Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series review - Cars Guide
It’s the fastest and most powerful Mercedes road car ever sold in Australia and, at $640,000, one of the most expensive. But even though Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series is effectively a race-car for the road -- with more power than a V8 Supercar, racing suspension and F1-style brakes -- most of the eight cars coming to Australia will never turn a wheel in anger. Which is presumably why the company allowed the media to get behind the wheel of someone else’s cars in someone else’s country. Welcome to Willow Springs Raceway, a ratty ribbon of road etched into the side of a mountain, on the fringes of the desert, about 150km north of Los Angeles. The regular Mercedes SLS “Gullwing” starts at $468,320. (Incidentally, why Mercedes feels the need to clip the customer an extra $20, or an extra $320 on the end of the price for that matter, when they’re spending this much is beyond me. ) The... Much of the bodywork has been replaced with carbon fibre to trim 70kg of mass (to 1550kg). So what you have is a car that weighs about as much as a Volkswagen Golf with more power than the car that won this year’s Bathurst 1000. Ok, now I get it.... The bits that are carbon fibre include the bonnet, the panel behind the seats, the. Source: www.carsguide.com.au
