Watch How Many Steps it Takes to Begin the AMG One

After 5 lengthy years, AMG One manufacturing lastly started this summer time within the U.Okay. The hybrid hypercar was first proven and introduced manner again in 2017. It’s a literal Components 1 drivetrain wedged right into a street-legal automobile, and it’s most likely one of many coolest street vehicles to ever be produced. However it’s additionally difficult as hell, which comes with the territory, after all. Now we lastly have proof of simply how difficult it’s.

In a video posted to YouTube by Shmeebites, the short-video account of widespread automobile YouTuber Shmee150, we get to see the entire course of concerned in merely beginning the engine on the AMG One. It’s like making ready a spaceship for flight. As our personal Adam Ismail highlighted this summer time: “Firing it up is an entire course of too: the entrance axle motors begin first alongside the catalytic converters, which should be preheated earlier than the combustion engine can be a part of the occasion.”

Each little bit of that is true as you’ll see under.

I counted a minimum of 4 separate steps to activate the AMG One. And that’s excluding the six completely different drive mode settings you may put it in as soon as it will get absolutely warmed and powered.

Finally although none of this may occasionally matter. It sucks to know that none of us regular individuals will ever get to expertise this rolling engineering masterpiece. And those that may get to expertise it are the 275 individuals that may afford its $2.7 million price ticket. Right here’s hoping just a few of them truly drive this masterpiece, reasonably than letting it sit in a storage someplace.