With that eye-popping prow, flat side panels accented with big blackwalls and rakish windshield stretched wide across a cockpit for two, snappy SLK Class two-seat coupes can shed that hard top in seconds and store it in the trunk to switch from weather-tight coupe to airy convertible. The series repeats in 2003 with three editions capped by the powerful SLK32 AMG performance model packing a supercharged 3.2-liter V6 and rolling on twin-spoke alloy AMG wheels. SLK320 draws from a 215 hp V6 and the entry edition SLK230 Kompressor uses a supercharged dual-cam 2.3-liter four-pack.
