What is it?
The Mercedes-AMG GT super-sports car, updated for the latest model year. Clearly anxious to avoid accusations of ‘doorism’, Affalterbach has taken many of the best bits of the new GT63 four-door and lavished them on the two-door GT.
Among the improvements inherited by the latter from the former are fully digital instruments, AMG’s latest-generation infotainment system, its new ‘performance’ steering wheel and its latest ‘AMG Dynamics’ multi-modal traction and stability control software.
The car’s derivative line-up is mostly as it was. It starts with this entry-level, 469bhp GT, and progresses upwards through 515bhp GT S and 550bhp GT C models – all of which come in both roadster and fixed-roof coupé bodystyles.
For those who want to go faster still and spend even more, there’s the 577bhp GT R and the new GT R Pro, the latter of which is offered in coupé bodystyle only, and having only just been added to the range, comes at a price nudging £190,000. Oof.
At the other end of the model spectrum, mind, the GT Roadster tested here is now a £116k buy; so, at list price, it’s 10% pricier than Porsche’s recently introduced ‘992’ Carrera S Cabriolet, but still a healthy £20k cheaper than Audi’s cheapest R8 Spyder. None of which takes any account of the many vagaries of the monthly finance deal, I should add.
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Another unsporting Mercedes sports car
The GT is an another example of Mercedes seemingly being incapable of delivering a sports car that delivers thrills and is, erm, sporty. Every sports car they make feels more like a Grand Tourer and the GT is no example, it's probably why there is almost an overlap between it and the SL. Even the SLK/SLC were all so boring and tedious, feeling little different to the saloon cars they were based on. Mercedes perhaps needs to spend some time at Jaguar, McLaren or Ferrari to understand what a sports car should feel and drive like.
Adaptive dampers are optional
Adaptive dampers are optional, but which I suspect 100% of buyers will adopt, so why did you not test a car with it???
That’s why I can’t really take this review seriously.