2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3

The 2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 will offer the customer a car with race car specifications. Built to current FIA GT3 regulations, the SLS GT3 loses around 160kg in weight thanks to a stripped out interior and the use of carbon composite materials in its bodywork.

The SLS GT3 will be developed fully by Bernd Schneider before it’s offered to customers. Featuring the same dry-sumped 6.2-litre V8 as the road car, the racer’s output will likely be reduced via air restrictors to adhere to the GT3 championship equivalency formula.

Thanks to HWA – the company that builds AMG’s DTM cars – the SLS GT3 uses a six-speed paddle shifted transmission sourced from Hewland. A limited slip differential also features. Wider and aerodynamically enhanced bodywork covers the increased track and improves engine and brake cooling, with downforce increased by a low front splitter and enormous rear wing.