Mercedes-AMG GT plug-in hybrid to bring 804bhp and 1047lb ft

Mercedes-AMG volition uncover the caller plug-in hybrid mentation of its GT super-coupé aboriginal this month, having shown a prototype astatine the Munich centrifugal amusement past year. 

Named the GT 63 S E Performance, it volition usage the aforesaid powertrain arsenic the precocious unveiled Mercedes-AMG SL 63 E Performance roadster, which pairs the GT 63's twin-turbocharged 4.0-litre V8 with a rear-mounted electrical motor, giving combined outputs of 804bhp and 1047lb ft.

In the drop-top, those monstrous figures let for a McLaren 750S-baiting 0-62mph clip of 2.9sec and a apical velocity of 196mph, and the coupé is expected to broadly lucifer that.

Meanwhile, a "lightweight, high-performance" 400V artillery mounted nether the footwear volition proviso a powerfulness boost nether acceleration and capable vigor connected a afloat complaint for 8 miles of driving with the motor off. 

It's expected to get the convertible's carbon-ceramic brakes, too, positive standard-fit rear-axle steering and subtle aerodynamically optimised styling cues.  

The caller mentation of the GT is the sixth PHEV from Mercedes' performance division, joining the electrified S63, SL 63, C63, GT 63 4-Door Coupé and One hypercar. 

AMG hasn't fixed immoderate denotation of motorboat day oregon pricing, but PHEV powerfulness is expected to propulsion the GT past the £200,000 mark.

2024 Mercedes-AMG GT: Every information and figure

The caller GT has been comprehensively re-engineered successful a programme that has twinned its development with that of the latest SL, alongside which it is produced astatine the Mercedes-Benz factory successful Bremen, Germany.

Larger and heavier but besides roomier and arguably much applicable than its predecessor, it forgoes the two-seat layout that has characterised the top-of-the-line AMG exemplary since its instauration successful 2014 for a 2+2 interior plan that, successful operation with a larger and much accessible boot, aims to supply it with greater mundane functionality.

As with the intimately related SL, the GT adopts a afloat adaptable four-wheel thrust strategy arsenic modular for the archetypal time. It replaces the rear-wheel thrust statement utilized previously, providing the caller coupé with what Schiebe describes arsenic “a overmuch broader dispersed of driving characteristics, unneurotic with greater traction and added information successful each upwind conditions”.

The 5th series-production roadworthy car to beryllium developed ground-up by AMG launched successful 2 guises - some featuring the company's hand-assembled, twin-turbocharged 4.0-litre V8 petrol engine. The caller GT 55 4Matic+ develops 469bhp and 516lb ft of torque, with the range-topping GT 63 4Matic+ offering 577bhp and 590lb ft - some upgrades implicit the equivalent versions of the first-gen GT. 

A four-cylinder AMG GT 43 was precocious added to the ranks, with the 416bhp centrifugal from the A45 super-hatch, but determination are nary plans to bring it to the UK. 

The updated V8, which Schiebe says volition beryllium made compliant with Euro 7 emanation regulations erstwhile required, operates successful operation with a nine-speed AMG Speedshift automatic gearbox featuring a bedewed 'starter' clutch successful spot of a accepted torque converter. Mounted straight to the extremity of the reworked V8, it replaces the earlier GT's seven-speed dual-clutch transaxle unit, which was sited wrong the rear axle assembly. Also included is an electronically controlled rear-locking differential.

Despite differing specifications, Mercedes-AMG quotes the aforesaid 1970kg kerb value for the V8 cars. The 55 claims an authoritative 0-62mph clip of 3.9sec and a 183mph apical speed, portion the 63 offers 3.2sec and 196mph, it says.

Average substance depletion is enactment astatine 20.0mpg for some models for combined CO2 emissions of 319g/km connected the WLTP trial cycle.

The ground for the GT is simply a recently developed assemblage operation shared with the SL. It uses a worldly premix consisting of aluminium, composite fibre materials, magnesium and steel.

The styling draws heavy connected the first-generation model, with a accepted cab-back illustration dictated by a agelong bonnet, curved roofline and angled liftback tailgate.

Among the aerodynamic developments is simply a alleged "active aerial power system" wrong the grille to change the travel of aerial to the motor bay, a carbonfibre constituent wrong the underbody which lowers by 40mm to make a wind-cheating Venturi effect and a retractable rear spoiler that automatically deploys astatine 50mph and offers up to 5 antithetic helping space positions. 

Buyers tin besides enactment the caller GT with an aerodynamic package. It includes tiny winglets connected the outer sections of the beforehand bumper and instrumentality arches, arsenic good arsenic a fixed rear wing.

Both the 55 and the 63 person modular 20in wheels, shod with 295/35 (front) and 305/35 (rear) illustration tyres. Buyers tin specify f 21in wheels arsenic an option.

At 4728mm successful length, 1984mm successful width and 1354mm successful height, the caller coupé is 182mm longer, 45mm wider and 66mm taller than the first-generation GT. It besides has a wheelbase that is 70mm longer than before, astatine 2700mm.

With the SL taking the relation of the earlier GT roadster, the caller GT volition beryllium produced exclusively successful coupé guise, with a near-identical cockpit to its soft-top sibling.

Included among the integer appointments is simply a 12.3in instrumentality sheet and 11.9in portrait-oriented infotainment show – some featuring AMG-specific graphics and menus, including a modular AMG Track Pace relation that allows the operator to show up to 40 antithetic conveyance parameters, including thigh and assemblage times, steering angle, brake pedal actuation.

The caller GT besides receives an AMG Performance steering instrumentality and sculptured beforehand athletics seats with integrated headrests – the second disposable with optional ventilation and automatically actuated broadside bolsters that constrictive successful the Sport, Sport+ and Race driving modes.

The caller idiosyncratic rear seats are constricted successful limb and caput country and are suitable for children only. They tin beryllium folded down to widen the nominal 321 litres of footwear abstraction underneath the cargo unsighted to up to 675 litres. By comparison, the aged GT offered 285 litres, portion the SL offers 213 litres.

The GT receives caller aluminium double-wishbone AMG Active Ride Control suspension. It uses perpetually adaptable physics damping, alloy coil springs and progressive rotation stabilisation with hydraulic elements successful spot of accepted anti-roll bars to suppress assemblage roll. Buyers tin bid an optional assistance strategy offering an added 30mm of crushed clearance.

The caller coupé besides adopts four-wheel steering arsenic standard, with the rear wheels offering up to 2.5deg of steering angle. The brakes harvester 390mm alloy discs with six-piston aluminium calipers up beforehand with 360mm alloy discs and single-piston floating aluminium calipers astatine the rear. 

A caller AMG Dynamic Select controller offers the operator the prime of six driving modes – Slippery, Comfort, Sport, Sport+ and Race – and the AMG Dynamics ESC strategy allows the operator to change the level of involution crossed 3 steps.