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AMG One with 1000cv is still little to Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton is one of the best F1 drivers today, if not the best. He has won the last four World Championship titles with Mercedes and is now king and master within the team, even after a phase in which the German team seemed to favor Nico Rosberg, who left the competition. So when Hamilton wants something, it's complicated for Mercedes to tell him no.
Hamilton, who was used to promote the AMG One from the first hour, looked at the German sports car and if he was satisfied, on the other hand, he could not resist asking them to do a special series with a little more "claw." A complex request that certainly surprised the engineers, who have endowed the model with a supercharged 1.6 V6 engine, derived from those who use in F1, which should provide about 700 hp, power which is then supplemented by three electric motors of 160 hp each , being coupled to the gasoline combustion engine, to raise the power, with the remaining two mounted at the front, one per wheel, to improve the behavior, by vectoring the torque and moving the car in electric mode. What with a battery of only 6 kWh also should not go far.
Although he appreciates the ability of the AMG One, the F1 driver wants to go a little further, so he said he asked Mercedes to develop a limited edition, which will give up its name, which can be sold to other customers. What would be a good deal for the German brand, since the 275 copies of the AMG One were all sold and for 2.2 million euros, before taxes, one of them for Portugal.