Mercedes-AMG is considering a two-door electric GT but is still working on making the numbers stack up, report says
by Chris Chilton
2 hours ago
- Mercedes-AMG is considering building an electric two-door coupe.
- The high-performance EV would target Porsche’s strong-selling 911.
- AMG says it’s still unsure if there’s a big enough market to press go.
Mercedes-AMG has made no secret of the fact that it’s getting ready to unleash some extremely powerful electric vehicles. It’s already shown us the upcoming four-door electric GT and teased the super-SUV that will share its platform and electrical hardware. But now we hear AMG could put that same know-how into a real sports car, one with the Porsche 911 in its crosshairs.
AMG is confident that it has the technical ability to pull off the project, but has hesitated over giving it the green light. The sticking point isn’t any kind of doubt over whether it could make a great electric sports coupe, but whether there are enough customers around who would want to buy it.
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“There is an emotional discussion and a rational discussion,” AMG boss Michael Schiebe told Autocar during the Munich motor show. “Emotionally, yes, we should do that. The question is whether there is a market that is big enough to justify the investment that is necessary. At least from a technology point of view, we know how to do that.”
If AMG did press the go button, the EV wouldn’t replace the current two-door combustion GT, which was only launched in 2023. Instead it would be sold alongside it, though the EV would be built around an entirely different platform, presumably with parts borrowed from the SUV and sedan halo cars. The Porsche Taycan rival – a production version of the AMG GTXX concept – has a tri-motor setup that uses compact, lightweight axial flux motors from Yas that will give the top-spec version up to 1,341 hp (1,360 PS / 1,000 kW).
As to when we could see a two-door EV, Schiebe wouldn’t say, but given the current slowdown in the electric market in some countries and luxury buyers’ general disinterest in pricey EVs, it won’t be any time soon. Porsche now sells two hybrid versions of the 911 (the GTS and new Turbo), but won’t deliver a fully electric version until well into the 2030s.
“I would say we are very successful with our combustion-engined GT two-door,” Schiebe said. “So we will focus on that first, and then let’s see when the right point and time is there to launch a two-door EV.”
But he did also suggest that AMG might still launch an EV even if it wasn’t projected to be a major cash cow.
“Sometimes you make a car which is not the most profitable one, but you do it because it’s so important for the brand, and you need to do it because it’s a brand-shaper.”
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