First of all, we should probably advise you that during the seven minutes or so of watching the following video we probably invented an entirely new level of swearing and cuss words.
The aren't that many words to describe the cringing feelings we got during the poor SL 63 AMG's ordeal at the hands of the jaws of life.
Second of all, we are well aware that the team of firemen in the footage bellow did those unspeakable things to the car because they were training to save lives and not to satisfy some sick and twisted fetish about destroying hyper-expensive, mostly-hand made cars.
With that being said, we think that there are hardly any excuses for the almost total destruction of such a car just to prove that firefighters can handle any type of passenger extraction from an accident, no matter what the vehicle involved is.
Thankfully, the most important part of the car – its hand-built M157 engine – remained untouched during the procedure, and the group of firemen checking out its “builder's tag” at the end make for a pretty “awww” moment.
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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