First Drive: 2010 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG - U.S.-Spec: Forget The Doors, It's All About the Roar.  MAZDA RACEWAY, LAGUNA SECA, Monterey, California: The moment the door arcs skyward, it all makes so much sense. The classic long-nose proportions, those silver strakes along the base of the windshield and behind the front wheels. Of course, there's a familiar three-pointed star on the nose.

But when it starts up with a growl, the world tilts on its axis. The look is pure is Aufrecht and Melcher, but that sound...cherry bomb? Flowmaster?

Then the car pulls away, with AMG test pilot and five-time German Touring Car champion Bernd Schneider behind the wheel, and your ears begin to tell even grander lies to your brain...<Continued>