Daimler have announced that it is working on a new hypercar to be produced in a couple of years’ time, which will have the powertrain of the current Mercedes Formula 1 car with a modified gearbox and it will be made from carbon fibre.
“In the past Formula one cars and road cars were separate. Now these are moving closer together,” Thomas Weber, a Daimler board member responsible for development at Mercedes-Benz told Reuters on the sidelines of a Mercedes-AMG event in Paris.
Daimler did not provide details of the car’s top speed, horsepower, or sticker price, but did say that research teams from the Mercedes Benz AMG division and the company’s Formula 1 engineers were working on the project.
Tobias Moers, Chief Executive of Mercedes-AMG, told Reuters that the car would have in excess of 1,000 horsepower.
AMG is a sub-brand of Mercedes-Benz which already makes tuned-up versions of the S-Class limousine, G-class offroader and also the A-and B-Class compact cars.
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