Mercedes is pressing forward with a new hardcore AMG GT Black Series, which itself will spawn a GT3 racer.
Following up the earlier Track Sport concept, Mercedes-Benz confirmed Tuesday that we are indeed looking at what will become the new AMG GT Black Series. From there, we’ll also see a GT3 race car.
“We are developing the most extreme Black Series ever,” says AMG board chairman Michael Schiebe. The concept, camouflaged here with yelllow (Black Series) and red (GT3) accents, first hit the scene in October 2025. Since then, the Mercedes-AMG engineers have hit race tracks around Europe honing what promises to be the wildest iterations of the GT coupe we’ve seen yet.
For some context, the last Mercedes-AMG Black Series launched for the 2021 model year. Back then, we got a twin-turbocharged, 4.0-liter flat-plane crank V8 pushing out a hearty 720 horsepower. In 2022, that very car laid down a laptime at the Nürburgring of 6:48.04 minutes, and is still the third-fastest production car. It’s still quicker around the ‘Ring than the newer Chevy Corvette ZR1X and Ford Mustang GTD, so to call that road-legal car insane is an understatement…and now AMG sounds like it’s going even harder this time around.
While Mercedes touted the inevitable arrival of two extreme AMG GTs — one being the road-legal Black Series and the other being the homologated GT3 racer — the automaker stopped short of offering up technical details on what that will actually look like, at least at this point in time. Just looking at the camo’ed Track Sport concept, ludicrous aerodynamics and widespread use of carbon fiber are two gimmes. As for power, it’s likely we’ll see even more than the last Black Series, and definitely a hike on the existing AMG GT63 Pro’s 603 horses.
We’ll almost certainly find out more in the coming months, as the Black Series arrives for the well-heeled enthusiasts out there. As for the GT3 version, that will probably replace the existing racer, based on the previous AMG GT, in the 2027 season for the IMSA SportsCar Championship.
