A few weeks before its official debut, Mercedes released several official camouflaged photos of the new Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe during its final testing phase in northern Sweden. On this occasion, they also revealed some additional technical details.
The new Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe is close to its official launch, which will take place in just a few weeks. It is a crucial model for the AMG division, being the first built on the new dedicated high-performance electric platform, AMG.EA.
Although other models of this kind, such as the Porsche Taycan, are not sold in large volumes, Mercedes-AMG believes that the new platform with axial-flux motors and the new ultra-sporty drivetrain will attract more customers to this fully electric model, which in the medium term will replace the combustion-engine Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe.
This combustion-engine model is no longer available on the European market, but it can still be ordered in the USA in all available versions: AMG GT 43 (from $102,100), AMG GT 53 (from $113,000), AMG GT 63 (from $158,350), and AMG GT 63 S E Performance ($200,500).
The central system of the new electric Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe is called AMG Race Engineer and essentially consists of three rotary controls located on the center tunnel, which manage the car’s dynamic behavior:
- Response Control – modifies the response of the electric motors when the accelerator pedal is pressed
- Agility Control – adjusts the car’s agility along the vertical axis and thus its behavior in corners (available only in Sport/Sport+/Race modes with ESP off)
- Traction Control – varies the intervention of the traction control system across nine levels (available only in Sport/Sport+/Race modes with ESP off). This system was also used on the AMG GT R and AMG GT Black Series
The AMG Performance 4MATIC+ all-wheel-drive system is fully variable and uses three Yasa axial-flux electric motors—two on the rear axle and one on the front. This allows torque to be distributed both between the front and rear axles and between the rear wheels (torque vectoring).
The braking system is a mixed setup, with ceramic discs at the front and steel discs at the rear.
The Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe is equipped with AMG Active Ride Control suspension. In this case, the name does not refer to a steel-spring adaptive suspension, but to an adaptive air suspension, necessary due to the car’s significant weight. The “Active” designation indicates a semi-active system similar to that of the AMG SL, featuring interconnected hydraulic elements that replace conventional anti-roll bars. The system hydraulically links the spring struts, making roll stiffness variable. A central pump and valves regulate system pressure to achieve the desired roll support.
The high-voltage battery differs from that used in the MB.EA platform, featuring cylindrical cells instead of prismatic ones, grouped into modules. These cylindrical cells are arranged in laser-welded plastic modules with integrated cooling channels. A high-tech, electrically non-conductive oil flows around each cell to maintain optimal temperature, ensuring consistent thermal management across all cells.
Mercedes has not yet announced the power of the top version but revealed that a single Yasa motor weighs only 24 kg and can deliver up to 348 kW (474 PS). By simply adding the output of the three motors, this would result in over 1000 kW (1,360 PS).
