Just a few years ago, at the words Mercedes with a 1.6-liter engine, we would have imagined some modest A-Class hatchback with a boring five-seater interior and trunk for a couple of sports bags. But now, with such an engine, the most advanced car in the world is being produced and, perhaps, one of the last hypercars where gasoline burns roaringly in the cylinders. This is His Majesty Mercedes-AMG ONE, and in its carbon fiber belly is installed a 1.6-liter unit, but from the Formula 1 car of Lewis Hamilton.
Of course, in the spirit of the times, the same Formula 1 could not do without a hybrid system: the Mercedes internal combustion engine is assisted by four more electric motors, and the total power of such a combination is 1063 horsepower. After 1000-horsepower production electric vehicles, all this is no longer so amazing, but the Mercedes-AMG ONE is much lighter, and its aerodynamics are closer to a racing car, rather than the plump silhouette of the Tesla Model S Plaid. It’s not for nothing that the hypercar holds the record for the fastest road car on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. But how does it all work? Watch in the new video!
Do you remember the times of completely different fastest Mercedes? For example, the monstrous Mercedes-Benz SL 65 AMG Black Series. In this selection, we have collected the most powerful cars of the 2000s, which you will hardly see on the road, and their power is also often close to 1000 horsepower. We have selected ten such outstanding cars – mostly exclusive small-scale ones built by masters of tuning for aesthetes and gourmets.
Here you can read about the safest car in the world 50 years ago: Mercedes-Benz ESF 22. This is another forgotten concept – a revolution of its time. Even then, it contained security systems that are familiar to every motorist today. Perhaps with the exception of the owners of “loaves”. In general, read it for yourself and be surprised. /m
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