AMG ONE [Official] Mercedes-AMG Project ONE
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The Mercedes-AMG One (R50, previously known as Project One) is a limited-production plug-in dual hybrid sports car manufactured by Mercedes-AMG, featuring Formula One-derived technology. Production: August 2022 – 2025 (275 units planned).
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They will test it on the Ring...?! Lap time? Will it be good enough for them to make it public...?
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Remember the Mercedes-AMG One? It’s ready for high-speed tests!
AMG’s furiously complicated F1 car for the road is gearing up for a visit to the Nürburgring
With the likes of the Aston Martin Red Bull Valkyrie and Gordon Murray T50 hogging all the supercar limelight of late, it’s about time we heard from AMG’s contender.
The Mercedes-AMG One, first revealed way back in 2017 – with deliveries promised 18 months later – has been delayed by the scale of the engineering challenge to slot a championship-winning hybrid F1 engine into a street car. The COVID-19 pandemic’s disruption will hardly have helped.
But finally, AMG says the 1,000hp+ power unit is ready to undergo final testing, announcing “for the first time, the project leaders have also authorised testing of the comprehensively electrified and highly complex hybrid power unit with its full output”.
At last, the AMG One has been unleashed from dynos and laboratories. It’s seen here on the test track at Mercedes’s proving ground in Immendingen, Germany.
However, we’re told the next destination for the One will be ‘the north loop of the Nürburgring’. Ladies and gentlemen, the long wait for AMG’s hybrid hypercar may well be about to pay off with some rather eye-opening lap times.
The powertrain in question is a 1.6-litre turbocharged V6 derived from the dominant 2016 Mercedes-AMG W07 F1 car. Like the single-seater, it uses F1-style MGU-H and MGU-K heat and kinetic energy harvesting motors to increase efficiency and boost power.
Unlike an F1 car, the One has to be able to start on a button in cold weather, idle at 1,280rpm instead of 5,000rpm, and be driveable by mere (if wealthy) mortals not named ‘Lewis Hamilton’.
Persuading the engine to accept all of the above, comply with emissions laws and still deliver the correct noise, power and rev to beyond 11,000rpm has been what AMG’s finest engineers might politely call ‘a bit of a head-scratcher’.
Meanwhile, the One’s trick aero is also starting to show its worth. AMG tells us “the complex interplay between the various active components such as the louvres, the air outlets in the front fenders or the large rear aerofoil is now confirming its effectiveness even outside the wind tunnel as a means of delivering the car’s exceptional lateral dynamics”.
The first of the 275 examples of the One are due to be delivered to their patiently waiting buyers next year, each of whom has shelled out a cool £2million for the honour.
Before then, we’ll hopefully discover if AMG’s road-legal F1 car can indeed achieve 0-124mph in sub-6.0 seconds, top out at 217mph, and if it really does, as claimed by ex-AMG Boss Tobias Moers, lap the ‘Ring ‘like a GT3 racing car in fast-forward’…
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AMG’s furiously complicated F1 car for the road is gearing up for a visit to the Nürburgring
With the likes of the Aston Martin Red Bull Valkyrie and Gordon Murray T50 hogging all the supercar limelight of late, it’s about time we heard from AMG’s contender.
The Mercedes-AMG One, first revealed way back in 2017 – with deliveries promised 18 months later – has been delayed by the scale of the engineering challenge to slot a championship-winning hybrid F1 engine into a street car. The COVID-19 pandemic’s disruption will hardly have helped.
But finally, AMG says the 1,000hp+ power unit is ready to undergo final testing, announcing “for the first time, the project leaders have also authorised testing of the comprehensively electrified and highly complex hybrid power unit with its full output”.
At last, the AMG One has been unleashed from dynos and laboratories. It’s seen here on the test track at Mercedes’s proving ground in Immendingen, Germany.
However, we’re told the next destination for the One will be ‘the north loop of the Nürburgring’. Ladies and gentlemen, the long wait for AMG’s hybrid hypercar may well be about to pay off with some rather eye-opening lap times.
The powertrain in question is a 1.6-litre turbocharged V6 derived from the dominant 2016 Mercedes-AMG W07 F1 car. Like the single-seater, it uses F1-style MGU-H and MGU-K heat and kinetic energy harvesting motors to increase efficiency and boost power.
Unlike an F1 car, the One has to be able to start on a button in cold weather, idle at 1,280rpm instead of 5,000rpm, and be driveable by mere (if wealthy) mortals not named ‘Lewis Hamilton’.
Persuading the engine to accept all of the above, comply with emissions laws and still deliver the correct noise, power and rev to beyond 11,000rpm has been what AMG’s finest engineers might politely call ‘a bit of a head-scratcher’.
Meanwhile, the One’s trick aero is also starting to show its worth. AMG tells us “the complex interplay between the various active components such as the louvres, the air outlets in the front fenders or the large rear aerofoil is now confirming its effectiveness even outside the wind tunnel as a means of delivering the car’s exceptional lateral dynamics”.
The first of the 275 examples of the One are due to be delivered to their patiently waiting buyers next year, each of whom has shelled out a cool £2million for the honour.
Before then, we’ll hopefully discover if AMG’s road-legal F1 car can indeed achieve 0-124mph in sub-6.0 seconds, top out at 217mph, and if it really does, as claimed by ex-AMG Boss Tobias Moers, lap the ‘Ring ‘like a GT3 racing car in fast-forward’…
Remember the Mercedes-AMG One? It’s ready for high-speed tests!
