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now AMG has never really had a true sports car a small car compact two-seater front mid-engine rear-wheel drive they tend to make hot rods out of other Mercedes here's a real different departures the true sports card they may have seen this AMG GT in photos and it probably looks bigger than it is that's what I thought now that I'm in front of one in person it really is a tidy package that you can credibly see is a 911 fighter what we're looking at here is also a car that has an all-new 4 liter Biturbo engine up front a compact v8 quite a potent mill 503 horsepower going into a 7-speed dual-clutch gearbox that runs the rear wheels only and like out either nestling the turbos on top of the engine inside the V as opposed to down low around the exhaust the reasoning for that is better turbo response and they say better emissions bottom line all you care about is 0 to 60 somewhere in the high 33.7 and of course that handling is front mid-engine rear drive classic sort of dynamics on the road insides the very interesting cabin for Mercedes they've done two major things here the center console is massive and kind of high it's the sort of Porsche style don't tell them I said so really cool-looking ducts up here for the ventilation here are eight controls that are circular they say echo the v8 configuration of the engine okay I'll buy up their latest touch panel controller here for command and then a set of analog gauges with little carbon fiber in sets and beyond that is pretty stock mercedes interface and wheel controls but in a car that could be very claustrophobic they've done a pretty good job of keeping it feeling relatively airing the only odd note is what car makers have to live with these days are kind of flat square or rectangular center screens this doesn't fit the look of anything else in here it gives you an indication of why car makers are intrigued by what they can do in the future with flexible OLED that will map to the organic surfaces until now they're stuck putting sore thumbs in their cabin you