The new plug-in hybrid model of the Mercedes-AMG GT is not only the model’s quickest-accelerating street automobile but, but in addition one of many quickest automobiles in manufacturing.
Arriving only a few months earlier than Porsche is anticipated to disclose the long-awaited hybrid version of the 911, the GT 63 S E Performance shares its electrified innards with the not too long ago revealed SL hybrid.
AMG’s twin-turbocharged 4.0-litre V8 (producing 603bhp by itself) is paired with a 201bhp electrical motor on the rear axle to offer four-wheel drive and 804bhp – greater than the Ferrari 812 Superfast and McLaren 750S – and a colossal 1047lb ft, which is among the highest torque outputs but supplied by a combustion-powered street automobile.
Those figures are sufficient to ship the GT from 0-62mph in simply 2.8sec, quicker than any AMG street automobile but, together with the 1049bhp One hypercar. In reality, it is one of many fastest-accelerating combustion automobiles in manufacturing – simply narrowly outpaced by the likes of the Porsche 911 Turbo S, Ferrari SF90 Stradale and Lamborghini Revuelto.
It will push on to a high velocity of 198mph, simply edging its barely heavier soft-top sibling.
Power for the EV motor is saved in a 6.1kWh battery that offers an electrical vary of round eight miles from a full cost, and is topped up on the transfer by way of four-stage regenerative braking to make sure “maximum propulsion is always available when the driver needs it”, says AMG.
Alternatively, the battery will be topped up at 3.7kW from a home charger.
The automobile begins up silently on the electrical motor if it is set to Comfort mode, however a “powerful, sonorous, AMG-typical” start-up sound is pumped in to the cabin by way of the stereo audio system.
The E Performance is sort of visually equivalent to the usual GT – which is obtainable already with a V8 in two states of tune and a 416bhp four-cylinder – however delicate bespoke cues embrace the pink badging, aero-optimised wheels and the cost port within the rear bumper.