As exclusive as it is pricey
This year marks the 55th anniversary of the Mercedes-Benz AMG division. It celebrates that with a very special version of the non-street-legal track version of the Mercedes-AMG GT. This is the Mercedes-AMG GT3 Edition 55.
Especially for the car enthusiast who has a warm heart for AMG and who already owns almost everything else in the world, Mercedes-AMG comes with a special and limited to only 5 pieces of the Mercedes-AMG GT3. That track version of the AMG GT has been presented as Edition 55, a special variant to celebrate AMG’s 55th anniversary.
Mercedes-Benz AMG GT3 55 Edition
With the regular GT3 track version of the AMG GT you can participate in various racing series. This AMG GT3 Edition 55 strays outside the FIA ​​regulations and so the track toy is a notch more fierce than the GT3 it is based on. The AMG GT3 already had a 6.3 V8 instead of the biturbo 4.0 V8 that is in the street-legal AMG GTs, but that turbo-less eight-cylinder is even more intense in this 55 Edition. With 650 hp, the 6.3 delivers 100 hp than the V8 in the AMG GT3, which Mercedes-AMG has homologated according to the FIA ​​regulations. In addition, the special exhaust system does not have a muffler. So count on an intense bowl of noise.
Mercedes-Benz AMG GT3 55 Edition
The AMG GT3 Edition 55 is sprayed with a gray unilak and is larded with red accents. The carbon fiber from which they are constructed is visible on various aerodynamic components. Of course, Mercedes-AMG overloads the AMG GT3 Edition 55 with a bunch of 55 badges. In the race cockpit you will of course also find such badges and a placard on which the serial number of the car is printed. Mercedes-AMG supplies the special racing version with a car cover and gives it a special watch. The starting price of the extreme collector’s item costs €625,000. Yes, excluding taxes.
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