Mercedes’s $300,000 SLS Supercar Roars on Desert Track
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On my first lap of Willow Springs International Raceway in the $275,000 Mercedes-Benz SLS Black Series supercar, I elect to be driven. I’ve never been to this track before, and Mercedes has brought along a pro race-car driver.
I’ve heard a lot of things (“insanely fast” and “really hairy”) about “Big Willow,” which sprawls against a bluff in the bleak Californian desert about 90 miles north of Los Angeles.