Welcome back to RBR, and today we have the first full look at one of #AMG’s most important cars for the future: the new Mercedes-AMG GT 63 4-Door Coupé!
The pretender “EQ AMGs” are dead — and this is truly #MercedesAMG ’s first ground-up electric performance car on the new AMG.EA platform. This is a proper Affalterbach product from the start just like the SLS and #AMGGT, but in a world’s first: features three axial flux motors, which have only been seen in hyper and supercars so far! These give up to 1,169PS, 2,000Nm, 0-100km/h in just 2.1 seconds with rollout, and a top speed of 300km/h. Oh, and a 0-200 faster than the AMG ONE Hypercar!!
But the biggest surprise is not just the speed. It’s the way AMG has tried to install some emotion.
In Sport+ and Race, the new GT 4-Door uses AMGFORCE S+ mode — a V8-inspired driving experience based around the sound of the AMG GT R, complete with simulated gearshifts, haptic shift moments, and a 9-speed-style character built directly into the car’s performance modes. It is controversial, but after driving it at Papenburg, it may also be one of the most interesting things AMG has done in the electric era!
Today we will take a first look, and then we drive it too! First we will take a full tour of the new AMG GT 4-Door in two very different specifications, including the wild Magno Sunny Lime car and a cleaner Magno White example — with their two controversial lighting options. We’ll look at the final production design, how it compares to the Concept AMG GT XX, the current AMG GT two-door and the previous combustion GT 4-Door, before opening up the RBR Technical Domain to see what’s really underneath.
The technology is serious: three axial flux motors, a 106kWh battery, 800V architecture, up to 600kW charging, active aerodynamics, AMG Active Ride Control suspension, rear-axle steering, carbon-ceramic brakes with 700kw recuperation, and a full AMG Race Engineer control system for traction/drift control inside the cabin:
In this video we’ll cover:
New Mercedes-AMG GT 63 4-Door exterior design
AMG.EA electric performance platform
Three axial flux motor layout
GT 63 and GT 55 performance figures
106kWh battery and 600kW charging tech
Active AEROKINETICS aero system
AMG Active Ride Control suspension
New AMG interior and Race Engineer controls
AMGFORCE S+ V8 sound mode
First driving impressions from Papenburg
The question is simple: has AMG finally found a way to make an electric performance car feel like a real AMG?
And more importantly… would you take this alongside a real AMG V8?! Because I am! :)
