Mercedes Hints At Imminent Nurburgring Report With AMG One Hypercar

In August, a video captured the Mercedes-AMG One finishing high-speed laps on the Nurburgring race monitor. On the time, we thought that Mercedes was getting ready to set a brand new lap file on the well-known course, and immediately, a brand new Fb submit from the corporate hints at that actuality.

The automaker posted three images of the AMG One on the Nurburgring race monitor. The corporate additionally included a caption that reads, “It’s time to witness one thing large. One thing that all of us have been ready for. Are you prepared for a brand new milestone?.” It additionally tells folks to “Keep tuned for a problem of the monumental form…”

The present manufacturing car file holder is a tuned Porsche 911 GT2 RS. The coupe accomplished the course in 6 minutes, 43 seconds flat. The AMG GT Black Collection was the earlier file holder, lapping the monitor in 6:43.61, and we already know that the AMG One trounces the Black Collection in a drag race. That bodes properly for the One’s Nurburgring lap time.

The AMG is a potent machine that shouldn’t have any bother setting a brand new file. The automobile packs a 1.6-liter V6 engine with an electrically assisted turbocharger, and that’s not the one factor powered by electrons within the automobile. The One additionally has 4 electrical motors and an 8.4-kilowatt-hour battery. The entire output is 1,049 horsepower (782 kilowatts). Mercedes says the One can hit 62 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour) in 2.9 seconds and 124 mph (200 kph) in 7.0 seconds. It has a 213-mph (352-kph) high velocity.

Serving to the AMG One navigate its means across the Nurburgring shall be its push-rod suspension and adjustable struts. A strong Observe Mode with Race Plus and Strat2 settings permits the automobile to generate as much as 5 instances extra downforce than in its normal configuration, which will even assist the automobile set a unbelievable lap time.

The submit doesn’t say when Mercedes may announce the “new milestone,” however we doubt we must wait too lengthy to be taught the time. Manufacturing for the hand-made hypercar began in August, with Mercedes constructing simply 275 automobiles.