Mercedes-Benz recently launched a dedicated website for the SL65 AMG Black Series, and it’s loaded with goodies for anyone who can’t get enough of the uber coupe. The site has detailed info on all of the Black Series’ features, as well as some new studio photos that we haven’t seen before.

Best of all, they’ve provided six new desktop wallpapers available in normal, widescreen, and iPhone sizes. We’ve compiled these beautiful high-res photos in a gallery and included the original shots if that’s not enough.

Nissan recently granted Auto four fleeting days with a red 2009 Nissan GT-R. While it seems every major automotive outlet has tested “Godzilla” on the track (including our First Drive), we chose instead to keep it on the streets to see if one of the world’s most powerful and fastest accelerating cars could be domesticated by stop-and-go traffic, family errands, and carpool duty.

Of course, we only stuck to that routine for a day or two… the rest of the time was spent on the famed canyon roads of Southern California. Follow the jump to read about our 100-hour experience in the Nissan GT-R and don’t miss what very well may be the most beautiful gallery of high-res images we’ve ever published courtesy of our own Drew Phillips and all ready to become your next desktop wallpaper.

Remember the Lightning GT? We told you about this all-electric supercar a few months ago, and it popped up today in person at the 2008 British Motor Show in London. That officially moves it one step away from the pure vaporware it was yesterday, which is a good thing since we’re eager to see the carbon fiber-bodied Lightning actually move under its own power someday. That power will be provided by the same Altairnano NanoSafe batteries used by the Phoenix SUT, though churning out the equivalent of 700bhp through four electric motors in this case.

Those motors are also the same PML wheel motors used in the 640-hp electric MINI, so they should be able to handle the 700bhp Lightning. There’s also regenerative braking, as well as pretty much every standard conveyance of luxury you would find in a normal supercar including air conditioning, sat nav, full leather, etc. Its maker is claiming a 4.0-second charge to 60 mph for the Lightning, but we’d also like to know what type of range they’re expecting in such a positively charged coupe. Unfortunately, details like that and the Lightning GT’s price are still pretty scarce, though as before, they are accepting £15,000 deposits. At least it’s no longer vapor.

Shelby Supercars has just issued its second release this week about its miraculous new project, the Ultimate Aero EV. As we read the announcement, it was obvious that it was exactly the same release from just a few days ago and the hyperbole was in no way toned down. They are promising to deliver a working prototype by February of next year, followed by full production examples by the fourth quarter of 2009. That, in and of itself, is highly improbable, but it just gets better from there. The performance the company is promising is insanely impressive and about as likely to come to fruition as airborne swine or your fairy godmother.

SSC promises two, 500hp electric motors equipped with a triple disc clutch and a six-speed gearbox. As Tesla found out the hard way, making a gearbox last with an electric motor is tough, even with half as much power. But it gets better. SSC promises a power source with extended times between charges, perhaps as long as several years. We’re still confused, but we don’t think it’s a coincidence that the company is making this announcement in the same week it announced its hopes of securing new venture funding.

Building a car powered by an internal combustion engine to go 250 mph is less of a big deal in this day and age. You just need an engine with enough power and a slippery shape. Building the kind of electric car that SSC is promising involves invalidating the most fundamental laws of physics. So for the time being, we remain comfortable skeptical

Think you’ve seen enough of the Ferrari California? We have too, but then 67 new shots of Ferrari’s V8-powered grand-tourer surfaced and we felt obliged to thrown them in a gallery for your viewing pleasure. All the details are revealed; from the wheels and vents to the trick gauge cluster and Spartan rear seats. Check out all the shots in the gallery below.

After we’ve had to adore the turbocharged Skyline GT-R from afar for nearly two decades, Nissan is officially selling its game-changing super coupe on U.S. shores for the first time. In a late night ceremony at a Universal City, California dealership, Daryl Alison took delivery of the very first GT-R sold Stateside – by the automaker. The event included all the pomp and circumstance you’d expect, including an appearance by notorious hot-shoe, Steve Millen. Alison, a long-time Nissan fan whose garage has housed a number of sports cars, including several 350Zs, was grinning from ear-to-ear while he got a rundown on this black GT-R in Premium trim. Not surprisingly, Alison paid sticker price ($72,900) for his GT-R, likely to be the first and last to do so as owners begin taking delivery of their own GT-Rs in the following weeks.