Have you ever wanted an electric car to wake you up with such a brutal noise that the neighbor's dog would turn over in his dog bed again? Mercedes-AMG says: "No problem." With the Mercedes-AMG GT XX Concept - a four-door, orange arrow powered by a trio of axial-flux electric motors and capable of reaching 1,000 kW in ten seconds - the Germans have turned into the future with the full weight of the hammer. This is loud! Although quiet!
The face Mercedes-AMG GT XX Concept it's "surprising" you may like it or not, but when you have a car with the mass of a medium-sized star measured by the drag coefficient Cd 0.198, it's clear that the designers haven't slept too much. They put the finishing touches on active aero wheels: five carbon panels on each rim open and close like frog gills while driving – the electricity for the motors is generated by the wheels themselves.
Macro-dimensions (and why the Taycan looks like a go-kart), but this is the Mercedes-AMG GT XX Concept
GT XX stretches to 5.20 m in length, measures 1.95 m in width (2.13 m with mirrors) and compresses to just 1.31 m in height – a sedan low rider, which will handle small city curbs just like the Klarstein blender does with a banana.
The heart of copper and silicon: the Mercedes-AMG GT XX Concept
- Power: 1,340 hp (≈1,000 kW) from three axial-flux motors – two at the rear, one at the front.
- Torque: AMG is still weighing how much Nm it is appropriate to admit to the public.
- Drive: permanent four-wheel drive, front engine disengages when cruising to save electrons.
- Electronics: 800-volt architecture and inverter magic from Formula 1.
A battery the size of the state budget
It is glued to the bottom 3,000 cylindrical cells with energy density > 300 Wh/kg; in five minutes, under an 850-kW charger, they absorb electrons for ≈400 km WLTP range – not even your nearest gas station can brew that much coffee.
Theater on four exhaust notes
“This is the best V8 we have ever developed.”
That's how, quite seriously, one of AMG's bosses boasted when the external speakers - hidden in headlights, like Bond's machine guns – a roaring digital eight-cylinder celebration. Add in gearshifts that don't actually shift anything, and you have an electric car that sounds like you're racing around Daytona Speedway. Yeah… it's fake to the max, but that's kind of what we want in cars like the Mercedes-AMG GT XX Concept.
Speed math: Mercedes-AMG GT XX Concept
Mercedes claims that GT XX exceeds 360 km/h (223 mph); official acceleration 0–100 km/h not yet, but with more than a thousand horsepower and instant torque, the number will – according to the engineers – start with "1." and end well before your passenger's respiratory arrest.
Toughness for the Nürburgring: Mercedes-AMG GT XX Concept
AMG boasts that the production version will last three full Nordschleife laps without "thermal collapse" - that's how long even the average gasoline-powered supercar can last before the tires and the driver's ego die.
Cabin: GT3 spa with an eco-hipster touch
Carbon shells are covered in textile used GT3 tires, the fabric is orange-backlit, and the steering wheel is more reminiscent of an airplane rudder than something you would use to park in a Mercator garage. The two tablet screens, the yoke, and the aluminum "bridge structure" in the center console scream: this is not a car, this is Netflix special on wheels.
Attack on Lucid and Porsche
Otherwise it is Lucid Air Sapphire faster in the catalog, Porsche Taycan Turbo GT more experienced on the racetrack, but AMG brings show – light bars, the luminous “Fluid Light” paint, and the tasteless confidence that the electric future will still smell like burnt octane (at least in the ears).
Conclusion
If GT XX Concept It's not actually a car, it's a promise, then it's a promise with capital letters - 1,340 hp, 850-kW charging and a noise that will make you happily share your hearing aid with your neighbor. AMG has finally figured out that electrics are not the enemy of emotion; all it needs is a little theater, some computer-generated explosions and a pinch of German arrogance. Price? No one knows yet, but add in the 25 percent US customs duty and you'll soon be in the zone where a bank teller will deliver coffee to your door. Either way, if the production model is half as crazy as the concept, the electric Affalterbach will seriously scare anyone who thinks electric motors are synonymous with silence and boredom.
So for now, let's take a deep breath, turn on launch control imagination and let's wait for 2026 - when the first electric AMG will supposedly roar into showrooms, convincing the world that the future still spews flames, even from a socket.
