New Mercedes AMG GT Sedan Looks Pricey and Cheap at the Same Time.
The new Mercedes AMG GT sedan is what happens when things go too far. Everything here is overdone and looks like it was designed by a 14-year-old car nerd living in a trailer park.
However, if you can see through all the excess, the basic design is actually not that bad. The overall shape is pretty clean, and the best part is the fastback profile that doubles as a real hatchback. That’s something surprisingly rare these days. From certain angles, you can even tell there is a genuinely elegant grand touring car hiding underneath all the ghastly visual crap. The proportions are long, low, and muscular without looking awkward. Mercedes clearly had the foundations of something attractive before they decided to throw every vulgar styling cue they could think of onto the bodywork.
The worst part has to be all the cheap-looking black plastic trim around the lights. It covers huge sections of the body and looks absolutely ghastly. Which is a shame, because underneath all that visual nightmare, the car could have looked genuinely elegant.
Things aren’t better inside either. The cabin feels like a collection of every vulgar interior trend we’ve seen over the past few years. Quilted leather everywhere. Carbon fiber everywhere. Red ambient lighting everywhere. Gloss-black trim and shiny surfaces covering every inch of the dashboard. It’s all here: a sad display of wannabe luxury from a brand that should know better.
Even the massive screens somehow make the cabin feel smaller and busier than it should. Modern Mercedes interiors used to look futuristic and sophisticated. Now they often feel more like upscale gaming lounges designed to impress social media influencers than actual luxury buyers.
Of course, the specs themselves are anything but subtle. Power starts at over 1,300 horsepower. That’s right. Top speed is claimed to be around 225 mph, complete with an artificial V8 soundtrack pumped through the speakers. And if you somehow resist using all that absurd power, Mercedes says you could see up to 435 miles of range.
Basically, this is a car you can only properly exploit on a racetrack. Yet most of them will probably spend their lives cruising through Beverly Hills or Monte Carlo at 25 mph.
The exterior design of this new billionaire toy stays very close to the concept Mercedes showed last year, which actually looked quite good. The concept had a much cleaner and more restrained appearance, proving AMG didn’t need to go this extreme to make a statement. As I mentioned before, different colors and trim combinations might help calm things down a bit.
It will also be interesting to see how many of these Mercedes expects to sell. The previous AMG GT 4-Door was still closely related to the Mercedes E-Class and CLS underneath. This new model won’t be. It will be a dedicated AMG design from the start. And of course, an SUV version will probably inevitably follow.