New £345k Amg Gt3 old 6.2 m159 :0)

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A few v8 Amg
The best Amg engine ever manufactured, no wonder they prefer it in 2019 over any of the newer bland dull sounding powerplants post m156/159

https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-driven/mercedes-amg-gt3---driven/41172

Unlike the GT4, the GT3's engine isn't the 4.0-litre twin turbo of the road car, instead it carries over the 6.2-litre naturally-aspirated V8 from its SLS GT3 predecessor. The thinking behind that makes tremendous sense, as it's an engine the teams running it were familiar with, it's not short on power - its output varying depending on the Balance of Performance formula, but circa 550hp - and it, as Jäger says, is "bombproof". So much so, that AMG's people say it'll run as much as 40,000km between re-builds, which is ridiculous for a race engine, the transmission able to do about half that before it'll need stripping. running costs, which, if you own it, work out at around €9 per km, before tyres and fuel.
 

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