AMG ONE [Official] Mercedes-AMG Project ONE

[fortuner]

The front lights are differnt I think from the one we saw in the show...

 

[DjordjeC63]

^ paint is also different

 

[StartYourEngines]

Don't know if it has already been posted here, but there is a new article from Carmagazine regarding the Project One being spotted during tests with apparently a lot of juicy info:

Mercedes-AMG Project One prototype snapped in the UK

To recap:

- Top speed beyond 350 km/h
- 1.6 V6 revving to more than 11000 rpm and making 603 bhp
- Overall power output being of 1086 bhp, which become 1134 bhp in overboost mode
- Xtrac hydraulically actuated eight-speed automated manual gearbox
- Pure electric range of 15 miles when fully charged
- Weight assumed to be not much more than 1200 kg (420 kg are due to batteries and electric motors). It is however not understood if this figure will be for dry or kerb weight

 

[hovabongZA]

No matter how it turns out ...kudos to Mercedes Benz for even making this car. They have a Supercar now a hypercar.

 

[bmwz4coupe]

1200 kg must be dry. Can't imagine how this car will have a real kerb weight of less than 1400 kg.

 

[StartYourEngines]

1200 kg must be dry. Can't imagine how this car will have a real kerb weight of less than 1400 kg.

Yeah I agree.
Given the multiple electric motors, the turbocharging (albeit the F1-derived 1.6 liter engine is incredibly small and compact), the AWD system, it would be really difficult for the Project One to be 1200 kg kerb.

Nevertheless, a dry weight between 1200 and 1300 kg would still mean a 1400-1500 kg kerb weight, which would be some 300+ kg lighter than what the 918 used to be, which is a car with very similar architecture.
This would be a GREAT technical result and achievement.

 

[klier]

Nevertheless, a dry weight between 1200 and 1300 kg would still mean a 1400-1500 kg kerb weight, which would be some...

Dear Lord, 300 hp less than a 918 and something like 300 hp more?

Please hold me...

 

[hannaz]

Dear Lord, 300 hp less than a 918 and something like 300 hp more?

Please hold me...

300hp or kg?

 

[klier]

300hp or kg?

Both. It will weigh 300 kg less than a 918 and have 300 hp more.
I' going to be the baddest car ever made, setting a whole new level for hypercar performance.

The Valkyrie is not really a street car after all, more like a race machine. Whereas the Project One will be a real Mercedes from the inside, including creature comforts......

 

[Matski]

The Valkyrie is not really a street car after all, more like a race machine. Whereas the Project One will be a realMercedes from the inside, including creature comforts......

If they're both street legal, they're both street cars - since neither is about taste or class, just performance, the bragging rights will come down to which is faster. In either case you'll look like a total nob driving one anywhere other than the track anyway. It's one thing I think the Chiron gets exactly right... ostensibly it's a high performance car, and a lot of it's form is derived from that function, but it doesn't look so out of place on the street. It's still a grotesque demonstration of being richer than everyone else, but at least it's an appropriate one.

The question of which is faster is going to be a hotly debated topic. No doubt fans on both sides will be choosing the set of criteria that shows their chosen brand in the most favourable light, as the most relevant one.

 

[klier]

The question of which is faster is going to be a hotly debated topic.

Between the Valkyrie and Project one I don't think it'll be a contest. Valkyrie will be much quicker.
But like I said, I hardly call it a car even though some version will be street legal.

The Project One is more in the vein of 918, P1, LaF, etc. More 'car' if you know what I mean. I'm not quite sure how to say it.

 

[Monster]

The Project One is more in the vein of 918, P1, LaF, etc. More 'car' if you know what I mean. I'm not quite sure how to say it.

The Project One is far less compromised than the Valkyrie, IMO the Valkyrie is more like a highly advanced version of the BAC Mono and the KTM x bow than a road based hyper car like the 918, P1, LaF.

 

[bmwz4coupe]

Looking at the available data the Valkyrie should be fastest, but I have a feeling the Mercedes will be a very effective car in the same way the 918 was in comparison with P1 and LaFerrari even if it was heavier and had less hp.

 

[Matski]

The Project One is far less compromised than the Valkyrie, IMO the Valkyrie is more like a highly advanced version of the BAC Mono and the KTM x bow than a road based hyper car like the 918, P1, LaF.

To me, that makes the AMG more compromised. If it makes concessions for anything other than performance, then it's a compromise. Unless these aren't supposed to be the apex of performance cars? And if they aren't, then they sure as shit aren't the best looking or most luxurious cars out there.

 

[Grosser]

So you would rather go in and out from your 2+ million car like this:

or like this:

I don't think Mercedes customers are used to that cramped space like in Aston.

 

[Matski]

So you would rather go in and out from your 2+ million car like this:

I don't thinkMercedes customers....

I'm neither fat or old, and I don't take myself that seriously that I'd have an issue with it no matter how much the car cost... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If I had remote window winders I'd get into every car Dukes of Hazzard style.

 

[bmwz4coupe]

To me, that makes the AMG more compromised. If it makes concessions for anything other than performance, then it's a compromise. Unless these aren't supposed to be the apex of performance cars? And if they aren't, then they sure as shit aren't the best looking or most luxurious cars out there.

I think many sees the Valkyrie as less a street car because it has a more kit car look. Let's see when they get out and are being tested wich is the most streetable, and more interesting wich is the fastest....

 

[bmwz4coupe]

So you would rather go in and out from your 2+ million car like this:

or like this:

I don't think Mercedes customers are used to that cramped space like in Aston.

True, this door opening is definetely not very street car friendly. But then this car is not made for daily driving to the work. Many of its customers will not be able to get in/out of the car. And also most of these cars will unfornately stand unused in a garage most of the time (or all the time).

 

[Gamblerman]

 

[hoffmeister_fan]

I am make three guesses...

If it's actual name, then

Spoiler: Spoiler

Fangio

since it seems like they are trying to evoke a bit of that old-school race-car charm.

If it's model designation with letters/numbers, then

Spoiler

SLM because since it wants to evoke lightness so, it's "slim" (I am half-joking), but since it's sort of looks like a modern Le Mans racer. Or Formula EQ, to emphasize both it's F1 roots and it's electric powerplant.