Mercedes-AMG Is Officially Making A Hypercar Powered By An F1 Engine

Following a whole bunch of rumours, Mercedes has now confirmed that it is indeed going to build a hypercar laden with F1 tech.

The car is being worked on by its Mercedes-AMG performance brand and looks set to hit the roads in 2018. And we’re not talking about a watered-down, F1-inspired hypercar. It’ll use the full F1 V6 Turbo hybrid power unit and have around 1000bhp.

Mercedes used the AMG GT C Roadster reveal at the Paris Motor Show to officially confirm that a new hypercar will take on the McLaren P1 and Ferrari LaFerrari.

Moving up to the next level, the German manufacturer will probably be looking to battle the AM-RB-001 too. 99 to 150 Astons will be made, costing around £2-3 million.

But there have been very little other details released so far about the hypercar, other than a teaser sketch, that it’s in development and will use the F1 powertrain. Still pretty exciting.

Announcement video from the AMG GT C Roadster reveal:

According to head of research and development at Mercedes, Thomas Weber, the two-seat, mid-engined hypercar be the “most efficient and best-performing” AMG car of all time.

The entire F1 power unit will be used, featuring the 1.6-litre V6 Turbo engine, energy recovery systems and hybrid tech.

Apparently it’ll need to be slightly detuned for the roads, but the all-carbonfibre hypercar will be one of the first cars to take F1 tech and directly transfer it to the roads.

According to AMG boss Tobias Moers, deliveries will begin in “two years, two and a half at the most”. So a full-scale prototype will probably be revealed next year. And we can’t wait.