AMG GT R Slips Through the Scene On Black Vossens

Custom-made by TOYZ autoart, matte black AMG GT R receives costly set of Vossen EVO-2R wheels in Satin Black, stars in Vossen promo vid.

There’s nothing just like the Mercedes-AMG GT R. The roadster knocks out the competitors with a twin-turbo, handcrafted 4.0-liter V8 ramming down 577 horses all around the monitor. And cornering is a breeze due to its sport suspension with energetic rear-wheel steering. Plus, the Airscarf function retains your neck heat with the highest down and the cool morning breeze dashing overhead. The GT R is sort of the automotive.

Thus, solely the best set of aftermarket wheels will do. Autoevolution discovered such an instance just lately, shod in Vossen EVO-2Rs. Let’s study extra about this explicit GT R, and why it has the wheels it has.

Custom-made in Laval, Quebec by TOYZ autoart, the GT R wears a matte black wrap over its physique. In any other case, not a lot else has modified. Not a lot, aside from the wheels. As a substitute of what Affalterbach affords from the manufacturing unit, TOYZ autoart swapped out the inventory wheels for Vossen EVO-2Rs. Dipped in Satin Black, the AMG options 19s up entrance, 20s within the rear, all shod in Pirelli P-Zeroes.

Vossen’s EVO-2R wheels should not your low cost Walmart items, to say the least. Monoblock variations begin at $2,200, whereas three-piece fashions start at $2,600. Sizes vary from 19 to 24 inches, with 48 colours out there. That’s proper: 48 colours. You possibly can match your rims to your individual GT R’s colour. This set of 4 involves a complete of $9,400, based on Autoevolution. That’s $2,300 for the entrance pair, $2,400 for the rear.

In fact, when you may have a showcase just like the GT R, you’ll wish to take it out for a drive. Thus, Vossen filmed a brief video for his or her YouTube channel via a quiet neighborhood with numerous inexperienced timber and good houses to cruise on by. It didn’t keep quiet, although; arduous to be quiet with a twin-turbo V8 sputtering and roaring, in spite of everything. The picture ops close to the lake are a pleasant contact, too, demonstrating the quiet confidence the AMG possesses.

We’ve got to say Vossen selected the best trip to point out off their latest set of wheels.

Photographs: Autoevolution, Vossen

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Cameron Aubernon’s path to automotive journalism started within the early New ’10s. Again then, a buddy of hers thought she was an impartial trend blogger.

Aubernon wasn’t, so she turned one, masking trend in her personal manner for the following few years.

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