Mercedes-AMG GT R Monster Merc Barges Into India!

A Quick Blast in Mercedes-amg’s Newest Sportscar Pair
 

- Raunak Ajinkya

I’m sat snug. There’s a predom-inantly black theme running all around me. I quickly glance outside through the windscreen to see an unusual amount of panic in everyone. They’re all seemingly waiting for me to get a move on, as though I’m the one causing an immense delay in a hurricane evacuation. My photographer seems especially keen to get going. This is not how I pictured things would go.

It’s funny, really. A week’s worth of a build up to this day on the track and everything seemed to be going exactly how it shouldn’t. I’m in what Mercedes-AMG calls the GT R, a lurid green example of what it deems is the most hardcore of its AMG GT lineup in India, and I agree. It’s Mercedes-AMG’s newest flagship sportscar, and it’s packing a lot of firepower to justify its position at the top. There’s a 4.0-litre V8 for starters, and in the R spec it makes 577 bhp and 71.3 kgm – enough and more to help you through those dull mornings trudging to work, I’d say. What those figures don’t convey, however, or maybe they do, is the fact that there’s a brutality and rawness to it that just numbs your senses the moment you’ve explored anything more than part-throttle acceleration.