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Mercedes SLS AMG Black Series – Australian pricing

The 464kW Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series will be launched in Australia in July. And, if you want one, you’ll need to scrounge together the small matter of $639,000. That’s quite a lot of money really. But you know the best part? An AUSmotive reader has confirmed with us he has ordered one. Better still, […]

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2013 Mercedes SLS AMG Black Series revealed

While we were away enjoying the public race tracks of New Zealand’s south island Mercedes-Benz lifted the lid on its SLS AMG Black Series. And here it is! The SLS Black is not quite a match for the GT3 45th anniversary edition, but looking at all the carbon fibre adornments it clearly provided inspiration for the […]

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Mercedes SLS AMG Black Series lights my fire

Hmm, that’s not gone well. Remember that Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series test mule we showed you the other day, well it’s just lost a sibling thanks to a nasty fire while testing at the Nürburgring. At first it was thought the fire started due in the engine bay, but a later theory suggests it […]

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Mercedes SLS AMG Black Series shows its face

Pistonspy brings us a great series of spy shots showing a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series prototype on a testing run. For the first time we get to see the front of the SLS Black with no disguise. Assuming the bodywork we see here is not a ruse, take note of the new front quarter […]

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Oh yes, the SLS AMG Black Series is coming!

Last month it emerged that Mercedes-Benz was keen to make a Black Series version of its SLS AMG ‘Gullwing’. And here’s the spy shot to prove it. The shot was taken close to the Benz development facility near the Nürburgring. Expect the SLS Black to hang on to its naturally aspirated 6.2 litre V8. Of […]

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Mercedes-AMG GT revealed

After a long build up the Mercedes-AMG GT is here. Mercedes is talking itself up with this car and AMG has lofty ambitions for its latest model. Just look at the first sentence from the press release below: The first Mercedes was a racing car, its most recent successor carries this heritage forward: with the […]

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Mercedes-Benz AMG GT photos leaked?

Mercedes-Benz is talking a big game for its new AMG GT, which is due for an official reveal next month. But as we’ve become accustomed these days images have a way of leaking out and spreading around the interwebz. It’s not totally clear if these two AMG GT images are genuine, but based on a […]

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Mercedes-Benz GLA 45 AMG revealed

As night follows day Mercedes-Benz has found another model to stuff its mighty 265kW/450Nm 2.0 litre turbocharged engine into. After servicing the hot hatch and saloon markets, Mercedes has now turned its hand to the all conquering mid-size SUV segment with the GLA 45 AMG. As its name suggests this is the lovechild of the […]

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New York 2013: Mercedes-Benz CLA 45 AMG

It’s only a few months since the covers came off the stylish Mercedes-Benz CLA sedan at the Detroit Auto Show in January and already we have the cooking AMG version. Of course, we knew the CLA 45 AMG was coming thanks to last week’s leaked pics. Most of the fruit is already known as it’s […]

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Mercedes-Benz A45 AMG revealed

The hot hatch world has a new hero. Mercedes-Benz. Yes, Mercedes-Benz, the company known for ferrying around African dictators in its armoured S Class saloons is now chasing the well to do dudes who used to wear their baseball caps backwards. Or something. The car up for discussion here is, of course, the A45 AMG, […]

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Mercedes AMG unveils 2013 F1 car

This is the Mercedes F1 W04, the car Lewis Hamilton hopes won’t leave him looking like a fool after his highly publicised switch from the vastly more successful (in recent years) McLaren team. It took a while for us to get a decent look at the car as well, following some rather pointless teasing from […]

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The sweet sound of AMG’s Black thunder

There’s nothing quite like the sound of a V8 engine at full noise. And Mercedes-Benz has found a way to create a unique aggressive tone to their hand built AMG V8 engines. Here then is the latest spy video of the SLS AMG Black Series and its 6.3 litre V8 in action. It sounds mental! […]