Mercedes-AMG will reveal the next-generation model of its GT two-door coupe at this yr’s Pebble Seashore Concours d’Class automobile present in California, which runs from August 17 to twenty.
The second-generation Mercedes-AMG GT two-door coupe has been captured quite a lot of occasions already, together with at this yr’s Goodwood Pageant of Velocity crashing right into a grass embankment. A photograph of it additionally leaked earlier this yr.
Design adjustments have been evolutionary. There’s nonetheless a big Panamericana grille with vertical chrome bars, in addition to swept-back headlights. The fender vents seem slimmer than earlier than.
The general look is a little more rounded-off than the previous-generation automobile, as with different latest Mercedes-Benz autos, however there are nonetheless muscular shoulders and brief overhangs.
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Goodwood Pageant of Velocity prototype
With the most recent SL having been developed by AMG, the brand new GT will function a coupe counterpart and can share its Modular Sports activities Structure (MSA) underpinnings.
A number of the SL’s powertrains, subsequently, might make their method into the closed-roof GT, although it’s unclear whether or not the GT will retain the SL’s rear seats.
The SL vary at present opens with the two.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder SL 43, which incorporates a 48V mild-hybrid system and produces 280kW of energy and 480Nm of torque.
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Beforehand leaked picture
Above it sit the twin-turbocharged 4.0-litre V8-powered SL 55 4Matic+ and SL 63 4Matic+, with the previous producing 350kW/700Nm and the latter producing 430kW/800Nm.
Quite a lot of plug-in hybrid GT prototypes have been spied as effectively. They could put on the 53 and 63 S E Efficiency nameplates.
The GT 63 S E Efficiency will doubtless use the 4.0-litre twin-turbo plug-in hybrid V8 powertrain from the unrelated AMG GT 63 S E Efficiency four-door coupe, which has complete system outputs of 620kW and 1400Nm.
The much less highly effective GT 53, in distinction, might use a model of the turbocharged 2.0-litre plug-in hybrid powertrain seen within the new C 63 S E Efficiency which has complete system outputs of 500kW and 1020Nm.
Past the reveal of the second-generation AMG GT two-door coupe, Mercedes-Benz may even exhibit a special-edition model of the AMG SL roadster. It’s unclear what this will probably be precisely at this stage.
The German carmaker may even exhibit quite a lot of its present fashions and up to date idea vehicles at Pebble Seashore.
