You are welcome to the forum, of course. And hopefully you will eventually ditch the SLK and and get a SL instead
As much as most believe, SLK is not built on the same platform as the SL, nor the car is anywhere relate to one another. It has more resemblance of a C-Class. The concept of the SLK orginates from the 190SL, a sibling of the 300SL of the '50s, for the less fortunate of that era but still wanted to drive around in a 3-pointed star drop top. SLK is the modern day MB's attempt to attrack younger generation to its line of drop top. As the Car Magazine (England) once stated, the "new money go for the SLK, and the old money stay with the SL". Guess that pretty much sums it up.
We are all MB enthusiasts, so welcome to the forum.