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title: "New Mercedes-AMG GT R Pro Tackles the Nurburgring in Angry Fashion, Doesn’t Break Records"
description: "However, Mercedes-AMG's newest and sweetest baby performed the task in just 7:04.632."
date: "2018-12-05"
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# New Mercedes-AMG GT R Pro Tackles the Nurburgring in Angry Fashion, Doesn’t Break Records

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2018/12/amg-gt-r-pro-nurburgring.jpg>)
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Inheriting upgrades derived from the company's GT3 and GT4 racing programs, the [Mercedes-AMG GT R Pro](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/25142/2020-mercedes-amg-gt-r-pro-tightened-lightened-and-limited>) is the meanest AMG GT yet. While it "makes do" with the same 577-horsepower, 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 as the amateur GT R, enhancements in aerodynamics, suspension, and weight reduction allow the Pro to lap the Nürburgring Nordschleife in 7:04.632, in less-than-ideal fall conditions, no less.

https://youtube.com/embed/1LlXeAR3ntw

While this is impressively almost 6.3 seconds faster than the normal GT R, the GT R Pro's time doesn't break any records and is still a handful of seconds away from joining the sub-6-minute club populated by the fastest Porsches and Lambos of the land. Last month, [a mildly-modified 911 GT2 RS smashed the road-legal car record](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/24652/this-modified-porsche-911-gt2-rs-is-now-the-fastest-road-legal-car-around-the-nurburgring>) making its way around the track in just 6:40.33. The fastest production car record, meanwhile, still belongs to [the factory-ready Aventador SVJ](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/22411/watch-the-lamborghini-aventador-svj-bust-the-nrburgring-lap-record>) which does it in 6:44.97. For even more perspective, [Porsche's 991.2 GT3 RS](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/20264/watch-the-new-porsche-911-gt3-rs-lap-the-nrburgring-in-656-4>) officially recorded a 6:56.4.

Among the GT R Pro's laundry list of upgrades are adjustable

coilover suspension, adjustable sway bars, a carbon reinforcement panel in the rear end, revised engine and transmission mounts up front, ceramic brakes, a front splitter, and front canards.

![message-editor%2F1544038246848-18c0962\_002.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1544038246848-18c0962_002.jpg>)
**Daimler AG**

The bright green, off-set racing stripes are also said to add 20 grams of downforce while my editor would probably say that's some nonsense that I've just made up. *(Correct. -Ed.)*

Anywho, the Mercedes-AMG GT R Pro will only be produced for the 2020 model year and will cost somewhere north of $160,000.

## Author
Chris Tsui is *The Drive*'s former Reviews Editor and current freelance automotive journalist. He's based in Toronto.

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