spyderman

My dealer just contacted me today requesting my options to spec out the car. Getting one of the first three cars the dealer receives. Anyone have the options list for the GTR handy?

4ramin

send me a pm with your email address and ill be happy to send you the updated DOG

Wassaby

Good choice on Selenite Grey

4ramin

thank you

AMG 17GT

For those who contemplate silver...

Wassaby

Looks very nice in Silver. To bad doesn't have Carbon Fiber Pack.

It seems to be located in Basel, Switzerland.

AMG 17GT

I agree front end needs more on this car

JSwan724

AMG 17GT, TD33, Emericr:

As the date gets closer I am going to need you guys and Vic's council.

Well I am official. I have a serial number and the GTR is in my name.

I may have to lock this one up to keep Vic away from it because it's going to be designo Diamond White with the black RX3 Wheels.

If you're curious as to what it will look like, look at the pictures taken of the silver GTR inside the building earlier tin this thread. I have more carbon fiber though.


NO MSRP, ASSEMBLY, SHIP OR DELIVERY DATES YET THOUGH.


OPTIONS:
621 Black Nappa Dinamica with silver trim/stitching
B07 Carbon Ceramic Brakes
B28 AMG Exterior Carbon Fiber Package II
C52 Indoor Car Cover
H77 AMG Carbon Fiber Trim-Matte
RXC 19"/20" AMG 5 Twin Spoke Forged Wheels Black
U25 AMG Illuminated Door Sill Panel
Y05 Red Seat Belts
239 DISTRONIC PLUS
317 Convenience Package
318 Exclusive Interior Package
5U9 Crossbar--Carbon Fiber--Matte
735 Exclusive Interior Trim
810 Burmiester Sound System

Best Regards

AMG 17GT

Vin! Ha. Going to be spectacular JSWAN. If you squint at the silver car you can see the white and with Carbon fiber great choice.

Only thing is the belts. Not sure I like silver or red, but you have silver stitching so I would go silver or black on belts.

Looking forward to watching the build progress. Congrats

Bolaber

Why does it seems like everyone is getting carbon ceramic brakes on their GTR?

GTR3693

I'm not. Such a waste of money. No real performance advantage even on track. Indeed most track junkies ditch carbon brakes and go with iron brake. And around town, they can even be a disadvantage. The only two benefits are clean wheels (no dust) and less unsprung weight.

Bolaber

Yeah.. and every used car manager I spoke to said it actually hurts resale value.

Td33

It's gonna be super nice. If you haven't had the AMG CCB I think your gonna love them. I had them in two of my cars and they worked flawlessly.

Your wait is coming to an end. Be having fun and waking the neighbors soon!

unconscionable

I don't think that's true and here is my rationale:

With no prior relationship and no hassle, I walked into my local dealer on Monday and placed a deposit for one of their forthcoming allocations (they'll have 6). If there were only 100, I highly doubt I could've done that since the GTR was announced months ago.

This is a corporate dealer, not a franchise, so there are no shenanigans. I'm going to receive an allocation. It's just a question of when.

With only 100, there would almost certainly be a markup. If it was only 100, MB would've announced that in their press release to hype up demand.


I was also told the MSRP is expected to start at $200K which I thought was a bit high but whatever.

Bolaber

I got info today that there will be 350 for the US alone for 2018 MY.

unconscionable

Reliable info? That's cool. I hope that means it will hold value. 350 is a tiny number given the size of the US market.

Bolaber

Absolutely. It was shown to me by a MB USA employee.

AMG 17GT

I'll just say this about the volume of GTR in first year. There is a real shortage of a lot of parts on the GTs, as evidenced by cars brought in for service. The GTR is going to have a lot of engineered carbon fiber on its active aero, etc, that will not be easy to mass produce.

That being said, i remember Musk remarking about his lack of production on his early model S. He said you could have 99.5% of the parts and you still have no car. As such, I see first year GTRs being limited in this respect.

unconscionable

Musk is also known for using a seat-of-the-pants approach, especially with Tesla and SpaceX. He's a do-it-and-then-figure-it-out-later kind of guy. I read his biography. I wouldn't compare Tesla to Daimler which has almost 300K employees.

4ramin

having looked in the Mercedes order site, that's where my dealer had seen the number, in fact all cars had been assigned. Most dealers are marking them up. I heard over 300 GTR's total are being made but right now only 100 GTR's will be in the us .. if you can jump on that deal as I've been offered a nice change for my spot form another waiting customer ...

JSwan724

AMG 17GT, TD33, Emericr;

Many thanks for you guys guidance and insight.

Yea, I'm interested in trying the carbon brakes but I'm usually using the other pedal more.

I still think manufacturing will start mid to late April and the GTR's will start showing up in the Brunswick, GA port in mid May......we'll see.

The latest guesstimates have the US MSRP at $170k plus add on's so you guys may just be right with the "close to $200k" number.

4ramin

in my opinion it would be crazy to order this car without carbon brakes....

Hooks45

I completely agree and ordered mine with CCBs.

Hooks45

My dealer told me three plus weeks ago that my car had already been manufactured. At that time he still did not know when they would ultimately be released.

unconscionable

I must have misread the option list but I thought it comes with CCB standard and there is an optional larger front disc version for $7400.