Instead we’re investigating its successor, the short-lived 2012-15 R172 with the 5.5-litre M152 V8. The first R170 SLK of 1996 generated a veritable tsunami of buyers, lots of them female.

Despite being the most powerful SLK of all time, the Mercedes-Benz SLK 55 AMG R172 hasn't received the amount of love its predecessors did. Some say this is owed to the not-exactly-sexy front ...

Brabus has released their new Sport program for the new Mercedes-Benz SLK R172. The package includes a wide variety of components, ranging from their usual multi-spoke wheels to exhausts and ...

There are two very distinct sides to the Mercedes SLK - one with the roof up and the other with it stowed away. Keep the metal roof up and the SLK is very much a sleek coupe and very quiet, refined ...

When the third-generation R172 SLK landed in 2012, the range peaked with the SLK55, packing a 310kW/540Nm 5.5-litre naturally aspirated V8 under its sloping bonnet. The SLK55 continued to lead the ...

A restomod like this classic 1970 Mercedes W111 “M-Coupe” rocking a 5.5-liter V8 and running gear from a Mercedes-AMG SLK 55. To cross breed the old Benz with a current-generation R172 SLK 55 ...

It was succeeded by the R171, launched at the Geneva motor show in 2004, and then today's R172 went on sale in 2011. It was known as the SLK until its 2016 facelift. Combined global sales of the ...