SL500 is a two door

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Interestingly enough, the only place the car is referred to by model in the book reads, "Great gray sedan, maybe SL 500 with twelve cylinders, and
all twelve now lined."

(emphasis added)

Also, this was in the mind of a character with no necessary knowledge of cars, let alone Mercedes (broke guy with no job).
 
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Mr Mercedes is an excellent book. A factual error about the car. The SL500 is a two seater roadster from Mercedes, not a four door. Additionally it is a V8 and not a V12.

I think Mr King was describing the S model and I would guess the 6 liter V12 which I believe goes by the S600 model number. The S class is Mercedes largest sedan, a four door and seems to meet the description in the book.
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I've read Buick 8 and Christine.Mr Mercedes is 1st in a trilogy. Now thinking we haven't seen the last of the car either...
 
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I'm confused by this, because I recently got information that he knows all about the "SL500 series of Mercedes" but he never mentions that they're two-doors. And I'm wondering how someone who's had Mercedes vehicles since 1980 wouldn't know that anyway.
I know one person in his family that nobody else communicates with because she's not in the public eye. I also know one of his daughter-in-laws. I mean I talk to them online. Sometimes I ask questions that sometimes have answers. They won't tell certain things, it has to do with a desire for privacy, but I heard that he knows about the SL500 series of cars. There's more than one. I'm wondering if maybe one car from that line is a sedan. I'm wondering if he maybe he asked the car's maker to create one just for him. Rich people do that, you know. They're really into being "the only one who knows something" or "the only one who has this car" or terminally unique in multiple ways to Sunday. I'm not bitter, just bewildered by it.
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I wonder if Stephen King asked Mercedes to make him an SL500 with four doors instead of two. That's something he isn't going to tell us though; if it's true only a few people will know. His family isn't going to say anything either. They're all closed up like crypts when it comes to talking about his personal life.
 
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Personally i doubt that very much. But i dont know but somehow it doesn't seem like King.
 

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Sometimes it is done intentionally--artistic license, etc.--even when the writer knows that he'll be called out on it, so for reasons other than having made a mistake or not knowing it's wrong. The Kings have owned a number of Mercedes over the years and I have no doubt that he knows what the real model is.
 

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Sometimes it is done intentionally--artistic license, etc.--even when the writer knows that he'll be called out on it, so for reasons other than having made a mistake or not knowing it's wrong. The Kings have owned a number of Mercedes over the years and I have no doubt that he knows what the real model is.
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