2027 Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe EV First Look: Electric-Powered Techno-Muscle on Steroids

It rumbles! It roars! Slide in behind the wheel of the new Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe, switch it on, twist the knurled knob under the right-hand spoke of the steering wheel until the little screen on it shows S+, and depress the accelerator pedal. Instantly, you’re surrounded by a hard-edged V-8 soundtrack that rises and falls in sync with your right foot as the needle of the big tach at center stage on the digital dash ahead of you effortlessly swings back and forth toward its 7,200-rpm redline. It sounds like you’re warming up a snarling Mercedes-AMG GT3 race car (you can check out the sound at the video below), getting ready to run with Max Verstappen on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Except you’re not. The 2027 Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe is an electric car.

While other automakers prevaricate over what sort of noise their high-performance EVs should make, Mercedes has opted for a soundtrack that takes a core element of AMG’s brand DNA and dials it all the way up to 11. What you hear in the AMG GT 4-Door Coupe is real, a genuine V-8 sound digitized from recordings of actual AMG engines. But the effect is an illusion, generated by an intelligent real-time mixing system that uses more than 1,600 sound files to sonically interpret each driving situation. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, however. Just enjoy the laugh-out-loud theater of it all.

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1,153 HP, Three Motors, Zero Chill

We did the tech deep dive on the GT 4-Door Coupe months ago (back when it was called the GT XX), but here are the headlines: It’s all-wheel drive, powered by three axial-flux motors—one at the front axle and two at the rear—and fed by a liquid-cooled 106-kWh (net) battery through an 800-volt electrical architecture. In the top-of-the-range GT63 model, which arrives in the U.S. in early 2027, that powertrain delivers a total system output of 1,153 hp and a gargantuan 1,475 lb-ft of torque, enough, AMG says, to hurl this 5,450-pound four-door from 0 to 60 mph in about 2.0 seconds and from 0 to 124 mph in 6.4 seconds. Top speed in cars equipped with the optional Driver’s package is 186 mph. And as with the internal combustion engine GT 4-Door, there will be a lower-priced, less powerful model. Dubbed the GT55 and scheduled to go on sale here in late 2026, its powertrain outputs have been dialed back to 805 hp and a mere 1,328 lb-ft of torque. It will take four tenths of a second longer than the GT63 to get to 60 mph and 2.3 seconds more to get to 124 mph. Top speed remains at 186 mph with the optional Driver’s package.

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It’s powerful, and it’s blazingly quick. But AMG engineers dropped this little teaser at the reveal: The GT 4-Door Coupe’s high-performance electrical architecture has been designed to handle outputs of more than 1,350 hp. Yep, there’s more power and more performance to come from the all-new AMG.EA electric vehicle architecture on which this GT 4-Door Coupe is built. Don’t bet against a Black Series version appearing at some point in the future.

The battery’s innovative design and sophisticated cooling system, all developed in-house at AMG, not only enables the GT 4-Door Coupe’s motors to deliver high continuous outputs— 711 hp in the GT63 and 503 hp in the GT55—but also allows it to accept peak charge rates of more than 600 kW on the coming generation of hyperfast chargers. Find one, and it will take the battery from 10 to 80 percent state of charge in just 11 minutes. Mercedes-AMG expects the GT 4-Door Coupe will return a range of 370 to as much as 430 miles, depending on specification, on the European WLTP test cycle, which suggests an EPA-rated range of between 315 and 365 miles.

Chassis Tricks Straight Out of Sci-Fi

AMG’s Active Ride Control multilink suspension, which features triple-adjustable air springs and semi-active roll stabilization that uses interconnected hydraulics in place of physical anti-roll bars, is standard. So is rear-wheel steering, the wheels able to turn through 6 degrees in the opposite direction to the front wheels at speeds up to 50 mph to improve agility, and 1 degree in the same direction as the fronts at higher speeds to bolster stability. The response of the rear steering system varies according to the drive mode selected, and it also supports the optional automatic parking and remote parking features.

