Mercedes reveals how future AMG models could look with sleek new concept
– reminiscent of a long-tailed four-door 911 in a good way – the latter concept has some key differences.
Chief among those are, at its longer nose, triple-bar headlamps arranged into twin three-pointed stars to be on-brand, hopefully sufficient to illuminate the road ahead and possibly an indication of a future electric AMG light signature. There are no lower air intakes below, just LED strips – to echo the Pan Americana-style vertical grille on Mercedes and AMG’s current sportier cars – and the Vision AMG’s wheels reference those on the Mercedes F1 car to denote its high-performance connections.
At its exclusive global unveil on the Côte d’Azur in the south of France, chief design officer Gorden Wagener admitted that this covering was partly there to help conceal some design secrets . Still, the shutlines show the Vision AMG to be a four-doorcoupélike the EQXX,and its real importance is to herald a new dedicated electric platform for the performance-oriented Mercedes-AMG brand.It’s called AMG.EA architecture and is dedicated to future fully-electric AMG models.
An axial flux motor has been developed by Mercedes’ wholly-owned subsidiary YASA and Mercedes says its compact and lightweight design will deliver substantially more power than conventional electric motors.AMG CEO Philipp Schiemer says 2025, which seems fair given Mercedes’ already stated decision to be fully electric by 2030 – ‘wherever market conditions allow’. Design chief Wagener also declared at the unveil that the concept ‘stands for the whole brand, not just for one car’.