The Motor Week 2018 Mercedes-Benz AMG GT R Track Test
New AMG GT R is the fastest AMG coupe so far and it’s aimed squarely at track enthusiasts.
Baseball, country music, pick up trucks and apple pie are just a few things as comfortingly American as a Motor Week video. You’re not going to see a grinning presenter drifting around the track in a butt of tire smoke. You’re definitely not going to hear a long list of superlatives from an excitable and shouty presenter. What you will get is old-school automotive journalist John Davis keeping things both enthusiastic and objective. As reliably as ever, he tells us everything we need to know along with some solid on-camera testing. In this case, Motor Week took the 2018 Mercedes-Benz AMG GT R to Roebling Road Raceway in Georgia.
It’s a refreshing change from the bombastic YouTube videos we’ve been seeing lately and Motor Week even have the more subdued Mars Red GT R rather than the startling “AMG Green Hell Mango” color. This video gives us a chance to see what the AMG GT R looks like attacking the track without added hype and hyperbole. Motor Week allows the car speak for itself. Well, apart from a couple of inoffensive cliches we can forgive.
The 2018 Mercedes-Benz AMG GT R doesn’t disappoint. Davis runs us through the list of specifications that, along with the style and real-world performance, lets us know this is a car the AMG engineers want to build. It can be the lunatic hooligan, shredding tires and making the kind of noise that could embarrass an F1 car. But, it can also be a finely-honed track weapon carving its way through the corners and shortening the straights before taking you to a restaurant on the way home.
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