If it’s thrills you want, the Mercedes-AMG GT S will command your attention
The first of LUX’s car reviews tests the Mercedes-AMG GT S for speed and thrills
The view of many owners we speak to express the view that sports cars are becoming boring. Faster, better, more comfortable and more eco than ever maybe, but they are also too competent, making driving like playing a computer game.
This meme must have been in the minds of the engineers at AMG, the former race tuning company that has turned into the high-performance division of Mercedes-Benz, when they designed the AMG GT S. While most Mercs wearing the AMG badge are normal models that have been taken and hot rodded (in the most high-tech, German engineering kind of way) by the division, this car was designed and built by AMG and is only available in high-speed GT or even higher speed GT S form. We took the GT S into the rural idyll of Devon, in southwest England, for a few days to find out whether speed equals fun.
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The car sounds fast ? people turn around and stare as you drive down urban streets, and cows look mildly surprised as you roar down country lanes. It looks fast, like an elongated Porsche 911, with a long, muscular bonnet. Like all sports cars these days, it?s easy to go very fast without much effort or skill, but the interesting part came on the manifold sharp bends of Devon?s roads. On a slightly damp, bumpy surface, you guide the front wheels (which seem a lo...