Can you pinpoint what's wrong with the following Mercedes commercial? Everything starts out fine: a scenic mountain road, relaxing classical music, and a happy driver. Oh yeah, and the featured car is the new 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL550, which shows off the deep exhaust note from its 4.6-liter twin-turbo V-8 engine rated at 429 hp and 516 lb-ft of torque. But something is just off. Sound off below if you would have had the same reaction as the SL driver in the ad.
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As MotorTrend’s road test editor and fleet manager, Erick Ayapana spends a bulk of his day pestering automakers for vehicles to test and shaming staffers for curbing wheels. Erick is a SoCal native who spends his free time doing SoCal things and pondering the world’s unsolved mysteries, including the proper way to launch a Subaru WRX with a manual transmission.
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