MERCEDES-AMG has made accessible its GT S E Efficiency flagship in Australia, virtually two years after the mannequin’s international debut.
Priced from $399,900 plus on-road prices, the plug-in hybrid four-door/four-seat ‘GT’ is the most costly Mercedes-AMG to but be provided Down Underneath (assuming you don’t embody the uncommon 2021 GT Black Sequence), and is the one variant now provided with the atmo GT 63 S now not accessible.
Combining a 4.0-litre twin-turbocharged V8 with an electrical motor, the GT outputs a powerful 620kW of energy and an immense 1400Nm of torque. The figures make the collection manufacturing mannequin not solely the most costly the German model has ever provided domestically, but additionally essentially the most highly effective.
It’s also loads quick, with a neck-stretching 0-100km/h time of simply 2.9 seconds. High velocity is listed at 316km/h.
With a 150kW/320Nm electrical motor on the rear axle – hooked as much as a two-speed transmission and digital restricted slip differential – the GT’s ‘electrical’ aspect is fed by a floor-mounted 6.1kWh liquid-cooled lithium-ion battery pack.
The rear-set e-motor can be utilized to drive the entrance axle and is hooked into the automobile’s normal 4Matic all-wheel drive system. Mercedes-AMG says the unit can present as much as 12km of all-electric vary, whereas additionally contributing to a mixed cycle gasoline consumption determine of seven.7 litres per 100km.
However the digital trickery doesn’t cease there. The Mercedes-AMG GT S E Efficiency is additional geared up with 48-volt delicate hybrid expertise within the type of a starter/generator set between the engine and the nine-speed automated transmission.
The motorsport-derived system is designed to make sure the PHEV battery by no means runs flat, guaranteeing there’s loads of cost for, , hoofing it.
“The optimised weight distribution, very best utilisation of torque, and the very quick energy supply promise driving dynamics on the highest degree,” defined Mercedes-AMG chief technical officer, Jochen Hermann.
“Added to that is the high-performance battery developed in-house, which has twice the ability density of standard drive batteries and, like many different elements, is impressed by expertise from Components 1.”
After all, being a plug-in hybrid, the GT may additionally be charged at house, and gives a most AC charging fee of three.7kW.
There are additionally carbon ceramic brakes, adaptive air suspension and an in depth array of energetic security expertise to be discovered.
The cabin of the GT is bristling with the anticipated ranges of expertise and security, and lashings of high-end accoutrements.
Merc’s twin 12.3-inch big-screen MBUX system options AMG-specific shows whereas additionally offering instrumentation and infotainment content material. There’s a head-up show entrance and centre, too, and a glass-rattling 14-speaker Burmester encompass sound system.
Tri-zone local weather management options alongside heated and cooled entrance pews, heated rear seats, heated armrests, power-closing doorways, 64-colour LED ambient lighting and far, way more.
2023 Mercedes-AMG GT S E Efficiency pricing*:
GT S E Efficiency (a) | $399,900 | New variant |
*Pricing excludes on-road prices.
