With the new Mercedes-AMG GT Concept, Stuttgart’s
performance brand is giving us a preview of its upcoming four-door sports car
at the Geneva Motor Show.
Mercedes-Benz has offered no other details on the
study. That leaves us to ponder if it’s an entirely new four-door coupe that will be sold alongside the third-generation CLS sedan and which looks nothing like this concept, or a replacement of sorts to the CLS Shooting Brake with a
liftback style rear end to compete with Porsche’s newborn Panamera Sports
Tourer.
The production AMG GT that might
end up being called the AMG GT4 to indicate its visual and performance relation
to the AMG GT coupe, could be based on Mercedes’ MRA modular platform shared
with the C63, E63 and S63 models.
It would makes sense for AMG to make use of the E63
S’ 4.0-liter bi-turbocharged V8 that’s good for 604 hp and 850 Nm and which catapults the top E-Class sedan to 100 km/h
in 3.3 sec.
With the Geneva Motor Show just around the corner,
it won’t be long before we get more answers on the AMG GT Concept.
