A warm welcome
@ SGS Styling Garage
Dear customers and friends of the Styling Garage
For almost 50 years now, we have been building extraordinary vehicles and developing automotive concepts that have attracted great attention and recognition worldwide … and still do. SGS Styling Garage has never lost its focus: As an engineer, trained vehicle builder and designer, it has always been important to me to combine function & aesthetics with each other in a technical + high quality way, so that in the truest sense of the word, “beautiful solutions” are created. Solutions that still work even after decades – as many vehicles that have “survived” around the world and are on display in collections and museums worldwide show in detail.
It was and is incredibly important to me that my customers not only receive their cars happily, but that they come back to us years or decades later to have them restored or given a “refit”. This is still the case today. With the smiles of my customers in mind, there are many exciting stories to tell! Relive them … and look forward to the latest creations and innovations that are currently being developed! Welcome @ Styling Garage
Yours, Chris Hahn
SGS Approach & values
- Highest function & high-tech standards
- Stylish aesthetics & timeless design
- Attention to detail & solution orientation
- Durability & reliability
- Avant-garde technology … always ahead …
- More than 2,000 cars built …
- One-of Character – A Class of its Own
- Motto: 100% is not enough!
High-End Innovations
Gaining a foothold in the automotive world in 1978 as a weirdo – now called a nerd – was and always has been difficult. But when we started developing technical innovations in the early 1980s and building highly aesthetic, spectacular gullwing doors and convertibles based on MB, we became synonymous worldwide with luxury and style with exceptional standards. Many of our pioneering innovations (right) and some of our design elements became standard in the automotive industry. Many of our customers at the time still have our cars …
Personal & economic mistakes on my part have led to a life full of rollercoaster rides over the past 40 years. But one thing has remained the same in 2025. My ambition to build “awesome things”! And to make you – together with my small team – happy with our products..
SGS lives & loves innovation … and the spectacular!
SGS INNOVATIONs - since 1978
- 1981 – All-electric convertible technology on SEC basis
- 1982 – Hinged hydraulic doors based on Mercedes
- 1983 – Bullet-proof, overlapping armor plating
- 1983 – Stereo technology in the roof/dashboard
- 1984 – Tube TV integration Dashboard (3 monitors)
- 1984 – Automated switches for automatic transmissions
- 1985 – Fully automatic, electro-hydraulic convertible roofs
- 1985 – First hybrid vehicle as a three-wheeler at the IAA
- 1987 – 1996 – More than 40 different OEM convertible roof systems developed
- 1992 – First stage development of the Butterfly Doors
- 1999 – Scissor/butterfly doors “as a normal door”
- 2000 – 2025 … and much more … please look further!
Gullwings & Cabriolets
Our specialty for over 40 years now: It all started in 1981, when we cut the roof off the 500 SEC to develop spectacular gullwings and elegant convertibles. This complex, electro-hydraulic mechanism of the gullwing and the electro-hydraulic soft top drives for convertibles still impress today with their filigree way of opening and closing. Convertible top boxes that were flush with the bodywork became the standard in automotive engineering. Over the years, retractable hardtops followed, as well as perfected, elaborate closing processes in the convertible sector for a wide range of makes and models.
In 2025, we are still developing and building custom-made gullwing doors and fully retractable convertibles. Our already durable designs from the 1980s have been further refined, specified and perfected. So that you have fun!
SGS Design: aesthetic. SGS Technology: durable. SGS Automobiles: Myth!
100% Open by Styling Garage
- Electro-hydraulic gullwing doors with automatic ejection
- Electro-hydraulic fully automatic convertible tops
- Retractable Hardtops > example Testarossa & MB CL
- All-electric Landaulets – also for the G-Class
- Targa-Gullwings > Gullwing based on the 992 targa
- On request for private >> One of’s / individual pieces
- On request for industry >> Concept studies
- On request for OEMs >> Show cars/prototype construction
Design Studies & prototypes
We have developed pioneering innovations. We have looked for special solutions for customers … and implemented them. We have done really crazy things. We have set standards!
But what still really drives us are things that don’t yet exist. Really cool things! Cars that are fun. For people who want the full experience. Automobiles or vehicles that may become legendary. Or at least unique!
We fulfill your “one-of” wishes. Your dreams! With your very own story …
Whether for private or industrial use. The SGS promise always applies: “No limit means no limit!”
Feel free to contact us if you have specific questions or want to realize your dreams with us. We are in the mood for you …
SGS Specials
- SGS Shooting Brake & SGS Pickup (2025)
- SGS 992 targa Speedster & Gullwing (2026)
- SGS SL Speedster Concept (2026)
- SGS 850 Cabriolet – 19 built (1991)
- SGS Corrado Cabriolet & Shooting Brake (1990)
- SGS 928 Gullwing (1989)
- Concept Cars & Design Studies
- Prototype development & small series
- Movie cars (Nightrider, Rocky IV, Supernasen)
Finest Craftmanship
As a recognized KBA vehicle manufacturer, we at SGS took our vehicle construction very seriously back then. As an engineer, it was always very important to me to develop technically flawless and great products … and to implement them with meticulous craftsmanship and technical detail.
With a high level of personal commitment and the highest quality standards, we still build cars that have it all. In the truest sense of the word, we attach great importance to our “innards”, our technology, our refinements. Whether it’s the finest leather interiors, special technical solutions or completely individual customer wishes at the limit of your imagination. We can make it possible. True to our motto: “SGS – A Class of its Own”, an SGS always remains an SGS. You can look forward to wonderful results. Feel free to contact us if you have any special questions or requests.
SGS Custom Craftmanship
- SGS Exclusive Gullwing, butterfly & convertible conversions
- SGS Custom Implementation of special customer requirements
- SGS Finest Interiors Individually designed interiors
- SGS Classic Restorations, refits & retromods
- SGS XXL Stretching cars & SUV‘s …
- SGS STS Special technical solutions ..
The (long) SGS History ...
Anything was possible … the 1980s were the playground for spinning, tinkering, engineering fantasies and the most sophisticated customer wishes. We did it: for movie stars, conductors, pop stars, heads of government, despots, kings and sheikhs. But also for ordinary people who had a taste for individual, beautiful Mercedes-based automobiles. Vehicles that Mercedes could not supply at the time … and which today demonstrate the uniqueness of SGS!
From shooting brakes, sports station wagons, landaulets, stretch limousines, armored vehicles and wild creations. We have also produced these for well-known companies on behalf of third parties. We also have many developments & patents that we developed in the 1980s/1990s and which have become the standard in the automotive industry today. We have an eventful history to tell …
further 1980‘s SGS Firsts ...
- SGS Royal – XXL in width & length on MB SEL basis
- Multimedia 1980‘s > Up to 3 screens in the cockpit/instrument panel + stereo system integrated in the headliner
- 1980 – First digital speedometers/instrument board “digitized”
- Telephone integration & special antennas from the aviation sector incl. TV/recording/DAT recorder in the cockpit
- 6 x 6 Hummer-based desert hunting cars
- More than 2,000 individual automobiles built …
