When the performance boffins at Mercedes-AMG revealed plans of unveiling its first E Performance hybrid car, we were expecting a grand-touring sports car like the next-generation SL, or maybe a supercar like the Mercedes-AMG One. As it turns out, Mercedes-AMG?s first hybrid-performance vehicle is a four-door saloon based on the GT four-door.

The 2023 Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S E Performance is a hybrid grand-touring sports sedan. But unlike standard hybrids, Mercedes is using hybridization to unleash knuckle-wrenching horsepower and F1-levels of roadgoing performance. The result is nothing short of spectacular.

?With the new Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S E Performance, we are transporting our brand DNA into an electrified future,? said Philipp Schiemer, Chairman of the Board of Management of Mercedes-AMG GmbH. ?In doing so, we are following our own technical path, which is what has always made AMG so special and desirable.?
2023 Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S E Performance: Formula 1 Hybrid Technology

We?ll do our best to make it simple since talking about a Mercedes-AMG car is like reading the engineering blueprint for some advanced, futuristic machinery. The newest Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S E Performance utilizes learnings acquired from the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team, the same F1 team headed by seven-time World Driver?s Champion Sir Lewis Hamilton.

It has a 4.0-liter twin-turbocharged V8 gasoline engine in the front and a single electric motor in the back. The gas engine pro...