MERCEDES-AMG has been on a bit of a roll for a while now, churning out performance-focused models that deliver time and time again. But in its short history as a ‘standalone’ manufacturer, it has only produced two completely in-house products.

The first, of course, was the gullwinged SLS from a decade ago, and the other is its predecessor, the ever so slightly more conventional GT. For the latter, it’s facelift time, and thankfully Mercedes-AMG isn’t messing around.

Well, we say that, but Affalterbach hasn’t actually done that much to its flagship model this time around, and as we found out at the facelift’s national media launch in country Victoria, that’s no bad thing at all.