The SL-Class has been updated for 2007 with a new three-level grille, deeper front air dam, clear tail lamps, new interior colors, new wheel designs, and a more direct steering feel. It also gets more powerful engines and a special 50th Anniversary Edition to honor the launch of the first 300SL roadster in the 1950s.

The 2007 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class of two-seat roadsters with retractable hardtops is the descendent of the famed 300SL “Gullwing” Mercedes racing cars of the mid-1950s. In fact, 2007 marks the 50th anniversary of the first 300SL roadster model with a convertible top, and thus 550 special anniversary SL550 models will be built—each with pewter metallic exterior paint, cognac brown leather seating, and black ash interior wood trim.