Mercedes-Benz AMG GT: Unimaginatively Named Product, Wildly Wacky Paint Scheme

Derek Kreindler
by Derek Kreindler

Mercedes is doing the slow burn on the AMG GT, successor to the gullwinged SLS, ahead of its debut at the Paris Auto Show in September. Even though this is just a camo wrap job, it’s not too hard to imagine this look appearing on a future customer car.

Thanks to increasingly stringent regulations, the glorious AMG V8 displacing 6.2L will die, and in its place, a 4.0L twin-turbo V8 will power future AMG models. Without the gullwing doors, some of the visual drama is lost – but perhaps we’ll get that wrap as a factory option instead. After all, something has to draw excessive attention to you and your car, now that you can’t just pop the gullwing doors open at leisure.



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  • ClutchCarGo ClutchCarGo on Jul 10, 2014

    Driving outside of Denver this past weekend, I caught a brief glimpse of something like this in black and white camo, followed by a motel stay where a group of MB engineers were caravaning around with a couple of Sprinters and what looked like a couple of minivans in camo as well.

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    • Ellomdian Ellomdian on Jul 11, 2014

      @th009 Old-school extreme Hot/Cold testing has got to be one of the most miserable jobs in the industry - once a day, go out and start the car, and then shut it off and go back inside. Blech...

  • LeMansteve LeMansteve on Jul 11, 2014

    Unimaginatively Named Product At least it isn't shamelessly adopting the GT name like so many crappy Pontiacs did. Besides, imaginative marketing managers give us horrible names like Z4 sDrive35is or Mazda Mazda3 (not a typo).

  • Master Baiter "That said, the Inflation Reduction Act apparently does run afoul of WTO rules..."Pfft. The Biden administration doesn't care about rules. The Supreme Court said they couldn't forgive student load debt; they did it anyway. Decorum and tradition says you don't prosecute former presidents; they are doing it anyway. They made the CDC suspend evictions though they had no constitutional authority to do so.
  • 1995 SC Good. To misquote Sheryl Crow "If it makes them unhappy, it can't be that bad"
  • 1995 SC The letters on the hatch aren't big enough. hard pass
  • Ajla Those letters look like they are from AutoZone.
  • Analoggrotto Kia EV9 was voted the best vehicle in the world and this is the best TOYOTA can do? Nice try, next.
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