Passenger-videos are almost always enjoyable, whether the people being filmed for their reactions are scared for their lives or are simply enjoying the ride a bit too much – which is pretty much what can be said of the video below.
In what could very well be a low-budget toothpaste commercial, the following footage is of what appears to be a middle-aged man who is having the time of his life while riding shotgun in a roaring Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG.
We have no idea of any family correlation between the rather cool-headed younger driver and his non-stop grinning passenger, but they might as well be a son showing his father the how much Gs can a modern supercar make its passenger endure on a racing track.
The baby-boomer generation grew up with rumbling, chassis-shaking V8 muscle cars, so the sound made by the might M159, 6.2-liter, normally aspirated V8 of the SLS AMG can probably bring a few memories for our hero in the passenger seat.
The way that the car accelerates, brakes and takes corners is most likely a completely new experience, though, hence the Joker grin. We know that the chances of forgetting how a modern day Gullwing looks like are as slim as a toothpick, but we've also prepared a nice photo gallery of the car below.
Alex handled his first real steering wheel at the age of five (on a field) and started practicing "Scandinavian Flicks" at 14 (on non-public gravel roads). Following his time at the University of Journalism, he landed his first real job at the local franchise of Top Gear magazine a few years before Mircea (Panait). Not long after, Alex entered the New Media realm with the autoevolution.com project. Full profile
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