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2018 Mercedes-AMG GT-R | All You Need To Know
The 2018 Mercedes-AMG GT R: the hottest, fastest, loudest machine in Daimler’s rapidly growing lineup of Porsche 911-fighting sports cars. It’s a not so subtle nod to the GT R’s birthplace, the fearsome Nürburgring Nordschleife, a 12.9-mile, 73-turn racetrack that swoops and sweeps through the heavily forested Eifel mountains in Germany. A racetrack nicknamed “The Green Hell.”

The people at AMG have a sense of humor. They call the GT R “the Beast from the Green Hell.” And yes, in Sport+ and Race modes it roars and snarls like an angry monster when you nail the throttle. The explosions from the exhaust when you lift off suggest you’re about to be overrun by an artillery barrage. Beyond that thundering wall of sound, though, is a carefully engineered sports car that’s crushingly fast, impressively agile, and very well mannered. But “the Scholar Athlete from the Green Hell” doesn’t make a good clickbait headline.

The GT R is the spearhead of the AMG GT family. “We put everything into this car,” AMG boss Tobias Moers says. “We invested all our heart and soul into it.” And more than a little of AMG’s race car expertise, too.

Developing 577 hp at 6,250 rpm and 516 lb-ft of torque available between 1,900 rpm and 5,500 rpm, the GT R’s engine is another iteration of AMG’s versatile 4.0-liter twin-turbo V-8. It develops 74 more horses and 37 lb-ft more torque than the version that powers our 2015 Best Driver’s Car, the GT S. That’s because new turbochargers have allowed maximum boost pressure to be increased from 17.4 psi to 19.5 psi, plus revisions to the combustion chambers, exhaust ports, and throttle mapping. The flywheel is 1.5 pounds lighter, reducing inertia and allowing the engine to rev harder, faster.
AMG’s seven-speed dual-clutch automated manual transmission, mounted between the rear wheels, is connected to the engine by a carbon-fiber torque tube that is 40 percent lighter than the cast aluminum unit used in regular GT models. The GT R’s transmission ratios are also more closely stacked. First is longer and seventh is shorter. The final drive ratio is also shorter. AMG claims the GT R will sprint to 60 mph in less than 3.5 seconds, which seems conservative given the 3.2-second time posted by the 33-pound heavier GT S during our testing. Claimed top speed is a whisker under 200 mph.
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