Mercedes SL Night Edition & Mercedes SLK Grand Edition launched

Mercedes has launched special edition of the SL and SLK – The Mercedes SLK Grand Edition and the Mercedes SL Night Edition.

It’s New Year, the weather’s freezing and there’s a blanket of snow covering much of Europe. What better time to launch special editions of a couple of high-end convertibles?

But I suppose there is some logic. For all the reasons above people tend not to buy convertibles – even tin-top convertibles – at this time of the year. They’re wrong, mind you, as we pointed out a few weeks ago. Now is the time to snap up- a bargain convertible in anticipation of days without slush, snow and ice.

So Mercedes has decided now is the time to launch a couple of Special Edition models of their tin-top convertibles – The Mercedes SL Night Edition and the Mercedes SLK Grand Edition.

The Mercedes SL is a great car, but it’s coming to the end of its shelf life, but a Special Edition will inject a little oomph in to sales. The SL Night gets high-gloss, two-tone 19″ AMG alloys, silver painted calipers, smoked light lenses, a matt black paint job and a badge or three. Inside it’s more back-to-black with black Nappa leather, contrast arrow-shaped stitching, sports steering wheel and a black gear lever.

The Mercedes SLK gets a similar makeover with 18″ alloys, silver fins on the bonnet, headlight accents and a Designo Graphite paint job. Inside is a canvas in grey, with grey Nappa leather with red stitching and a ‘Grand Edition’ logo slapped on the glovebox.

Cost of the SL Night Edition Package is €3,700 and for the SLK Grand Edition €2,300. Mercedes hasn’t got back to us yet to say whether we can get these special editions in the UK, but we’ll update here once we know.