Mercedes-AMG GT S: the driving test and video
Posted on 13-04-2015 to 16:00 pm by Wouter – 81 Comments”
There is a S-class in the driveway and a 911 in the garage? Then you are the prospect for a Mercedes-AMG GT, because any competitor to AMG, the arrows point with their new sports car is more than clear.
[ First look, then read? Watch the video HERE! ]
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG vs. Mercedes-AMG GT
Strictly speaking, the GT is not the successor of the SLS, but they are not next to each other in the price list at your local Mercedes-Benz dealer. If they had been, then it would be the SLS, the heavy have had. Grades wins the SLS on all fronts with more displacement, more horsepower, a higher top speed, but also a higher price. A substantially higher price even, because there is a gap of nearly a ton between the SLS and the GT-S. Part of it, is that difference explained by a higher consumption, higher CO2 emissions and thus a higher payment to The Hague. However, even without taxes, the SLS as much as 50% more expensive than the GT.
With a price of about one and a half tonnes, the performance and the lines on the back seems to be the AMG GT, it is clear that the Mercedes-Benz, the 911 emphatically on the grain.
The new V8 – a dual-charged four-cylinder
The engine displacement of 3982 cc is exactly two times the content of the block of the A45 AMG and also bore slagverhouding are exactly the same. Fast computers are also immediately that the potency of the 4.0 V8 is still not completely part of it is, because in the A45 AMG produces the four-all 360 horsepower. The most powerful GT-S now has 510 horsepower, so with this block, there is still space was, for example, an AMG GT Black Series.
For the time being the choice, however “limited” to two versions of the Mercedes-AMG GT.
ModelAMG GTAMG GT S
Cilinderinhoud3.982 cm33.982 cm3
Vermogen462 hp @ 6.000 rpm510 hp @ 6250 rpm
Koppel600 Nm @ 1.600 – 5.000 rpm650 Nm @ 1.750-4.750 rpm
Verbruik9,3 l/100 km9,4 l/100 km
CO2-emissie216 g/km219 g/km
Roadworthy gewicht1.540 kg1.570 kg
Kg/hp verhouding3,33 kg/pk3,08 kg/hp
0-100 km/u4,0 seconden3,8 seconds
Topsnelheid304 km/u310 km/h
Price€145.400€165.950
Hot inside V
Mercedes-AMG claims to be the first of the first sportwagenmotor with a hot-inside V and dry sump lubrication. That could be the block lower and continues the supply of oil even at high cornering better. The hot-inside V means that the two turbo’s is not on the outer perimeter of the engine are mounted, but within the two cilinderbanken. It makes the V8 more compact and Mercedes-AMG claims a better response of the turbo by optimum air flow.
Standard for the AMG GT S is the AMG Performance sportuitlaatsysteem with fully variable exhaust valves. With a button in the interior is the “klappenauspuff” open, and then produces the V8 so’n bake noise that I am on the highway even a little too much of the well-liked. During recess, it is really wonderful, the soundtrack is top AMG with the characteristic V8 sound. The geluidsdokters in Afalterbach had apparently no difficulty with the damping of the turbo’s in the uitlaattraject, only from the front, the SLS AMG is a beautiful aanzuiggeluid what the AMG GT will have to miss.
Drive
The C63 and E63 AMG are a type of sloophamers that with a lot of violence, a set of rear tires, but the AMG GT is of a different caliber. Even with 510 hp and 650 Nm of torque on only two paste rubber behind, the grip is fantastic. The electronically controlled differential allows for a rapid and good distribution of the power to the two rear wheels. It does that with the AMG GT-S racing turns, can accelerate. A drift down, but then you need the AMG GT pretty provocative and even then, the horsepower of the V8 especially converted into forward urge in place of a lot of bandenrook.
AMG GT versus the competition
A sports car for about one and a half tons (the Netherlands), we have, however few of. If you are the fastest accelererende want and also on the circuit prefer not to be overtaken, then the choice is easy: the Nissan GT-R. Then you stand between the Pixars and Pulsars, if your supercar is going to get and on birthdays you have to each time explain that you have a really fast Nissan. In a Porsche 911, you do that in any case, not everyone knows what that is. The 911 is slightly more sophisticated than the AMG GT and the six-cylinder boxer is much hoogtoeriger and feels more like an engine block out of the racing comes.
The V8 from the Jaguar F-type schurkt many more at the new V8 from AMG. Both have a soundtrack that fits in with a squadron of fighters to a country invades, both have a lot of torque at the bottom and a peak power, what about the 500 hp go. In terms of chassis, the F-type, however, is that, in the Jaguar can and should you more the hooligan hang out. A drift deposit in the F-type is refreshingly simple, in both the AMG GT and the 911 can do it too, but for epic smoke curtains draw is less trivial.
It makes the AMG GT a alternative for those who like a 911, but with a V8. Movie!
Gallery: Mercedes-AMG GT-S
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