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Paris Motor Show – Mercedes’ Aston And McLaren Rivaling AMG R50 Set To Dazzle

This alone is justification for a plane ticket to the Paris Motor Show – the Mercedes-AMG R50. Forget ‘Supercar’, the European press is calling the R50 a ‘Hypercar’. At this stage, official word from Mercedes-Benz is of


This alone is justification for a plane ticket to the Paris Motor Show – the Mercedes-AMG R50.

Forget ‘Supercar’, the European press is calling the R50 a ‘Hypercar’.

At this stage, official word from Mercedes-Benz is of course ‘donuts’ but that hasn’t stopped the media rumour mill from hitting maximum volume.

Word is the AMG R50 – the ‘50’ because 2016 is the 50th Anniversary of AMG - is at this stage only a concept car and, if the ‘Benz board does green light production by AMG, we’re talking a total number of cars well under 300 units.

But this is a car which Mercedes-Benz needs – an AMG rival for the likes of Aston Martin’s AM-RB 001 (being jointly developed with the Red Bull F1 team), McLaren P1, La Ferrari and the Porsche 918 Spyder.

Intense work in the Mercedes AMG F1 team’s carbon fibre autoclave is claimed to have the R50 hitting the road weighing no more than 1300kgs which would give it a significant advantage on that front.

And we hear British sports car specialist Lotus has been enlisted to provide expert chassis tuning.

 

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