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2014 SLS AMG Black Series Still Wants You as an Owner

With no less than 631 hp (622 bhp) and 635 Nm (468 lb ft) of torque, the bonkers Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series has the most powerful naturally-aspirated V8 engine in the world, but this little bit of information is far from being the only spectacular detail about the model.
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Based on the “regular” SLS AMG, the Black Series version borrows a good amount of racing technology from the SLS AMG GT3 customer racing car and translates it for the road, with the overall package looking not much different than a GT3 racer with license plate holders.

“Fans of high-performance super sports cars will be fascinated by its high-tech package. The basis for passionate performance and supreme driving dynamics is provided by numerous new developments in the engine, transmission, suspension and aerodynamics - also giving top priority to our 'AMG Lightweight Performance' strategy. Outstanding efforts in the field of lightweight design have resulted in a curb weight of 3,417 pounds.” said Tobias Moers, the head of Mercedes-AMG.

The power to weight ratio of 2.5 kg (5.49 pounds) per each horsepower, the SLS AMG Black Series can hit 100 km/h (62 mph) in just 3.6 seconds from a standing start, with the first sixty mph to be reached in 3.5 seconds.

Compared with the one in the “regular” Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, the engine in the Black Series has the following enhancements:

  • Increase in maximum engine speed from 7,200 to 8,000 rpm
  • Fully revised high-speed valve train with modified camshafts geometry and optimized bucket cam followers featuring a special coating that is typically used on race vehicles
  • Modification of intake air ducting: de-throttling and adaptation to match the new maximum engine speed
  • Adaptation of engine mapping and increase in intake pressure

Why do we need to know all this once again, now that the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG range is heading towards its inevitable demise sometime this summer? Well, MB USA just announced that the MY2014 SLS AMG Black Series is available for ordering, so if you want to own a piece of AMG history in its most ridiculous form, now is the time to act - providing you have the necessary amount of moolah, that is.
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About the author: Alex Oagana
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Alex handled his first real steering wheel at the age of five (on a field) and started practicing "Scandinavian Flicks" at 14 (on non-public gravel roads). Following his time at the University of Journalism, he landed his first real job at the local franchise of Top Gear magazine a few years before Mircea (Panait). Not long after, Alex entered the New Media realm with the autoevolution.com project.
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