Mercedes-Benz calls the new SLS AMG sports car a "reinterpretation" of the automaker's classic gullwing 300SL and SLR models from the 1950s. Some pundits call AMG's (Mercedes' performance division) first in-house designed and built two-seater a thumb of the nose at Mercedes' partner McLaren, whose complex, doubly expensive SLR McLaren supercar failed to achieve the adulation and success expected of a flagship performance model. I, assuming the mantle of drooling, unabashed car geek, simply call the technically overloaded, 563-horsepower, 6.2-litre V8-powered SLS AMG coupe what it is - a winged weapon.