No Skill Required: Should Mercedes Consider Building A Self Drifting Mid-Engine Hypercar?

Could Mercedes offer a mid-engined rival for McLaren’s 650S, or even its P1? The suggestion is a ‘credible’ one, according to AMG boss Tobias Moers.

Asked by Top Gear if AMG – the performance division now wholly incorporated into the Mercedes mother ship – was considering a move into the world of mid-engined supercars, Moers admitted there was space above the AMG GT S (pictured) in the Merc line-up for an even more powerful proposition.

“There will be more members of the AMG family in the future. The hypercar is always a credible business case,” he told us. “From a technical perspective, from an engineering perspective, we could make something.”

W208 - 11/10/2015 5:00:06 PM

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Bring back the CLK-GTR!

MDarringer - 11/10/2015 7:15:27 PM

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And the software fails on the 405 in Los Angeles and creates mala figura...likely outcome

JRobUSC - 11/10/2015 7:18:02 PM

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a "self drifting hypercar"? Was that supposed to be "self driving" or did you actually mean "self drifting"?

Yonder7 - 11/11/2015 11:06:17 AM

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MDarringer: I think you were reading too fast and that's why you did not catch the title.

MDarringer - 11/11/2015 1:04:49 PM

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No, Sweetums, I saw the title. And if the software fails and the car goes into drift mode when it should not, it will most certainly create mala figura.

cidflekken - 11/11/2015 11:39:17 AM

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"Self-drifting" seems to be in contradiction to why people buy/drive hypercars to begin with: the joy of driving.

Holydude - 11/12/2015 10:40:31 AM

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Hope it looks better than the GT...