Clk63 amg black edition

If you can get the tires hooked up, you'll be at 60 mph four seconds later. Stay on it for As you've probably heard a thousand times, there's no replacement for displacement.

But this car drives home the axiom. It warbles along merrily on the freeway at 80 mph at rpm , barely breaking a sweat in the highest of its seven automatic gear ratios.

Punch it at that speed, and the transmission drops a few gears to get the big V-8 on the boil with a soundtrack you'll remember forever , and the CLK checks out with alacrity. Examine the top-gear acceleration numbers in the specs. The Black Series surges from 30 to 50 mph in 2.

But the real measure of its output is its ability to accelerate from 60 to mph in less than 20 seconds. You have to love horsepower, don't you? But that's just a part of the Black Series story. The rest of the engineering focus is on the chassis and body structure.

Much of the suspension is all-new, with shocks that feature adjustable rebound and compression damping and springs that allow ride-height adjustments. In typical racing manner, front-axle camber is adjustable, whereas the rear axle has adjustable toe only.

Extensive bracing—at the front strut towers, in the car's front section, and in the trunk area—lends additional stiffness, and some weight, to the Black Series compared with its tamer sibling. There had been some talk of a carbon-fiber roof to reduce weight, but instead, that material was used on some of the body add-ons such as the rear diffuser.

Lighter is better, for sure, but the big V-8 shoves this pound car around as if it were a comparative lightweight, and the huge cast-iron-disc, composite-hub brake rotors and monoblock calipers haul it down from speed with astonishing intensity.

There is much of the race car in this Black Series, and AMG chose to showcase it at the Streets of Willow circuit at Willow Springs International Motorsports Park, with a few of its racing drivers in attendance to show us the way around. With the transmission in manual mode, which locks in ratios unless otherwise commanded by paddles on the wheel, one could readily appreciate the benefits of an engine that pulls hard from low on the tach yet revs eagerly to more than rpm.

We'd initially thought the steering—it has respectable low-speed heft—to be a touch isolated for a car of this nature, but a stint on the track convinced us of its outstanding accuracy and satisfactory feedback levels.

With seismic acceleration, 0. The European market gets terrifically sporty shell buckets that are not legal in the U. Instead, we get extremely supportive leather-clad sport seats equipped with a strange combination of manual fore-and-aft adjustment and power recline, lumbar-support, and torso-bolster functions. It's a fair swap. When you're sitting snugly in the wraparound seat, clutching the flat-bottomed wheel while squeezing the throttle and stabbing the brake, there's not much wrong with the picture.

The Black Series blasts down the straights on an exhilarating tide of torque and then digs in hard under braking, turns in with considerable tenacity, rotates willingly on the throttle, and rockets out of the corner. All courtesy of the latest generation of Pirelli P Zero Corsa tires, which do a lot to make transitions progressive and readable without premature tire squeal.

Which is pretty much what you'd expect from an AMG-developed Mercedes coupe with 6. That may not sound like much bang for the buck, but the charm of AMG's big-bang V-8 is not to be underrated.

Especially not in the Black Series. AMG is all about power and panache, but its core credo goes beyond that. Spent 2 days waiting- in the end car was already sold long ago.

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