2015 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing Coupe

Slimane Toubal, a professional clay artist from France who has worked with several automakers around the world including Audi, Honda and more recently, at PSA Peugeot-Citroen's China office, used his free time to create his own vision of what a modern-day 300 SL should look like.

The result is a design study that is more heavily influenced by the styling of the original 1950s 300 SL compared to the current SLS AMG.

Toubal penned both a coupe with the classic 'Gullwing' style doors and a roadster model, which unlike the soft-top SLS AMG, uses a retractable hardtop.