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First Sight: Mercedes-Benz SL

The new high-tech, low weight Mercedes SL roadster receives its official global unveil next week in Detroit but Car Design News got an early peek of the final production car and had a chat with its designers at Mercedes' US advanced design studio in Carlsbad, California back in November. "We want to get back to clean, long-lasting design," director of Mercedes global advanced design and SL project leader, Steffen Kohl told CDN at the exclusive preview of the sixth-generation model. "So the new SL is long, sleek and still full of tension in the feature lines but less wedgy." In a short presentation Kohl felt all SLs became successfully iconic in their times because they followed two key rules – ‘sensuality' and ‘cleanness' – but alluded that the first rule may have been lost in more recent eras.

New Honda CR-V revealed ahead of Geneva

The Euro version of the 2012 Honda CR-V debuts at Geneva The new Honda CR-V has been revealed in European spec ahead of its public debut at the Geneva Motor Show next month. We’ve seen the new Honda CR-V crop up a couple of times already. We had the Honda CR-V Concept and then we got a photo of the new CR-V cropping up on Honda’s Japan web site.

New Porsche Boxster GTS – now on video

The new Porsche Boxster GTS struts its stuff on video Last week, Porsche revealed a new range-topping Boxster – the Boxster GTS – together with a new Cayman GTS, and appealing, range-topping versions they are too. Now we get the first video of the Boxster GTS, and we have to say it does underline just how appealing the Boxster now is. Yes, many consider the Boxster the Porsche for the buyer who can’t afford a 911.