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Could you imagine dropping a half-million dollar deposit on a car you’ve never seen?
Last year, eight Aussies did exactly that and they weren’t even shown a photo. All they were promised was their own slice of automotive history with first-dibs on Mercedes’ new AMG hypercar.
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Finally revealed overnight on the eve of the Frankfurt Motor Show, the prototype vehicle known only as “Project ONE” was driven out on stage by none other than Mercedes Formula 1 Champion Lewis Hamilton.
Few details have been released, but AMG engineers promise a machine akin to its race track brother, including a matching 1.6-litre V6 turbocharged engine that can hit a ludicrous 11,000 revolutions per minute. This, combined with the four electric motors, will produce figures well over 1000 horsepower and a 0-200 km/h time of under 6 seconds.
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When rolling off the production line, the vehicle will price around $3.4 million, and that’s before the 5% import tax and GST. Assuming the left-hand drive restrictions are amended by the time it makes it to your local roads, the 33 percent luxury car tax incursion will still bump it an additional $1.3 million.
The final figure will therefore hover around $5.2 million, before state-specific registration and stamp duty are applied.
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Horst von Sanden, CEO of Mercedes-Benz Australia says that they “could have sold more” in the Australian market, but the country was only allocated the eight units.
Customers are expected to receive their road-legal hypercars in late 2019.