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Mercedes-AMG Drops Video of the Project ONE

By David Castro

CHICHESTER, UNITED KINDOM - JULY 12: The Mercedes-Benz AMG Project one on display at Goodwood Festival of Speed 2018. It was first unveiled at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor show, and is due to be in full production in 2019. The car uses Formula One technology, and is considered an F1 car for the road. The production of the car is planned to be 275 units at a price of £2 million per unit, all of which have been already sold. (Photo by Martyn Lucy/Getty Images)
CHICHESTER, UNITED KINDOM - JULY 12: The Mercedes-Benz AMG Project one on display at Goodwood Festival of Speed 2018. It was first unveiled at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor show, and is due to be in full production in 2019. The car uses Formula One technology, and is considered an F1 car for the road. The production of the car is planned to be 275 units at a price of £2 million per unit, all of which have been already sold. (Photo by Martyn Lucy/Getty Images) /
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Mercedes-AMG dropped a new video this week of their highly anticipated Project ONE hypercar. We’ve been hearing about their project to get a street legal car powered by a current F1 engine for a few years now but development and production have stalled.

To date, all we have are some vehicle specs, videos and pictures but Mercedes-AMG gave us all a little reminder that the Project-ONE could be epic:

Project ONE will use in-house F1 technology to propel the mid-engine hypercar to upper echelon performance numbers.

Power is provided by an F1-based 1.6-liter V6 turbo hybrid engine with four electric motors, two of the electric motors will power the front wheels. The 1,000hp engine is paired with an 8-speed AMG SPEEDSHIFT automatic transmission. The power hits the pavement via the AMG Performance 4MATIC+ all-wheel drive system with a hybrid-drive rear axle.

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The projected performance is heavy duty:

0-200kmh:   6-seconds (0-124mph)

Top speed: 350kmh  (217.48 mph)

If Mercedes-AMG can pull off the numbers they’re advertising they’re going to have one of the fastest street legal cars around. Mercedes-AMG has not released any projected 0-60 times, but let’s assume that it will be properly quick.

If the video above has heightened your desire to get your own Project ONE, well, all 275 pre-orders have been snatched up at the price of $2.7 million. Conjecture has it being released this year but no absolute confirmation has been issued.

Seven-time F1 world champ Lewis Hamilton, driver of the #44 Mercedes-Benz AMG, helped his employer develop the Project One and is awed by the upcoming hypercar.

“I can still hardly believe that there will soon be a hypercar with a Formula 1 engine,” Hamilton said. “We won the world championship with this engine in 2015, and I was involved in its development for a long time.

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