"There are two vehicles that will get the Black Series treatment in the "very near future."

Ed wrote these words way back at the 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show. Seems like forever ago that he was sitting down with Ola Kallenius, head of AMG, talking about upcoming models for the in-house Mercedes tuner. While they spent some time talking about the new A- and B-Class vehicles that may, eventually, get some AMG love, he was definitive that there will be two vehicles to get the black series "in the very near future." And this is the first of them.

Here we have the Mercedes-Benz C-Class AMG Black Series. It's got fender flares that could double as aluminum siding, mismatched wheels and quad exhaust and…well…that's what we know. Whether or not this Black Series is a platform image and, like the CLK AMG Black Series that came before, will be on the new C-Class Coupe due out shortly, we don't know.

Nor do we have any information on the engine. Our money's on the new twin-turbo 571-horsepower 5.5-liter V8 hooked up to the seven-speed MCT Speedshift transmission. Though one more hurrah for the 6.2 isn't out of the question.