Mercedes-AMG has launched the new GT Black Series within the United Kingdom market priced from £335,000. It’s the most extreme road-going version of the automobile thus far, drawing inspiration from the firm’s AMG GT GT3 racing car and providing fresh competition for the Ferrari F8 Tributo.
The GT Black Series is high-powered by a heavily modified version of the standard car’s twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V8 engine, that has been fitted with a host of go-faster bits pinched from Mercedes’s GT GT3 racer.
Upgrades embody a set of reprofiled camshafts, new exhaust manifolds, larger turbos, larger intercoolers, and an aggressive tune for the car’s ECU. The upgrade package is finished off with a larger-bore, thin-wall stainless-steel exhaust.
All these revisions mean the engine currently produces 720bhp and 800Nm of torque – that is 250bhp and 200Nm over the entry-level AMG GT. Power goes to the rear wheels via a beefed-up version of the car’s seven-speed automatic gearbox, that AMG says provides this latest Black Series model a 0–62mph time of 3.2 seconds and a top speed of 201mph.
Mercedes-AMG says the GT Black Series’s new engine is the most powerful V8 unit that has ever fitted to 1 of its cars – thus, to keep all that performance under control, the firm has given the GT’s chassis a radical overhaul with more durable, yet lighter, components.
There’s a brand new coil-over suspension system, that features electronically controlled dampers and double-wishbone arms front and rear. The car’s suspension geometry has additionally been tweaked, permitting the GT Black Series to run a lot of negative camber on the front shaft – that Mercedes-AMG says can deliver improved cornering performance.
He GT Black Series additionally features a wider track than the standard model and, where possible, Mercedes has swapped metal elements within the car’s chassis for carbon fiber replacement. So, there’s lightened versions of the GT’s front and rear torsion bars, also as a brand new carbon fiber sheer panel at the rear of the vehicle.
Mercedes has improved the GT’s brakes, too, with a bigger set of trained and ventilated ceramic discs with six-piston calipers up front and four-piston calipers at the rear – each of that are finished in black.
Finally, to require advantage of the upgraded chassis, the GT Black Series receives a set of wider, staggered alloy wheels wrapped in Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires, as well as a brand new configurable traction control system that features a similar nine-stage slip control settings as the firm’s GT3 racer.
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