2018 Mercedes-AMG GT R

Redefining Supercar Performance
Germans are not typically given to hyperbole. But when Tobias Moers, the head of Mercedes-Benz’s AMG division, says about the Mercedes-AMG GT R, “We put everything into this car. We invested all our heart and soul into it…” you better sit up and pay attention! That’s because the AMG Petronas Formula One team has dominated F1—the pinnacle of motorsports—for three seasons, winning 51 of 59 races and earning three driver and manufacturer championships. Mercedes-Benz has made it clear that they are in motorsports to expand their corporation’s technical and engineering knowledge and then apply what they have learned to the cars they sell. Nowhere is that more apparent than with the soon-to-be-released Mercedes-AMG GT R, a Mercedes-Benz they call “a track car off the showroom floor.”
Unique to the AMG brand are handmade “One Man – One Engine” (signed by the craftsman who built it) p