As the GT 4-Door Coupe is capable decelerating at up to 0.68 g purely under regenerative braking, sending up to 550 kW back into the battery, AMG engineers opted for a unique brake configuration, with carbon-ceramic rotors on the front axle to reduce weight and steel items at the rear. They say the setup delivers a consistently precise yet adjustable brake pedal feel, regardless of whether braking force is generated through recuperation, the friction brake system, or a combination of both.

In markets other than the U.S., the electric-powered GT 4-Door Coupe replaces the internal combustion engine GT 4-Door Coupe. Here, it will sell alongside its combustion engine cousins. Mercedes says in Europe pricing of the electric-powered GT 4-Door will be “based on comparable predecessor vehicles,” but U.S. pricing has yet to be finalized. For the record, the 577-hp internal combustion GT63 currently stickers for $158,350, while the 831-hp hybrid-powered GT63 S E Performance lists for $200,500. If the U.S. prices of the electric-powered GT 4-Door Coupes come anywhere near those numbers, you’ll be getting impressive bang for your buck. It’s not just that the new GT63 and GT55 will leave their ICE cousins gasping in their slipstream under full acceleration: They also have a more technically advanced chassis wrapped in more aggressively expressive bodywork and a glitterier cyberpunk interior.

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Cyberpunk Looks, Supercar Aero

The new GT 4-Door Coupe is 1.6 inches longer and 0.2 inch wider overall than the ICE model, which was originally designed 10 years ago, and its 119.7-inch wheelbase is 3.5 inches longer. It’s also at least 1.5 inches lower overall, which is mighty impressive given it has a battery pack under the floor. In profile, that sweeping roofline, long wheelbase, and generous dash-to-axle ratio make the GT 4-Door Coupe look nearly as low-slung as the two-door AMG GT Coupe.

It’s an angry-looking thing from the front, the low-mounted AMG “grille” with its illuminated toothy grimace flanked by a pair of scowling headlights with star-motif DRLs. A glass light bar that runs above the grille, connecting the headlights, is available as an option and gives the front end a cleaner look, better disguising the cut lines between the bumper fascia and the hood. The rear end is dominated by a full-width black panel that sits high above a complex diffuser, with six star-motif taillights located under a thin light bar.

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Aero is everything in an EV, and despite muscular bodywork that’s anything but the blobby jellybean style that characterized the first generation of Mercedes electric cars like the EQS, the AMG GT 4-Door Coupe boasts a drag coefficient of just 0.22 in its most aero-efficient configuration. Among the aero tricks on the car are an active rear spoiler, an active diffuser that extends almost 6 inches rearward at speed, and active cooling louvers at the front.

Among the optional wheels is an aerodynamically optimized 21-incher that AMG says increases range by almost 9 miles, and the air suspension will lower the car through two height settings, depending on speed. Two active aerodynamic elements under the floor can be deployed to increase downforce via the same venturi effect seen in race cars. The first element, at the front of the floor, deploys at 75 mph, and the second, at the center of the floor, at 87 mph.

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Inside AMG’s Electric Spaceship

The interior is dominated by a new take on Mercedes-Benz’s pillar-to-pillar Superscreen concept. The 10.2-inch digital instrument panel and 14.0-inch center touchscreen are housed under a single sheet of glass that arcs out from the dash toward the center of the cabin and hangs over the center console. A second glass panel, which contains a 14.0-inch screen for the front passenger, runs across the dash from behind the curved touchscreen structure.

The front seats are a new design, and a panoramic roof with switchable segments to selectively change light or visibility levels is standard. Options include the AMG Performance seats with integrated headrests, and a lighting system that at night displays AMG logos and racing stripes on the panoramic roof and is color-matched to the interior ambient lighting. It might be a four-door, but the rear seat is tight if you’re seated behind tall occupants, though the hollows in the battery pack allow your feet to slide under the front seats and sit comfortably. Lifting the rear hatch reveals a trunk that’s shallow but wide and long. Under the hood is a small but deep frunk.

