Looks like Mercedes isn’t holding back on the weird. The front end of the new AMG GT 4-Door looks less like a car and more like something out of a sci-fi comic. Ovoid headlights. A light bar linking them. A grille that looks like it’s baring teeth.
It’s distinctive. Maybe too distinctive?
Smooth lines elsewhere, though. The roof sloping down gives it that coupe silhouette people love, even if there are four doors. At the back, it gets a little retro-futurist. Three circular taillights, each holding a tiny star inside. Sitting under a curved LED bar. On black glass.
Under the skin, though, that’s where it gets absurd.
Horsepower as a Verb
Three motors. All axial-flux. The AMG is the first mass-produced EV to actually use this tech, and the difference shows up in the numbers. 1,153 horsepower for the GT63 version. 1,475 pound-feet of torsional force.
That’s not a typo.
Axial-flux means the magnetic fields run parallel to the shaft rather than perpendicular. It’s cooler, smaller, stronger. It lets the car keep repeating high power without overheating or losing steam. You can pull away repeatedly. Again and again. Without fading.
This isn’t just incremental improvement. It’s a different physics model for electric propulsion.
0 to 60 mph in two seconds flat. 6.4 seconds to get to 124.
That’s scary fast. For a sedan that can probably seat four people in reasonable comfort.
The Range Anxiety Cure?
Charging matters too. And here Mercedes is leaning hard into the infrastructure gap.
This 106 kWh pack chugs electrons at 600 kilowatt maximums. 10 percent to 80 percent charge. Eleven minutes. Just eleven.
If the fast chargers hold up, you’re spending about as much time buying a coffee as you are refilling the car.
Range is solid by today’s standards. Up to 432 miles WLTP. In the U.S., maybe around 367. Real world driving, air conditioning, speeding… probably less. But enough to ignore the tank on road trips for now.
Unless you really love driving 200 mph. Then you’d need more miles. But who does that?
Probably some guy in this GT63 right now.
We’ll see when it arrives. The styling stays weird
