{"id":689697,"date":"2025-10-20T01:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=689697"},"modified":"2025-10-20T13:26:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:26:26","slug":"book-mercedes-amg-race-bred-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/book-mercedes-amg-race-bred-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: MERCEDES-AMG: RACE-BRED PERFORMANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MERCEDES-AMG: RACE-BRED PERFORMANCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This big, hard cover, coffee table tome is a must for owners and enthusiasts of the legendary Mercedes-AMG. Author Matt DeLorenzo tells how AMG went from independent tuner to official Mercedes-Benz partner, and ultimately, to a fully integrated performance division.<\/p>\n<p>Their incredible cars are showcased &#8211; from the brutal Black Series to today&#8217;s electrified hypercars, including the Hammer, C63 and many others. AMG&#8217;s racing history, prototypes, special editions, and motorsport milestones are also covered. The author is a longtime automotive writer, having been the editor of Autoweek, a staffer at Automotive News, and both Detroit editor and editor-in-chief at<br \/>\nRoad &amp; Track magazine.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-689698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-20-132046.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"624\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-689699\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-20-132113-615x441.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-20-132113-615x441.png 615w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-20-132113.png 737w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-689700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-20-132121-615x438.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-20-132121-615x438.png 615w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-20-132121-768x547.png 768w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-20-132121.png 863w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-689701\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-20-132127-615x441.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-20-132127-615x441.png 615w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-20-132127-768x551.png 768w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-20-132127.png 867w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MERCEDES-AMG: RACE-BRED PERFORMANCE This big, hard cover, coffee table tome is a must for owners and enthusiasts of the legendary Mercedes-AMG. Author Matt DeLorenzo tells how AMG went from independent tuner to official Mercedes-Benz partner, and ultimately, to a fully integrated performance division. Their incredible cars are showcased &#8211; from the brutal Black Series to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":689702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689703,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689697\/revisions\/689703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}