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Party Mode Has Entered the Chat

The steering wheel with its suspension stiffness and drive mode controllers under the left and right spokes, respectively, is familiar AMG fare. Compared with other AMG cars, the drive mode menu has been expanded to seven settings: Comfort, Sport, AMGFORCE Sport+, Race, Slippery, Individual, and Eco, the latter being a first for an AMG car.

Most of the modes do exactly what you expect, automatically adjusting the powertrain, suspension, and traction control to deliver your choice of maximum comfort or maximum performance, maximum traction or maximum range, or a combination of attributes. However, the new AMGFORCE Sport+ mode could perhaps be better described as Party mode: It unlocks the V-8 engine soundtrack, as well as fake gearshifts—actuated automatically or manually via the steering wheel paddles—that replicate the feel and duration of those of the AMG Speedshift nine-speed wet-clutch automated manual as you watch the needle on the digital tach swing back and forth, its action perfectly synced to what you’re hearing.

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AMG Gives the Driver More Knobs to Turn

A single pull on both steering wheel paddles unlocks an additional boost of power in the Comfort, Sport, and Sport+ modes—up to 147 hp in the GT63 and up to 67 hp in the GT55. Beyond that, three rotary switches on the center console, the interface for what Mercedes calls the AMG Race Engineer Control Unit, reveal a car with the highest level of driver adjustability yet from Mercedes-Benz’s performance division.

The Response Control switch adjusts the sharpness of the response of the electric motors to commands from your right foot. The Agility Control knob, which is only active in Sport, AMGFORCE Sport+, and Race modes with the ESP switched off, adjusts the torque distribution to change the chassis balance from slight understeer through neutral handling to controlled oversteer. The Traction Control selector, which can only be operated under the same conditions as Agility Control, adjusts the level of traction control intervention through nine stages, just as on the AMG GT63 Pro and on the AMG race cars.

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On top of all that, the GT 4-Door Coupe’s MBUX interface includes three driver-oriented AMG apps. The AMG Performance Menu app shows all key driving and motor data live and in real time. Energy Flow shows how much power the axial-flux motors are delivering to the front and rear axles and how the power is flowing through the system. Aero Flow shows the status of the car’s active aerodynamic elements—the underbody venturis, the rear diffuser, the rear spoiler, and the cooling shutters up front. Warm Up notes when the powertrain and tires reach their optimal operating temperatures, Dynamic visualizes the physical forces acting on the car during driving, and Power shows the status of the battery. Those who want to monitor lap times on the track will find a stopwatch in the IWC Watch menu.

The AMG Set Up app lets drivers customize the order of the drive functions and driving programs on the steering-wheel buttons. The Aero Setup menu enables the driver to manually extend the active rear spoiler at low speeds, while the Pre-Check submenu allows all active aerodynamic elements, including the diffuser, to be activated if you want to show off while parked.

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Track Nerds, AMG Has You Covered

The AMG Track Pace app records more than 80 vehicle-specific data points 10 times per second and can show real-time telemetry data, acceleration data, or lap data on the driver’s display. Lap and sector times can be shown on the multimedia display, the head-up display, and the instrument cluster. Data from legendary racetracks such as the Nürburgring or Spa-Francorchamps are preinstalled from the factory, and the intelligent racing navigation in the head-up display shows cornering angles and optimal braking points, helping drivers find the perfect racing line. Track Pace also includes a digital tool called Predictive Performance Manager that optimizes the powertrain’s energy flow, depending on whether it’s set to Endurance or Hotlap.

We have yet to drive the new AMG GT 4-Door Coupe, but after hearing that V-8 rumble, we can’t wait to play with it. Most fast and powerful EVs are boringly one-dimensional, cars whose party trick is light-switch-quick acceleration and little else. The electric-powered GT 4-Door Coupe promises more driver engagement, more driver involvement in the art and science of going fast and having fun than any EV we’ve seen so far, apart from, perhaps, Hyundai’s Ioniq N models. This new GT 4-Door Coupe is 21st century techno-muscle on steroids. Which is exactly what an AMG electric car should be.

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