The old GT was easier to admire from a safe distance. How is the new one up close?
Hands up who liked the old Mercedes-AMG GT? That’s right: some of you. Enough for Mercedes to have sold a few examples of the, but not nearly enough for its replacement to continue in precisely the same format. At its core, the old GT was a curiously Marmite two-seater; what the manufacturer openly admits it needs - and what its customers requested - is a more practical, usable and, yes, comfortable high-end sports car that rivals the all-court ability of a Porsche 911 Turbo.
The interior, already familiar from the SL, is less evocative. It’s as modern and as clean-cut as a Chinese astronaut, of course, and certainly all Mercedes hard work on the MBUX system has paid off in terms of sophistication - but a giant touchscreen and selectable ambient lighting do not a soulful cabin make. The outgoing Bentley Continental GT towers above it in terms of style and finish, and even the 992 seems equipped with a more cohesive sense of what it ought to stand for.
If this makes the coupe somewhat anticlimactic, it is also fit for purpose. Certainly no previous GT rode or roved about the place quite so contentedly. In the default Comfort mode, there is a real sense of Mercedes leaning into grand tourer-style suppleness, even if it can’t deliver a commensurate hush in tyre or road noise.
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