Mercedes AMG head of vehicle engineering - Tobias Moers – has confirmed that a Mercedes SLS AMG Black Series is planned. Expected in 2013. As long ago as September 2009 we had word from a Mercedes source who told us that AMG planned to build a Black Series version of the SLS, with as much as [...]
Mercedes has revealed a configurator for the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster where you can configure your perfect car and even play with the throttle. This last month, and in particular the last ten days, the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster has cropped up here on an almost daily basis. We got the first official - but slightly disguised – [...]
We have video of the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster, and to our eyes it is much more appealing than the SLS Gullwing Coupe. With all the stories and photos we’ve run on the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster, it feels like it’s been here for ages. But it hasn’t. In fact, we think, this is the first video we’ve [...]
Despite the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster not being due to launch until the Frankfurt Motor Show in September, Mercedes has issued official photos. You might have thought that the photos of the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster we published a couple of weeks back were the official reveal of the soft-top SLS. But you’d be wrong. Those [...]
Mercedes has finally revealed official photos of the 2012 Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster, even thought it won’t debut until the Frankfurt Motor Show in September. The official arrival of the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster is turning out to be a rather difficult event to call. It’s getting on for two years since we ran the first spy [...]
We have a photo of the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster undisguised on the road in Hamburg, ahead of its debut at the New York Motor Show this month. It’s not too hard to tell we’re coming up to two major motors shows in April – the New York Motor Show and the Shanghai Motor Show. [...]
It now seems clear that the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster will be revealed at the 2011 New York Motor Show in April. It’s been quite a long time coming, the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster. The Mercedes SLS AMG Coupe made its debut at Frankfurt in 2009, complete with Gullwing doors and a two-fingered salute to McLaren. And [...]
David Coulthard drives across the Manx Mountain roads in a Mercedes SLS AMG for a 3D video shoot at speeds over 160mph. UK readers and those outside the UK who play silly games to get their hands on the world’s second favourite motoring show – Fifth Gear – may well have seen Tiff Needell pop [...]
Mercedes has revealed the first running prototype of its electric Gullwing Supercar – the Mercedes SLS AMG E-Cell - resplendent in its tennis-ball yellow paint job. We called it the Mercedes SLS AMG eDrive when we first talked about an electric SLS Gullwing last year. Although to be fair that’s what Mercedes called it when they gave [...]
Mercedes has sent us the first UK promotional video for the SLS AMG Gullwing. Now that things are finally starting to Rock ‘n’ Roll for the new Mercedes SLS AMG – Mercedes actually started building it in January – we’re getting some UK-specific stuff, which makes a change from Auto Bild telling the world [...]
The readers of Auto Bild – in an outbreak of mass xenophobia – have voted the Mercedes SLS AMG the most attractive car in Europe. Auto Bild has readers of its magazines across 21 European countries. So even though they are a German magazine you might reasonably expect that any German xenophobia would be tempered by a [...]
Mercedes has officially launched the SLS AMG GT3 Race car in New York, which is visually a big clue to the Mercedes SLS AMG Black Series due in 2013 With the New York Motor Show spluttering in to life across the Pond, we’ll have a number of show stories to cover to keep you up [...]
Mercedes has announced that this years F1 safety car will be the Mercedes SLS AMG, with the C63 AMG acting as Medical Car The new F1 season is close to kicking off, and we’ll get round to doing a preview of what’s happening at the start of the 2010 season once we’ve got Geneva out [...]
Mercedes has started full production of the SLS AMG ready for the first cars to arrive with customers at the end of March in Germany. I don’t know why – as Mercedes hadn’t previously announced it – but we guessed that they’d already started to put the Mercedes SLS AMG in to production ready for [...]
Mercedes has released a video of the Mercedes SLS AMG driving upside down on the roof of a tunnel. Every car maker wanting to boast about the ground-effect prowess of their cars will claim they could – in the right circumstances – drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel. But to the best of our knowledge it’s [...]
There are new reports that Mercedes are planning a Black Series version of the SLS AMG Gullwing for release in 2013. Back in September we reported that Mercedes were working on a Black Series Version of the SLS AMG. Not the most surprising news admittedly – it’s an obvious thing for Mercedes to do even [...]
We’re hearing that the new Mercedes SLS AMG Gullwing has an uncomfortably small cabin with tight seats and restricted headroom. Mercedes, quite understandably, has made a big deal of their in-house replacement for the mighty McLaren SLR. The tease in the run-up to the reveal rivalled that of Jaguar with the new XJ, and included [...]
It looks like Mercedes is planning a Black Series version of the SLS AMG Gullwing with up to 700bhp and a 3.0 second 0-60mph. We’ve only just had the official launch of the Mercedes SLS AMG Gullwing at Frankfurt, and it won’t hit the roads until well in to 2010. But we also know that [...]
Mercedes is out testing the convertible version of the SLA AMG in Europe – the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster – before a launch at Geneva in 2010. Even though the Mercedes SLS AMG Gullwing is only just making its official debut at Frankfurt, Mercedes are working hard on its soft-top sibling – the SLS AMG [...]
Mercedes has created a website for the SLS AMG Gullwing, with enormous detail on the new 563bhp Supercar. This last week has seen a gradual reveal of all things Mercedes SLS AMG. We’ve had months of information trickles, but on Wednesday we had a leak of the official pictures of the SLS, followed not too [...]
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG: Fascination and high tech The new gullwing from Mercedes-Benz Stuttgart/Affalterbach — Automotive fascination and high tech of the highest order: These are the traits embodied by the new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, which is making its world premiere at the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt on 15 September 2009. The super sports [...]
Mercedes has now released detail and pictures of the SLS AMG Gullwing ahead of Frankfurt. The Mercedes SLS AMG is so well known to us all – after the endless ‘Dance of the Seven Veils’ Mercedes has been performing with the launch – that it feels as if the SLS has been around forever. But [...]
Ahead of its Frankfurt launch, official pictures of the Mercedes SLS AMG Gullwing have leaked out. Update 12/9/09: Mercedes has now issued a full set of official pictures of the SLS AMG. They have also launched an SLS AMG Gullwing website, with enormous detail on the new Mercedes. About time too. We’ve been teased and [...]
Things at Mercedes are leaking like a sieve at the moment. We had a leak last week about the Mercedes SLS AMG eDrive, which Mercedes ended up revealing officially a few days later, and today we’ve had drop in out inbox (thanks for the tip – whoever you are!) the SLS AMG Order Guide for [...]
