The Black Series represents the absolute pinnacle of the world of Mercedes-AMG. Image: Daimler.

The most powerful Mercedes-AMG production V8 to date.
The most distinct driving experience ever to leave the Affalterbach factory.
The closest AMG has ever come to building a racing car for the road.

All lofty claims, but resting very comfortably, thank you very much, on the taut shoulders of the latest member of the most enigmatic and prestigious branch of the AMG family tree – the new Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series.

As most AMG aficionados know, the Black Series represents the absolute pinnacle of the world of Mercedes-AMG, and doesn’t follow a timetable or model release schedule. A new ‘Black’ drops only when Mercedes-AMG decides upon exactly the right car, at exactly the right time.

The AMG GT Black Series is just the sixth member of this family of high-performance vehicles to be released since the Black Series badge was coined back in 2006. Sadly, unless you happen to be among a lucky few, all 28 examples of this model to come to Australia have already been snapped up by AMG enthusiasts.

A racing car for the road

This is the closest AMG has ever come to building a racing car for the road. Lighter, more powerful and completely overhauled in its chassis and aerodynamics, the GT Black Series has motorsport genes down to the smallest screw.

That depth of racetrack engineering was underscored recently when AMG factory racer Maro Engel made use of the many motorsport-inspired standard features baked into the GT Black Series to set a new record for unmodified road cars around the 20.8-kilometre Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit. In fact, Maro commented that in hitting well over 300 km/h during the lap, the GT Black Series was faster than his Mercedes-AMG GT3 race car.

By Steve Colquhoun