Mercedes-Benz AMG GT: Unimaginatively Named Product, Wildly Wacky Paint Scheme
Published: July 10th, 2014
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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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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.
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).