A lightweight Black Edition version of Mercedes’ SLS AMG will arrive in Australia in very limited numbers in the third quarter. The SLS AMG will be the most potent Black Series model to date with a hand-built 6.3-litre V8 that produces a whopping 464kW, up 44kW from the standard model, to race to 100km/h in 3.6 seconds.

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Mercedes-Benz will launch a cabriolet version of its SLS AMG supercar priced from $487,500 - 19k more than its hardtop sibling. The roadster is based on the same lightweight aluminium spaceframe chassis and, with the same hand-built 420kW/650Nm 6.2-litre normally aspirated V8 engine, has equivalent 0-100km/h acceleration of 3.8 seconds and governed 317km/h v-max.

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Mercedes-Benz is expected to launch its new SLS supercar locally by late 2010. It will be the first model built by the lauded German maker to feature roof-hinged ‘gullwing’ doors since the 1950s 300SL. The SLS will be powered by a 420kW dry-sump version of AMG’s 6.2-litre V8.

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