG sports exhausts which delivers 270 kW, 40 kW
less than the SLK 55 with a revised AMG suspension and claims a 0-100 km/h time
of 4,7 seconds. The new AMG model will be called the SLC43.
Initially with four-car range, with two 2.0-litre
four-cylinder petrol engines, a 2.1-litre four-cylinder diesel and a 3.0-litre
V6 petrol in the range-topping AMG version. The SLC 200 and 300 have 2.0-litre
engines with 184 and 245bhp respectively, while the SLC 250d develops 204bhp.
The twin-turbo V6 of the AMG version has 367bhp with 9G-tronic transmission as
standard on all UK models.
The SLC 180 and 200 will come with a six-speed manual
gearbox with the option of the 9G-tronic transmission. All other models above
this will have the automatic as standard.
It employs the same ‘vario-roof’ folding hard-top as its
predecessor, which opens and close at speeds up to 25mph. 335 litres of
bootspace, apparently the biggest in the segment.
Prices will be announced in mid-January, when the SLC order
books open.
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