New AMG GT Black Series takes shape alongside GT3 race car
Mercedes AMG brought back the Black Series, and Affalterbach is developing two cars at once: a new GT3 racer and, alongside it, a road going AMG GT Black Series, which board member Michael Schiebe called the most extreme interpretation in Black Series history so far. It is a move that sharpens AMG’s top tier image at a moment when the brand is pushing ever deeper into the higher end of the market.
Mercedes AMG released official images of the two new coupés, both still wearing camouflage. According to several sources, both sit on the current AMG GT platform, but their jobs are neatly split. One is headed for the GT3 grid, the other brings the Black Series name back to the road. AMG tied both cars into the same development programme, which grew out of last year’s Concept AMG GT Track Sport project.
The key technical detail in this story is homologation. The Black Series is not returning simply as the most expensive AMG, or the loudest one, but as a model that helps bind road car and race car engineering into a single whole. Autocar reports that the new Black Series is being developed in parallel with the next GT3 car, and will sit even above the GT 63 Pro, which AMG itself previously presented as the most track focused version of the second generation GT line. That places the new car squarely in the same arena as the Porsche 911 GT3 RS, and whatever lap record games come next.
That also explains why AMG treats the Black Series name so carefully. Back in February, Schiebe confirmed that Black Series would live on, because for AMG it is effectively an obligation, and every new car wearing the badge must be radical. The last model to carry the name, the previous AMG GT Black Series, arrived in 2020 with 720bhp and set what was then the production car record at the Nürburgring Nordschleife. The new generation now needs to clear that bar, otherwise the badge starts to lose its weight.
From a business point of view, AMG is following a very logical path. Mercedes Benz said in January that Top End models accounted for 15 per cent of passenger car sales in 2025, while Mercedes AMG delivered 145,000 cars, one of the best results in the brand’s history. In that context, the Black Series does more than serve as a halo car. It helps protect pricing, feeds exclusivity and gives the wider AMG range a dose of technical credibility. That is exactly why Schiebe previously stressed that limited run special models sit at the core of AMG’s identity.
The picture gets more interesting because AMG is not choosing just one direction. While Affalterbach revives its V8 powered Black Series line, Mercedes AMG is also preparing a new electric four door GT on the AMG.EA architecture for 2026. In other words, the brand is building two futures at once. One path carries electric high performance, the other defends the emotional peak of the combustion engined segment. The return of the Black Series says something very plainly: AMG is not about to give up on the internal combustion car for its most demanding customers until an electric alternative can stir the same desire with equal force.
The conclusion is hard to miss. Mercedes AMG is not reviving Black Series to bask in old glory, but to use it as a tool, bringing a new homologation model to the road while reinforcing the most profitable end of the brand. The company still has not named an exact debut date, but the message already feels unmistakable: the next Black Series is coming, it is being born alongside the GT3 programme, and AMG intends to redefine its own measure of extremity all over again.
