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Written by Ollie Kew
We were greeted with the not inconsiderable news this week that Mercedes-AMG will celebrate its 50th birthday and recent F1 dominance by slotting the championship-winning hybrid V6, albeit in road-legal modified form, into the back of a gullwing hypercar. News that no doubt flickered the eyebrows of Adrian Newey, hard at work with the Aston Martin-Red Bull dream-team creating their own road-going F1 car.The AM-RB 001 is set to run a bespoke V12. That leaves the mystery Mercedes-AMG as the only car for years that uses an engine directly derived from motorsport in a machine you can pop for a cat food top-up in. They"re such rare beasts, in fact, that we"ve delved into the archives to explore the murky world of cars that were never built for racing, but ran powerplants from motorsport"s grandest series.
Date written: 31 Aug 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 4846
We were greeted with the not inconsiderable news this week that Mercedes-AMG will celebrate its 50th birthday and recent F1 dominance by slotting the championship-winning hybrid V6, albeit in road-legal modified form, into the back of a gullwing hypercar. News that no doubt flickered the eyebrows of Adrian Newey, hard at work with the Aston Martin-Red Bull dream-team creating their own road-going F1 car.The AM-RB 001 is set to run a bespoke V12. That leaves the mystery Mercedes-AMG as the only car for years that uses an engine directly derived from motorsport in a machine you can pop for a cat food top-up in. They"re such rare beasts, in fact, that we"ve delved into the archives to explore the murky world of cars that were never built for racing, but ran powerplants from motorsport"s grandest series.
Date written: 31 Aug 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 4846
