2020 Mercedes-AMG Project One Release Date, Price and Specs – Roadshow

With the Project One, Mercedes-AMG is ushering in a new era of hypercars. It’s been a few years since the world had a proper, new, all-conquering machine on the market. The last trio — the McLaren P1, Ferrari LaFerrari and Porsche 918 — all having ended their production runs. And, while the phenomenal Bugatti Chiron is still just getting up to production speed, that’s a velvet rocket, not so much a trackday dominator, the sort of thing we’ve been missing. Now, we have our first look at the next one.

With over 1,000 horsepower in a low, lightweight package, Mercedes-AMG promises that the Project One will offer performance on par with a Formula One car in a package that is not only road legal, but that anyone can buy. Anyone who is phenomenally wealthy, anyhow.

This is a proper road car, a machine that seats two in relative comfort — relative that is compared to an average hypercar, which is typically stripped bare to offer the best trackday performance. We haven’t seen much of the interior, but it looks far more accommodating than an F1 car, while stealing a few of its tricks. Most notably? A steering wheel that has most of the important stuff right on it. Valuable, this, given the driver will be lying practically prone when driving this car.

Yes, that’s less horsepower than the phenomenal Bugatti Chiron, but in a package that is surely substantially lighter. Mercedes says that this car will accelerate not to 60, but to 125 mph in less than 6 seconds. It will hit a top speed in excess of 217 mph and can do that despite having a V6 engine that’s just 1.6 liters in displacement. That’s smaller than what you’ll find under the hood of a Ford Focus!