First Drive: 2014 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series - Digital Trends
AMG Black is the physical embodiment of unbridled German madness. Then Mercedes called and asked me to drive the 2014 SLS AMG Black Series on the Willow Springs racetrack outside Los Angeles. Arrival It was a hot October day, as one might expect, at Willow Springs. There, as we munched loudly on our crunchy Italian treats, we were presented with the facts and figures of the SLS AMG Black Series. To make the SLS AMG Black , AMG engineers took their already rough-and-tumble SLS AMG and turned up the torque. The SLS AMG Black has more in common with the SLS GT3 racecar than it does with the standard SLS. By all rights, the SLS Black is a supercar. Underneath its ungodly long hood resides the 6. 3-liter V8 that makes 622 horsepower and 468 pound-feet of torque. That monstrous power is routed through an AMG SPEEDSHIFT DCT seven-speed sports transmission that can operate both in automatic and manual shift modes. The SLS Black will go 0 to 60 in 3. 5 seconds and onto a top speed that would make aerospace engineers. Source: www.digitaltrends.com
