The Mercedes-AMG GT R Roadster Comes With High Performance

Fancy an F1 safety car while you're getting a tan? Here is your car!

We have known the Mercedes-AMG GT R for a long time. An AMG GT with more Aero, more power and a little less weight as well as some important Chassismods.

We also saw what happens when Mercedes-AMG lifts the GT off the GT Roadster. It's basically an AC Cobra of the 21st century. A Dodge Viper with German table manners.

So far, AMG has refused to combine the 577 hp engine of the GT R, its OTT wings and splinters and its top-of-the-ranks with the topless body. As you can see, the temptation has proved too great. See a topless GT with a huge wing on the trunk and you'll know you're looking for the ultimate roof without a Mercedes sports car.

Spec is lifted by the Grand GT R Coupe in wholesale. You get an additional 46 mm circumference of carbon fiber bullion boards. The 4.0-liter bi-turbo V8 makes 577 hp. You get a rear-wheel steering and a nine-stage traction control system that basically trains you to drift. Or fall off. Your call.
You get 0-62 mph in 3.6 seconds and a top speed of 197 mph. If you believe it, these are exactly the same numbers as the hard-top posts. AMG assumes that the drop-top is not slower. And after our experience with the GT C Roadster, we would be sure that he also feels no fuzzier. The vehicle weighs 1,710 kg, including a 75 kg driver - 80 kg more than a 1,630 kg GT R hardtop.

Despite the missing roof, which rather ruins the car's airflow, AMG has retained all the enhancements of the GT R coupe. The wings of the front wing, the active underbody spoiler that projects 40 mm closer to the road to produce 40 kg downforce at 155 km / h, a rear wing under which you can sleep in a hurricane and keep bones dry - all is still available and correct.

Only 750 GT R Roadsters will be built, for a fee north of £ 150,000 we expect.

Should this be the new F1 safety car? After all, the racers are all in the open cockpit - why not put the best sounding car on the grid?