Mercedes CEO Joked That Board Must Have Been “Drunk ” To Approve The $2.4m AMG One Hypercar

Mercedes CEO joked that board must have been “drunk ” for approving the AMG One Hypercar for production.

The original plan was to launch the limited-edition Formula 1-engined AMG One hypercar in 2019.

But the complexities of adapting the F1 powertrain for the street has delayed the car’s development.

The German automaker plans to make just 275 examples of the limited-edition Mercedes-AMG One.

Each of the sold-out Hypercar commanding a price tag of approximately €2.27 million ($2.4 million).

Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz will “in a couple of weeks” time reveal the much-awaited limited-edition Mercedes-AMG One. The original plan was to launch the Formula 1-engined hypercar in 2019, but the complexities of adapting the F1 powertrain for the street has delayed the car’s development.

When asked about when the AMG One would appear in production form, Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius joked that car manufacturer’s supervisory board must have been “drunk” for approving the AMG One hypercar for production.

“The team at AMG and the [AMG] High Performance Powertrain Formula 1 arm came to us about four years ago and said ‘we’ve got a great idea, let’s put a Formula 1 engine into a road car’.

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“I will have to go back to check the meeting minutes, but I’m sure we were drunk when we said yes,” Källenius said while speaking with members of the media about the car in Monaco.

The original 1000bhp Project One concept, later renamed Mercedes-AMG One, was revealed in 2017 at the Frankfurt Auto Show in 2017.

Mercedes plans to make just 275 examples of the Mercedes-AMG One, with each of the sold-out Hypercar commanding a price tag of approximately €2.27 million ($2.4 million).

The 1000bhp-plus four-wheel-drive model uses a hybridised 1.6-litre V6 adapted from that of Mercedes-AMG’s championship-winning 2017 F1 car. Mercedes claimed a 218mph top speed and 0-124mph in 6.0 seconds.

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