Mercedes will use the brand new MSA spaceframe platform underpinning the brand new AMG developed SL within the subsequent Mercedes-AMG GT, which can must be repositioned as a extra hardcore providing, in accordance with AMG high-ups.
Talking to Auto Specific, AMG boss Philip Schiemer and chief know-how officer Jochen Hermann outlined the delicate variations between consumers of the brand new SL, which has been rebooted as a sportier automobile for its seventh era, and people of the AMG GT, plus what this will likely imply for the following model of the model’s efficiency flagship.
“With the GT which is now coming to the top of its lifecycle, now we have some new concepts,” stated Schiemer.
“Our GT drivers are individuals who like to go along with their car on the race monitor. We see this each weekend and we see this after we do our occasions and driving academies. That is the place the place the GT drivers are assembly. The classical SL homeowners are usually not a lot on the racetracks, however extra curious about cruising.”
Schiemer stated that the MSA platform can be utilized by the manufacturers in “some ways” sooner or later, whereas Hermann added: “And naturally, with the MSA structure, there’s room for a successor automobile [for the GT]. However it wouldn’t make sense for instance to have a GT Roadster sooner or later as a result of this can be overlapping.
“In fact, the GT can be a really totally different automobile from the SL as a result of even when we use the identical powertrain structure and the fundamental rules of the physique in white construction for instance, now we have to make the GT a fair sportier automobile.”
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