AMG’s furiously complicated F1 car for the road is gearing up for a visit to the Nürburgring
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Mercedes-AMG Project ONE: testing reaches an exciting phase
Several prototypes featuring the final power unit are undergoing dynamic testing
Affalterbach. The development of the Mercedes-AMG Project ONE hypercar is entering a new phase, so bringing it ever closer to production standard: several pre-production models are now practising their fast laps at the company's own proving ground and technology centre at Immendingen. Testing has thus now largely transferred from the test stands to concentrate more and more on test tracks. For the first time, the project leaders have also authorised testing of the comprehensively electrified and highly complex hybrid power unit with its full output of more than 735 kW (1000 hp).
Along with the dynamic test programme and some refinements to the car's driveability, development work is also focused on its active aerodynamics. The complex interplay between the various active components such as the louvres, the air outlets in the front fenders or the large rear aerofoil is now confirming its effectiveness even outside the wind tunnel as a means of delivering the car's exceptional lateral dynamics.
The objective of reaching a new dimension of driving dynamics and performance for a road-going vehicle with the Project ONE and thereby setting a new milestone in automotive history is thus gradually drawing closer for
Mercedes-AMG. The adaptation of a complete Formula 1 drive unit for a hypercar with road approval, which along with its impressive driving dynamics must also deliver perfectly in terms of everyday performance and be able to drive in all-electric mode, represented a tremendous challenge. As far as many aspects were concerned, such as noise level, the development team ventured into uncharted territory with this project, working with great tenacity and exceptional engineering expertise to find solutions that could be developed to series maturity.
In parallel to the extensive dynamic testing being undertaken with the project vehicles, the attendant development work also continues on this extraordinary hybrid vehicle from Mercedes-AMG at the company's base in Affalterbach. The various vehicle systems are put meticulously through their paces on the engine test beds and in the in-house simulator. The next step in this extensive programme of testing and development is already clear: the performance of the Project ONE will shortly also be tested on the north loop of the Nürburgring.
Several prototypes featuring the final power unit are undergoing dynamic testing
Affalterbach. The development of the Mercedes-AMG Project ONE hypercar is entering a new phase, so bringing it ever closer to production standard: several pre-production models are now practising their fast laps at the company's own proving ground and technology centre at Immendingen. Testing has thus now largely transferred from the test stands to concentrate more and more on test tracks. For the first time, the project leaders have also authorised testing of the comprehensively electrified and highly complex hybrid power unit with its full output of more than 735 kW (1000 hp).
Along with the dynamic test programme and some refinements to the car's driveability, development work is also focused on its active aerodynamics. The complex interplay between the various active components such as the louvres, the air outlets in the front fenders or the large rear aerofoil is now confirming its effectiveness even outside the wind tunnel as a means of delivering the car's exceptional lateral dynamics.
The objective of reaching a new dimension of driving dynamics and performance for a road-going vehicle with the Project ONE and thereby setting a new milestone in automotive history is thus gradually drawing closer for
Mercedes-AMG. The adaptation of a complete Formula 1 drive unit for a hypercar with road approval, which along with its impressive driving dynamics must also deliver perfectly in terms of everyday performance and be able to drive in all-electric mode, represented a tremendous challenge. As far as many aspects were concerned, such as noise level, the development team ventured into uncharted territory with this project, working with great tenacity and exceptional engineering expertise to find solutions that could be developed to series maturity.
In parallel to the extensive dynamic testing being undertaken with the project vehicles, the attendant development work also continues on this extraordinary hybrid vehicle from Mercedes-AMG at the company's base in Affalterbach. The various vehicle systems are put meticulously through their paces on the engine test beds and in the in-house simulator. The next step in this extensive programme of testing and development is already clear: the performance of the Project ONE will shortly also be tested on the north loop of the Nürburgring.
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James Bond's car of courseCan anyone advise which model is the masked car at 0:07?
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And the Valkyrie is in serious trouble and risks not even being completed. I love reading clueless people talking about how this car is taking so long to get to market, completely ignoring that the time from concept to production is normal like many other other cars of it's type, yet what Mercedes is trying to do here is anything but normal.
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It seems like Mercedes has finally overcome some of the largest hurdles hampering the development (or, at the very least, that's the image they are projecting now), so that's nice. But it's worth pointing out that people talking about how long the car is taking to get to market is of Mercedes's own doing. They themselves said the car would come out in 2019. So the car is gonna be 2 years late, that's just the fact of it. Considering the development started in 2015, that's 6 years to get the car on the street - which is definitely not "normal". 6 years is two generations of 911 coming and going. The Valkyrie development started in 2014, was supposed to come out in 2018, now in 2021 if at all. So even worse with 7 year development time. 4 year development time was what was planned for both these cars and the T.50 (which started development in very early 2018 and is supposed to come out in early 2022) is also on a 4 year plan. So that's what the standard seems to be for a brand leading, cutting edge supercar.
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Let’s not get carried away here- the 991 was made from 2013-2019. 2 generations have certainly not come and gone during this car’s development. This will be out before the 992 gets its facelift.
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Yeah, well, I count in GT3/Turbo variants, so including the facelifts.
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Well considering what they're developing here, which is anything but a normal or even cutting edge supercar, I don't see an issue. I can't imagine the nightmare of taking a F1 powertrain and making it street legal. A 911 doesn't even remotely compare so I don't see the point of bringing it up and those two generations of 911 are the same car underneath, this F1 is not based on any existing vehicle in the Mercedes production stable.
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Mercedes-AMG
Mercedes-AMG GmbH, commonly known as AMG (Aufrecht, Melcher, Großaspach),
is the high-performance subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz AG. AMG independently
hires engineers and contracts with manufacturers to customize Mercedes-Benz
AMG vehicles. The company has its headquarters in Affalterbach,
Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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