Mercedes-AMG GT Four-Door Coupe Final Teaser Image Is Fiery Awesome

This week at Geneva is the big premiere.

Exactly one year ago at Geneva Mercedes-AMG unveiled its stunning four-door GT Concept, and it was pretty darn close to production ready. That was very much on purpose because this week at this year’s Swiss show the real deal will have its debut. Mercedes-AMG has just released a pair of final teaser images of its upcoming Porsche Panamera fighter and, needless to say, we’re stoked. Aside from the previous spy shots we’ve seen, quite a few details about this powerful four-door are already mostly known.

Under its hood will lie the familiar 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 that could develop over 600 hp. However, it’s the hybrid variant, set to compete directly against the 671 hp Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid, that’s particularly exciting. Why? Try an expected 800 hp, or so. However, we still don’t know its official name and we kind of doubt AMG GT Four-Door will be the chosen designation. Then again, we could be wrong. The two-door AMG GT on sale right now is built on its own unique platform, so don't think of this new four-door as simply a stretched version of the coupe. Instead, it's built on a modified version of the platform underpinning the E-Class and new CLS.

In any case, full details, specs and photos are only a couple of days away. Chances are, there were will be a few executives from Porsche making their way over to the Mercedes-AMG stand to check out the new competition for themselves. We’ll also be on hand at Geneva to bring you the fully skinny. Stay tuned.

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Porsche Confirms When All-New 911 Will Debut With Sexy Teaser

Mark your calendars, because we now know exactly when the covers are coming off the all-new Porsche 911.

The wait is nearly over. In less than two weeks, Porsche will lift the wraps off the all-new eighth-generation 911 at the 2018 LA Auto Show. Porsche has now confirmed exactly when the covers will come off: mark your calendars for November 27, 8.00 pm PST.

With its debut imminent, the teaser campaign for the 2020 Porsche 911 is gathering pace as a shadowy teaser video has been posted on Porsche’s Facebook page showing the car’s shapely silhouette. It looks like, well, a 911, as Porsche says the new model retains the sports car’s “timeless design”. In other words, expect the new 911 to have an evolutionary design since Porsche doesn’t want to mess with a winning formula.

We’re most likely looking at the new 385-hp Carrera or a more powerful 450-hp Carrera S since these are the two models that are expected to debut this month. While the teaser does a good job of hiding the details, we’ve already seen the new Porsche 911 naked thanks to leaked spy shots.

To the untrained eye, the new model looks like any other 911 sporting the same familiar shape, but there are some key changes such as a new taillight design and larger proportions. Under the skin is an updated version of the current car’s platform that will eventually incorporate a hybrid powertrain. That won’t happen for a few years yet, so we can expect the first iterations to use updated twin-turbo flat-six engines.

Like the outgoing model, hotter versions of the new 911 will also arrive in the next few years – we’ve already seen the new 911 GT3 being put through its paces. In the meantime, prototypes of the new 911 are being rigorously tested in a variety of hot and cold climates to make sure the “sports car icon continues the tradition of being the best 911 of all time.”

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