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With an aggressive looking cockpit, a 571-hp engine and two gullwing doors, you may think that the 2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG can probably take flight. Well, it just did… almost.

Here you can see the official Press Release:

Between the 6th and 16th of October 2009 the Mercedes-Benz Museum will have another attraction to show: the new Gullwing, which had its world premiere just recently at the Frankfurt International Motor Show, will land 42 metres up on the museum’s roof terr…

I hope you already have a view on the s400 of last post, Great Ride, Difficult Brakes, Good Big-Car Fuel Economy.

And on the eve of the Frankfurt Auto Show, Mercedes-Benz supplies this peek under the skin of the S 500 plug-in hybrid concept it will unveil there.

The see-though shows the location of the rear-mounted lithium-ion battery pack, the charging port on the right rear flank, the regenerative braking system (and could that be a pair of in-hub wheel motors in the rear?) and…

At the opening of the press events for the Frankfurt Motor Show, Dieter Zetsche, the chairman of Mercedes-Benz showed off the new F-Cell production concept and said that hydrogen cars would be coming in the “hundreds of thousands” over the next few years from a variety of manufacturers.

The F-Cell, which will go into limited production in the next few months (more info here), is slated for European use along Germany, Denmark, and Norway’s “hydrogen highways.”

Despite this a…

The Frankfurt Auto Show this year is all about green cars: highly fuel efficient clean diesels, electric cars, and plug-in hybrids. It’s where the German automakers offer up their sexiest concept cars.

So the photos of the eagerly awaited Mercedes-Benz “Vision” concept car are a bit of a shock: It looks identical to a standard 2010 Mercedes-Benz S-Class with a fancy white and silver paint job.

But it’s the mechanical parts that matter; the Vision…

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 headquarter…