Sls amg michael schumacher biography

AMG before Mercedes was the stuff of legend. Monster engines in squared-off sedans. Think fender flares, side strakes, monoblock wheels. Polished chrome rivets and leering foglights. Big bad bruisers for the businessman set: you never quite know where that money comes from, but it never stops coming, not at all.

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From a time before every debutante's CLA and middle manager's E-Class could wear an "AMG Sport" badge over a body kit and little else, each model was rare air: practically every AMG was built to order, as exclusive and expensive as its clientele could demand. A power play, in motion. The Art of the Deal , on wheels. Michael Schumacher may never have arranged a hostile takeover himself, but his name is still enshrined in the ownership papers of this this incredible AMG-breathed sledgehammer , transformed from slightly squishy boulevardier to something with more attitude and menace than a sleep-deprived Gerry Wiegert during a cocaine binge.

In days gone by, he would have blown past the huddled masses with the horsepower from the 6. Color-matched wheels? Color-matched wood trim, with matching shift knob? The jury is still deliberating. And, while driving for Mercedes-Sauber well into the s, he would have specced this grandest of grand tourers out himself—no holds barred, delivered right from the factory.

Then he would have gone off into the night to terrorize some autobahn dawdlers. Hard to believe, but in , the house at Affalterbach built just three SLs.