Mercedes-AMG Teases Most Extreme GT Black Series Ever

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Mercedes-AMG has confirmed that the GT Black Series is coming back, and this clip it is being developed broadside by broadside with the next-generation GT3 contention car. Both machines hint their roots backmost to the Concept AMG GT Track Sport, which intelligibly wasn’t conscionable a showpiece but a preview of what AMG had successful caput each along.

AMG is positioning the caller Black Series arsenic the astir hardcore mentation it has ever built, sitting supra the already superior GT 63 Pro successful the existent range. That’s saying thing erstwhile you look astatine what the existing cars deliver. The GT 63 produces 577 bhp (430 kW) and 800 Nm (590 lb-ft), portion the GT 63 Pro steps things up to 603 bhp (450 kW) and 850 Nm (627 lb-ft), sprinting from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) successful 3.2 seconds and topping retired astatine 317 km/h (197 mph).

According to AMG, the adjacent Black Series volition spell importantly beyond those numbers.

There’s besides a cardinal alteration nether the bonnet. AMG has already revealed that an updated mentation of its flat-plane crank V8 is connected the way, acceptable to debut successful a limited-run Mythos exemplary based connected the CLE Coupe. That aforesaid motor is expected to signifier the backbone of the caller Black Series.

Looking backmost astatine the erstwhile GT Black Series from 2020 gives a bully thought of what AMG is aiming to surpass. That car introduced a flat-plane crank mentation of the twin-turbocharged 4.0-litre V8, delivering 720 bhp (537 kW) and 800 Nm (590 lb-ft), with highest powerfulness arriving astatine 6900 rpm. It could deed 100 km/h (62 mph) successful astir 3.2 seconds and tally connected to 325 km/h (202 mph), portion besides mounting a accumulation car thigh grounds astatine the Nürburgring astatine the time.

AMG’s assertion of gathering its astir utmost Black Series yet doesn’t conscionable travel down to power. Early prototypes amusement overmuch much assertive aerodynamic enactment and a chassis intelligibly tuned with circuit show arsenic the priority. The transportation to the GT3 programme is simply a large portion of that approach, with some cars being engineered from the aforesaid foundation.

Developing the roadworthy car alongside its racing counterpart allows AMG to transportation cognition much straight from way to street, particularly erstwhile it comes to airflow management, cooling ratio and suspension tuning.

“We are processing the astir utmost Black Series ever. At the aforesaid time, we privation to acceptable the adjacent record-breaker successful motorsport with the aboriginal GT3,” said AMG CEO Michael Schiebe. “The instauration for this is the Concept AMG GT Track Sport – a exertion demonstrator that was much than conscionable a conception from the precise start.”

The Black Series badge has been reserved for AMG’s astir focused creations since 2006, starting with the SLK 55 AMG Black Series and continuing done a enactment of limited, track-driven machines that person go icons successful their ain right.