2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG - Road Test - Car and Driver (blog)
[To his wife:] Hey, Gail, you’re working till the end of your life so I can afford this car. My father always said he wouldn’t own a Mercedes because he said that everybody will think he stole it. ”. With a gray beard covering a long chin at the bottom of a tapered face—and being a man of letters himself, who has likely had a snort or two... “My father was born in 1902—he went through the Depression. We crossed paths with Thomas Steinbeck in California’s Big Sur, where the Pacific Ocean slams in a white froth against the green parapets of the coastal mountains. These are the footlights of John Steinbeck’s stage. Here, on Cannery Row and the Monterey Peninsula, in the Salinas Valley lettuce fields, and among the ranches tucked in the verdant folds of the Gabilan and Santa Lucia ranges, the great novelist set some of America’s best-known fiction, from... Two reasons draw us, in a $202,550 SLS AMG: If there’s a place with a better mix of photogenic roads, plate tectonics and the highway department have yet to create it. And, John Steinbeck was a car man. His Depression-era characters lived in the dawning age of automobile dependence, and his works are punctuated with odes to jalopies and, specifically, the Model T. In Cannery Row , he wrote, “Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford... Source: www.caranddriver.com
