Since the Mercedes-AMG One supercar is still in hiding, pixel manipulators are taking matters into their own hands. The latest one to do so is Rain Prisk, who imagined a hypothetical Affalterbach born and raised supercar aimed at the Audi R8, as he puts it.

That grille looks a bit mundane, right?

We usually decide not to nitpick on a rendering artist’s work simply because we couldn’t do a better job at that. And while we like this one, the front grille has too much of a run-of-the-mill Mercedes in it. It just looks like the grille of CLS.

The headlights are cool, though, perhaps a bit too Hyundai Kona Electric-like. Otherwise, the design study looks like it has the right proportions and it will surely make us wonder why on Earth isn’t the Project One out there yet.

Last time we heard about the F1-inspired Mercedes-AMG supercar happened back in August, when a video of the One going through track testing popped up on YouTube. It turns out that Mercedes-AMG has already built a few developmental prototypes of the 1,000-horsepower, F1-engined supercar and it deployed them on its test track at Immendingen.

The video also asked us to stay tuned for the next steps, which is good news and perhaps suggests that come 2021, we’ll see the AMG One in the metal sans the camouflage wraps.

As for the R8-rivalling render, it would have to pack a naturally-aspirated V-10 of sorts to make it all fair and square. That’s a type of mill that Mercedes-AMG doesn’t make. Unless it still has lying around the old F1-spec naturally-aspirated V-10 used back in 2005 in the Great Circus.