The vast majority of musings on crankandpiston, when we’re referring to powerful bruisers and muscle cars at least, will more often than not include words like ‘epic’, ‘awesomeness’, and – the old classic – ‘power’.

But rarely do we trot out adjectives like ‘poetic’, ‘genteel’ and ‘operatic’. That was until we viewed this short film from director Daniel Michaelis.

You might not look at the Mercedes SLS AMG the same way again.