【AI前沿】Leaving the V8 in the past: The all-electric Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door

warning: may contain V8-like soundsLeaving the V8 in the past: The all-electric Mercedes-AMG GT 4-DoorThe 0–60 time is impressive, the miles/kWh number even more so.Michael Teo Van Runkle–May 20, 2026 3:53 pm|43This is the new Mercedes-AMG GT 63 4-Door Coupé, and this time it’s entirely electric.Credit:

      Mercedes-AMGThis is the new Mercedes-AMG GT 63 4-Door Coupé, and this time it's entirely electric.Credit:

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    settingsStory textSizeSmallStandardLargeWidth*StandardWideLinksStandardOrange* Subscribers onlyLearn moreMinimize to navAt a star-studded event that closed downtown Los Angeles’ Sixth Street Viaduct last night, Mercedes and AMG unveiled the next generation of performance electric vehicles. The new four-door GT Coupe arrives in the midst of a pivotal period, the result of an almost experimental process that seems to take two steps forward and one step back quite regularly. In many ways, the all-electric AMG leaves previous plans in the past by effectively bringing the record-settingConcept AMG GT XXto series production, with many firsts for Mercedes supporting the abandonment of internal combustion power, including new axial motors from YASA and F1-derived battery cells.Fittingly, then, Mercedes brought out its F1 team’s personnel, as George Russell presented the new car while Toto Wolff and Kimi Antonelli watched from the makeshift grandstands. Hollywood celebs ran the gamut, from Brad Pitt—who drove one GT onto the bridge—to Jacob Elordi and Kevin Hart, while Blink 182 played a surprisingly sarcastic mini set. All of the above may mean less to potential GT buyers than performance metrics and pricing when the 2027 model year comes along, but it only serves to prove just how big a deal Mercedes-AMG believes this will be.The new AMG GT 4-Door brings to production a lot of technology we saw in the GT XX concept a few years ago.Mercedes-AMGThe new AMG GT 4-Door brings to production a lot of technology we saw in the GT XX concept a few years ago.Mercedes-AMGPart sports car, part limo, the GT 63 4-Door is ridiculously quick.Mercedes-AMGPart sports car, part limo, the GT 63 4-Door is ridiculously quick.Mercedes-AMGThe new AMG GT 4-Door brings to production a lot of technology we saw in the GT XX concept a few years ago.Mercedes-AMGPart sports car, part limo, the GT 63 4-Door is ridiculously quick.Mercedes-AMGA new lookIn person, the new GT bears almost no resemblance to any of Benz’s prior EVs. No morebulbous, nautical EQS shapesorminorly smoothed over boxy G-Wagen aesthetic. The new design is more aided by digital renderings and iterative algorithms, especially the jutting front grille, reclined headlights, and Kamm-tail rear end—a bit of Aston Martin fore and aft. From the profile view, the proportions fit somewhere between a Porsche Panamera or Taycan, low-slung and slippery for ideal aerodynamic efficiency.Specs on paper support that impression, as the new GT measures 1.7 inches (43 mm) shorter in height and 1.4 inches (35.5 mm) longer overall, with the wheelbase stretched by 3.5 inches (89 mm) versus theoutgoing model. Inside, the increasingly digital cockpit continues to evolve, with a new dash layout and canted touchscreens. The event afforded nobody but the stars a chance to actually sit in the passenger compartment, but diagrams shared with the media in advance revealed a typical EV skateboard chassis, albeit with a center spine similar to a transmission tunnel on an internal-combustion engine car to house critical EV components, as well as “foot garages” dropped in between battery modules that improve ergonomics. The large hatchback trunk behind the second-row seats complements a minuscule 1.4-cubic-foot (40L) frunk.Axial flux motorsThe four-door hatchback will launch in two variants, as usual a 55 and a 63. Both share the same hardware, though the former restricts output to “just” 805 hp (592 kW) and 1,328 lb-ft (1,800 Nm) of torque, while the latter bumps up to 1,153 hp (848 kW) and 1,475 lb-ft (2,000 Nm). All that shove comes courtesy of Mercedes-Benz’s wholly owned subsidiary, YASA, which last year announced a new world record for the most power-dense electric motor ever built. YASA’s axial e-motors can be found inMcLarens,Lamborghinis, andFerrarihybrids and in this application promise a 67 percent reduction in weight and physical length versus a more traditional radial-flux motor—with double the torque density and triple the power density, no less.The GTs house two of the YASA motors at the rear, with dual water-cooled DC/AC converters and a planetary gearset to each side. Up front, a single motor mates to a spur-gear transmission with an integrated disconnect unit to allow for less drag while freewheeling. The motor sizes truly boggle comprehension, at just 3.5 inches (89 mm) wide for the front and 3.2 inches (81 mm) wide for each rear. YASA eventually believes that these units with a custom planetary gearset can effectively re