With its flared wheelarches, new front and rear bumpers, quad exhausts, twin bonnet powerdomes, rear diffuser or wing vents. And if you get close enough, peek through the window at the unusual sports seats that look like they came out of an ’80s 911, the leather-wrapped wheel, rubber-studded aluminium pedals and SLR-style silver instruments that look great.  Any way you look at it, this isn’t your usual sobre-suited Merc, its power station under the bonnet producing 451 BHP.

6.2L 451BHP  4.5sec 0-62mph, 155mph