- AMG promises the most radical Black Series ever
- Black Series serves as a homologation model for the next generation of GT3
- Uncompromising vehicles for absolute performance purists
That concept AMG put on track last year wasn’t a show piece. It was a blueprint.
Mercedes-AMG has confirmed that the Concept AMG GT Track Sport — unveiled in 2025 to considerable curiosity and zero official explanation — serves as the direct technical foundation for two new performance machines: a successor to the Mercedes-AMG GT3 race car and an all-new Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series road car. One platform, two very different purposes, and a clear signal that Affalterbach intends to reassert dominance at both ends of the performance spectrum.
The relationship between the two cars is more direct than anything AMG has attempted before. The new GT Black Series will essentially function as a road-going version of the next-generation GT3, with development running in parallel from a shared starting point — a structural shift that allows AMG to transfer aerodynamic, cooling and chassis lessons from the track to the street with far greater fidelity than previous generations allowed. Prior Black Series models typically arrived late in a model’s lifecycle, serving as a final, extreme farewell. This one arrives alongside its race car counterpart from day one.
The camouflaged prototype has already accumulated significant mileage. Testing began in October 2025 across AMG’s in-house development track at Immendingen, Bilster Berg, Portimão and Monteblanco, with development now progressing to the Nürburgring Nordschleife — which, for AMG, is the only runway that really counts. The prototype runs in a split livery: red accents identify the GT3 configuration, while yellow-green marks the road-legal Black Series — a color-coding system that will carry forward into production.
Even under camouflage, the prototypes telegraph AMG’s intentions without much ambiguity. The aero package includes a towering rear wing, a massive front splitter, venting in the hood, front fenders and rear bumper, and a substantial rear diffuser — the vocabulary of a car engineered first for downforce and second for anything else. The road car rides on Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires and center-lock wheels. The race car gets slicks and a roll cage. Neither looks like it belongs anywhere near a speed limit.
On the motorsport side, this project also marks a significant organizational change. Development is being led by Affalterbach Racing GmbH, a newly established wholly-owned AMG subsidiary that effectively brings customer racing in-house for the first time, taking over from HWA AG, which had managed AMG’s GT racing programme since 2010. The new GT3 is built to replace the current Evo variant, though no specific on-sale date has been confirmed beyond AMG’s broader ambition to have the car competing in 2027.
The Black Series name carries real weight inside AMG — and outside it. The previous GT Black Series, sold between 2021 and 2023, produced 537 kW and 800 Nm from a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8, and set a Nürburgring lap time of 6:43.616 in 2020, making it the fastest road-legal production car at the time before Porsche’s 911 GT2 RS subsequently reclaimed the record. The next one, AMG says without hesitation, will be the most extreme Black Series ever built. Given that the previous car held the 'Ring record and still left buyers needing a waiting list, that’s not a casual claim.
The current GT 63 Pro — itself conceived as the most track-focused model in the second-generation GT lineup — develops 603 horsepower and 627 lb-ft, with a 0-62 mph time of 3.2 seconds and a 197 mph top speed. The Black Series will move well beyond those figures. As for price, the previous generation started at $326,050 in the U.S. market; expect the new one to push further north of that, positioning it as the most expensive Mercedes-branded car in the lineup now that AMG One production has ended.
Full specifications, pricing and a reveal date remain under wraps. What AMG has made clear is that the Nürburgring is coming, the record is in play, and the car wearing yellow and green is not going to apologize for either.
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