The Next Mercedes-AMG Black Series Is Coming Soon, and It’s Going to Be Wild

Back in 2021, Mercedes-AMG released the GT Black Series and it was a serious rear-wheel-drive track car in street car clothing. It boasted a 720-horsepower beast of a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V-8 sending its energy through a set of sticky Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 R tires, making for a 2.9-second 0–60-mph time. Well, it seems AMG isn’t done and looks to one-up itself with a new Black Series. And it will have direct ties to the next-generation GT3 race car that will represent the brand on tracks around the world in the near future.

Built off the lessons Mercedes-AMG learned from the Concept AMG GT Track Sport, the next GT Black Series will be the closest thing to a road-legal race car that Mercedes can sell you. If anything, it sounds like it will be even closer to that ideal than even the 2021 GT Black Series was. Mercedes-AMG says both this new extreme road car and the AMG GT3 race car are testing side-by-side at the same tracks. As a bit of early proof of that, if you happened to be around the Nürburgring Nordschleife early this year, it’s possible you saw two camouflaged GTs. One with a red stripe and detailing, and the other with the same treatment in yellow-green. It’s those colors that reveal which car is the GT3 (the red coloring) and which is the AMG GT Black Series (the yellow-green).

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For now, these are all the details Mercedes-AMG has provided regarding its development of the upcoming GT Black Series and the GT3 customer race car. From the images it has released, the GT Black Series is shaping up to be Mercedes’ version of the Ford Mustang GTD. The rear-window wing placement, aerodynamics, and bodywork all look the same as the AMG GT3, save for a smaller front grille opening on the GT Black Series.

As we brightened up the original images Mercedes sent us, we could see the yellow-green car has ADAS features located in the windshield, and the side-exit exhausts are either moved rearward and just ahead of the rear wheels or exit out of the rear-diffuser area. The race car exhaust dumps out just behind the front fenders. And while the GT3 car has its required emergency features on the right side of the cowl area, they are missing from the street car. The only oddball thing we can’t explain is that the GT Black Series’ door windows appear to be made from Lexan, but they will most likely change to glass for production. At least they will need to do so when the car makes it to the U.S.

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Although we expect to hear more about the car soon thanks to this news, the realistic timeline for the Black Series’ arrival will most likely be mid- to late-2026 as a 2027 model-year announcement. As for price, the 2021 AMG GT Black Series went for $327,050 and the track-day-only AMG GT Track Series recently commanded $385,000. Expect this new one to cross the line in the high $350,000 to the low $370,000 range.