HERE BE MONSTERS

The company that invented the auto mobile has revealed its fastest super car yet: the “Beast of the Green Hell.”

by NICOLAS STECHER

 ONLY THE SECOND VEHICLE ENGINEERED FROM THE ground up by Mercedes’ high-performance AMG division, the GT supercar was built to do one thing: battle the Porsche 911. Released in 2015, the GT line was imagined as a more focused and refined version of its predecessor, the gull-winged SLS. But to destroy monsters you must first become one, so the mad scientists at AMG further weaponised the sleek coupé to unleash the GT “R”—a.k.a. the “Beast of the Green Hell.” THE MOST REMARKABLE THING ABOUT THE GT R IS NOT ITS 198-MPH TOP SPEED, IT’S THE CAR’S CONTROL AT TOP SPEEDS The moniker was earned after the GT R’s December 2016 record-setting lap of the Nordschleife, the Nürburgring’s North Loop, dubbed “the Green Hell” for its supreme difficulty. There are countless…

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Maxim India (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2017

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