Mercedes-Benz Facebook page recently passed the remarkable milestone of 17,000,000 likes. To mark the event, and as a sort of ‘thank you’ to the fans, a team of Mercedes designers were employed to draw an AMG GT on a wall… with tape!
Now, this wasn’t just a pointless waste of the designers’ time. It was, in fact, a good exercise, since tape drawing is actually a formal stage of car design. They implement the initial design in full scale in tape to get a rough idea of what it is going to look like, before making a full-size clay model.
This AMG GT was, of course, was just for show, so they added a little bit of extra flair. It looks pretty amazing:
Mercedes AMG GT Specs:
| Displacement | 3982 cc | 3982 cc |
| Output | 375 kW (510 hp) at 6250 rpm (6000-6500 rpm) |
340 kW (462 hp) at 6000 rpm |
| Max. torque | 650 Nm at 1750-4750 rpm (1750-5000 rpm) |
600 Nm at 1600-5000 rpm |
| Fuel consumption NEDC combined | 9.4 l/100 km | 9.3 l/100 km |
| CO2 emissions | 219 g/km | 216 g/km |
| Kerb weight (according to EC) | 1570 kg / 1645 kg | 1540 kg / 1615 kg |
| Power-to-weight ratio | 3.08 / 3.22kg/hp | 3.33 / 3.49kg/hp |
| Acceleration 0-100 km/h | 3.8 s | 4.0 s |
| Top speed | 310 km/h | 304 km/h |
