Although still another three years away from its official unveiling, our photographers took pictures to prove that Mercedes-Benz is already hard at work on the 3rd generation SLK.

Of course this prototype is still heavily disguised but it does give us an insight into what we may suspect in the new SLK.

We can see that the front grille and headlights will be more upright and square than those of the current model. Additionally the new SLK will also lose the Formula-One-inspired nose the current model has. Daylight driving lamps, Mercedes’ new door handles and the bigger mirrors “standing” on the door rather than being mounted in front of the side window will feature as well.

No doubt the folding metal roof will be standard as well.