Photo: GTBOARD.com
With the Mercedes-AMG GT S celebrating its first year out on the street, we were expecting a lot more crashes from what is a tail-happy rear-wheel-drive sports car with too much power for its own sake.
It’s not just the characteristics of the car (we’ll get to that in a second) but also its character. The Mercedes-AMG GT S is the kind of car that attracts two kinds of customers: the connoisseurs, and the nouveau riche. Well, it’s the latter we were counting on to provide us with dented metal, but it seems they behaved themselves nicely. Up until now.
If you look at this picture of a crashed AMG GT S in Sweden, on the one hand, and the spy shots we’ve been showing you lately with cars testing in winter conditions in the same country, you’ll notice something is off. This looks like hobbit-land, while the others look like they were taken “over the Wall” (apologies to all of you who don’t watch Game of Thrones).
That’s because the accident itself isn’t exactly fresh - in fact, it’s already half rotten - having taken place all the way back in June. It’s just the pictures that have emerged lately (via GTBoard), showing us what can happen when you hit a pole at an unnatural angle at what we can only assume was a great speed.
The car looks beyond repair, but reports say it’s still hiding in a garage somewhere in Sweden, with its owner probably thinking that should he crash his second car as well, he still stands a chance of making a functional one out of the two.
There is very little information about what exactly went on, but while the asphalt appears to be dry, the road is narrow and possibly twisty, so our guess is the driver got overexcited and pushed one step too far. Or it could have been several steps.
That’s entirely understandable with 510 hp under your right foot and an exhaust note that sounds like it could raise the dead and then scare them back into the graves they crept out of. Anyway, as bad as we feel about the car, it’s fortunate that nobody was seriously injured.
If you look at this picture of a crashed AMG GT S in Sweden, on the one hand, and the spy shots we’ve been showing you lately with cars testing in winter conditions in the same country, you’ll notice something is off. This looks like hobbit-land, while the others look like they were taken “over the Wall” (apologies to all of you who don’t watch Game of Thrones).
That’s because the accident itself isn’t exactly fresh - in fact, it’s already half rotten - having taken place all the way back in June. It’s just the pictures that have emerged lately (via GTBoard), showing us what can happen when you hit a pole at an unnatural angle at what we can only assume was a great speed.
The car looks beyond repair, but reports say it’s still hiding in a garage somewhere in Sweden, with its owner probably thinking that should he crash his second car as well, he still stands a chance of making a functional one out of the two.
There is very little information about what exactly went on, but while the asphalt appears to be dry, the road is narrow and possibly twisty, so our guess is the driver got overexcited and pushed one step too far. Or it could have been several steps.
That’s entirely understandable with 510 hp under your right foot and an exhaust note that sounds like it could raise the dead and then scare them back into the graves they crept out of. Anyway, as bad as we feel about the car, it’s fortunate that nobody was seriously injured.
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