Please welcome the latest, definitely the greenest and arguably greatest car we have ever run in the TG Garage. For the next six months I'll be running a car most readers will be familiar with in its weekend guise as the F1 pace car. I can't believe my luck. The next few months will be an exercise in seeing how far you can push the track-derived, 'Ring developed (7:10.92 lap time) GT3 racer for the road before it releases its inner Hulk. The AMG GT R is the apex predator of the range, delivering 577bhp (a 121bhp increase from the base GT) from the 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8. This healthy boost in power has been achieved with new turbos (which can spin at up to 186,000rpm), increased boost pressure (from 1.2 to 1.35 bar), increased compression ratio, remapped combustion, modified exhaust ports and Nanoslide cylinder liners (a tech used in Lewis's F1 motor).
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