Behold, The Glorious Guts Of The Mercedes-AMG Project One

Over the weekend, Mercedes-AMG showcased the F1-sourced innards of its Project One hypercar at the Nurburgring N24
Behold, The Glorious Guts Of The Mercedes-AMG Project One

We’ve known for a while about the F1-sourced nature of the Mercedes-AMG Project One’s powertrain, but seeing it all laid out like this does leave us a little dumbstruck.

A handful of cars can claim to have loosely ‘F1-derived’ engines, but there’s no getting away from the fact that what you see here with road car wheels and tyres attached is - for all intents and purposes - a Mercedes-AMG F1 hybrid powertrain.

There are differences, of course. For starters, the 1.6-litre, turbocharged V6 revs to ‘only’ 11,000rpm as opposed to the 15,000rpm ceiling seen in F1 (it also idles at 4000rpm). Also, the unit powers all four wheels as opposed to just the rears, with a pair of electric motors (delivering 106bhp each) powering each of the front boots.

As in F1, a third, 159bhp ‘MGU-K’ motor can be found hooked directly to the crankshaft, and there’s an ‘MGU-H’ electric turbocharger.

All told, there are four times the battery cells of last year’s Mercedes-AMG F1 car, and the front motors can run on their own to give an all electric mode that’ll operate for up to 15 miles. The V6 meanwhile will be good for 31,000 miles between rebuilds.

As revealed recently, the V6 and its associated motors add up to a whopping 1006bhp output. Quite a bit less than something like a Bugatti Chiron, but the Bugatti weighs a fair bit more than the anticipated 1300kg mass of the Project One.

Just 275 will be made, sold at £2.4 million each. On the strength of what we’ve seeing so far, that doesn’t seem like such a bad deal.

Sources: Auto Express, Autoblog

Comments

Anonymous

AMG- AH MY GAWD

05/30/2017 - 09:37 |
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A Toyota Yaris YRS Sedan 1.5L 4 Cylinder VVTi 4spd Automatic

Dis where all the good stuff happens…

05/30/2017 - 09:47 |
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Sorry Mercedes youre late

05/30/2017 - 12:19 |
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Ali Mahfooz

“The V6 meanwhile will be good for 31,000 miles between rebuilds.”… assuming the £2.4 million doesn’t include the cost to rebuild the engine… but then again most of these cars are going to be garage queened out of that fear. :P

05/30/2017 - 09:48 |
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TheMindGarage

Anyone know what’s up with the strange asymmetrical shock absorber arrangements? There must be a reason for this.

05/30/2017 - 09:59 |
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It does look similar to Koenigsegg’s Triplex Suspension.

05/30/2017 - 10:05 |
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Spoiler, It’s going to be a NASCAR ;)

05/30/2017 - 10:54 |
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I think I know why…This looks like pushrod suspension, but unlike traditional pushrod suspension both sides are linked through using the same spring and dampener. The bottom spring and dampener must serve as a sort of sway bar but also additional dampening. So it seems like suspension and swaybars blended into one through triangulation to save weight and space. Pretty ingenious.

05/31/2017 - 13:00 |
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ThatBrownCarGuy

Meanwhile, Salomondrin is fapping to this

05/30/2017 - 10:10 |
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Chewbacca_buddy (McLaren squad)(VW GTI Clubsport)(McLaren 60

In reply to by ThatBrownCarGuy

salomondrin

05/30/2017 - 10:11 |
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JenstheGTIfreak (pizza)

Imagine if honda made one too

05/30/2017 - 10:14 |
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It’ll be slower than the Type-R tho

05/30/2017 - 11:08 |
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Anonymous

my diesel BARELY revs over 4k (at least, with meaningful result of power)

05/30/2017 - 10:36 |
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Anonymous

rebuild every 31.000 miles… Honda F1 Engineers wet dreams :D

05/30/2017 - 10:38 |
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7367Network

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

31,000* not 31.000

06/01/2017 - 12:19 |
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Anonymous

Good GOOOOOOOD, AMG has hit the dark side and bathed in it hard. I hope this will really encourage or MAKE BMW to follow suit.

05/30/2017 - 10:53 |
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lowie t

“Rebuild every 31.000 miles”
Not that any of them will drive that much.

05/30/2017 - 11:25 |
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