There’s AMG, and then there’s AMG. You can pick up a humble Merc A-Class hatch with big-talking rims bearing those three little letters, as well trim bits and pieces that hint at German hot-rod cred, and you can tell yourself you're living the AMG dream.

But then the Mercedes-AMG GT ranges into view. A proper, hand-built supercar, rolling in the wheel tracks of the epic SLS, adding a serious, high-performance sheen to the three-pointed star’s global image.

The race-focused AMG engineers and designers in Affalterbach, north-east of Stuttgart, who created the car from a clean sheet, recently decided that after two years on sale it deserved a visual and mechanical freshen up. Their local colleagues invited us to steer it through rural Victoria. Who could say no?

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