Moving Americans may not be able to run a Mercedes-AMG One on public roads. They may be able to find a loophole in the law, but then they will be limited in the annual raid.
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After years of waiting and delays, we have seen the final version of the Mercedes-AMG One, a 782 kW (1,063 hp) six-cylinder hybrid hypersport with Formula 1-powered propulsion. The car is strictly limited to 275 units, all of which are already booked, namely despite the price tag exceeding 60 million crowns.
Gradually, deliveries to customers can begin. But it has one snag. It will not be easy to register a car in the United States. AMG representatives sent official information to customers: “While the engine has a racing background, its constant development and improvement has faced us with a difficult decision with regard to the American market. We concluded that compliance with US road regulations would jeopardize the performance and overall performance of the F1 power unit, whose unique character we wanted to maintain.“
The Mercedes-AMG One is powered by a hybrid system, which consists of a double-turbocharged V6 with a capacity of 1.6 liters and four electric motors. In Europe, the propulsion system is approved for normal road use mainly due to the extremely complicated system of four catalytic converters, two ceramic catalytic converters and two particulate filters. In their report, AMG representatives do not state what would be needed for approval for American traffic, or how specifically this would affect the car’s performance.
Nevertheless, there is one potential solution to getting the Mercedes-AMG One on American roads. It is the law of 1999, which allows for the purpose of presentation or exhibition to import and register cars that meet the government’s definition of a historically or technically significant car.
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If the Mercedes-AMG One could get to the US in this way, the owners would have limited public road traffic to 2,500 miles a year, which is slightly over 4,000 kilometers. Because similarly expensive cars usually end up in collections anyway and rarely, if ever, look at roads, a 4,000 raid could be more than enough.
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