The Mercedes-AMG One is a stunning hypercar that's set to bring F1 technology to the road. With a 1.6-liter V6 and three electric motors powering up the car, its owners are assured of a momentous driving experience every time they spend time behind the steering wheel. And of course, what accessory is best suited to enhance that driving experience than a pair of driving gloves – and Mercedes-AMG sure knows how to make it the most exclusive for the AMG One's future owners.

In the video above, you could see that one of the future AMG One owners was sent with a box with a template for hand imprint. The instruction is to imprint the owner's hand onto it so AMG could make the perfect pair of gloves. Now that's exclusivity to the $2.7-million hypercar.

And oh, it was also mentioned in the video that the AMG One's reservation is 500,000 euros or roughly $565,000 at the current exchange rates. That's just the deposit, mind you.

As detailed in a past video, the AMG One is set to rule the road with its F1-derived hybrid powertrain setup, along with its aerodynamic-obsessed and weight-obsessed bodywork. Even the three-pointed star emblem up front will be air-brushed onto the car to lessen wind resistance. While that sounds bonkers, the center spine of the 1,000+ horsepower hypercar optimizes the airflow before it even hits the rear wing, increasing the efficiency.

While the world is waiting, and the 275 people who have paid for their build slots, the AMG One production car isn't set to roll off the assembly line until mid-2020. This is because Mercedes-AMG is facing a roadblock in taming the F1-derived engine. That can be a bummer for everyone, but the world could really wait for this amazing hypercar to hit the road.

Louder. More power. Different body. Lewis talks TG through his ultimate One

Lewis Hamilton wants to create a very special edition of Mercedes-AMG’s incoming hypercar – the car formerly known as Project One. Get ready then, for a potential One ‘LH Edition’.

Speaking to TopGear.com, the five-time world champion confirmed that he’d expressed his desire to build a custom One to AMG. That car of course, carries Hamilton’s F1 engine in the back.

“I’ve not driven it yet, but I’ve developed the engine. I’m pretty proud of that,” he told us. “I’ve won the championship in that engine. The driveability, the power output and where the power comes in… all those kinds of things are what I helped steer. Getting that car is going to be awesome.”

So, the LH Edition. “I want to do a special LH Edition. I’ve already spoken to them about it, and they’re considering it. It doesn’t make sense not to do it, considering we’ve won the world championship,” he said.

“Ferrari always have a ‘world championship’ sticker on their cars, and we should be proud of our heritage and it should be a part of that car.”

What would a LH Edition One look like? “I’d probably change the exhaust system, make it a bit louder. I’d naturally want to push Andy Cowell (head of Merc-AMG’s F1 powertrains) to give it a little bit more power.” Consider that the One is already pushing out in excess of 1,000bhp from its 1.6-litre turbo hybrid V6, and you get some idea why Hamilton is a five-time champion.

“I’d probably change a few of the surfaces,” Hamilton said, “add a little bit to the bodykit. I don’t know how much room they’d give me to do all of this, but I’d definitely do it.

“I could custom design each one, with whoever ends up buying the car. That’d be a cool job,” he smiles.

A louder, more powerful and custom bodykitted Mercedes-AMG One designed by Hamilton? Colour us interested.

Every half-decade or so, an automaker with a background in motorsport touts a new high-performance, hyper-exclusive vehicle imbued with “Formula 1 technology.” To be honest, my brain’s been kind of trained to ignore that statement when it appears in press releases. It doesn’t really mean anything anymore, now that every modern hypercar incorporates electrification in some manner. However, I’ll let Mercedes-AMG have it this time, because the production version of its Project One revealed Tuesday genuinely seems like the closest anyone has gotten, or will get, to translating modern F1 tech to the road.

I know this because I can barely understand it. At the heart of the AMG One, as it’s now called (they’ve dropped the “Project” part), is “a highly integrated and intelligently networked unit comprising one hybrid, turbocharged combustion engine with a total of four electric motors,” per Mercedes’ release. Just like in F1, the internal-combustion unit is a turbocharged 1.6-liter V6. In the AMG One, it alone is responsible for 574 horsepower. That’s a smidge over half of the car’s overall output.

And then there are the four electric motors. “One has been integrated into the turbocharger, another has been installed directly on the combustion engine with a link to the crankcase and the two remaining motors drive the front wheels.” The one connected to the turbo is what’s called an MGU-H in F1 speak, and while it’s a part of existing F1 power units, it will actually be dropped from the rulebook for 2026 onward in the interest of mitigating development costs. From Mercedes’ release

What’s more, the surplus energy generated from the MGU-H can be routed to “the high-voltage lithium-ion battery or fed to the electric front axle or the electric motor (MGU-K = Motor Generator Unit Kinetic) on the combustion engine.”

The MGU-K is, of course, the other electrical element of the power unit you tend to hear about in F1, connected to the crankshaft. In the AMG One, it contributes another 163 HP, with the capability to harvest waste energy. Coupled with the 122 HP of the MGU-H and the combined 326 HP of the two electric motors on the front axle — appropriately named the MGU-FL and -FR — the AMG One achieves its total output: 1,063 HP. (When you add those numbers up you actually get 1,185 HP, but the official value is a little more conservative than summing the max output of each component individually.)

One of the reasons it took AMG five years to drop the “Project” portion of the Project One was the European Union’s ever-tightening emissions regulations. There are those dreaded gas particulate filters enthusiasts hate so much, in addition to other hardware that cleans exhaust while ensuring Mercedes’ power targets are met:

In some aspects AMG One of course goes beyond what F1 allows, as with those front axle-mounted electric motors delivering all-wheel drive. The car can also be driven on electric power alone for a distance of 11 miles

Firing it up is a whole process too: the front axle motors start first alongside the catalytic converters, which need to be preheated before the combustion engine can join the party.

Once that’s all done, there are no less than six modes for the driver to choose from that markedly transform the driving experience. In “Race Safe,” for example, the engine is only tapped when required. Two modes intended for the circuit only firm up the suspension and incorporate active aero, while the optimal one — Strat 2— sounds an awful lot like the “party mode” teams opt for in qualifying:

The interior reminds you of that association with F1 engineering, chiefly through that formula-style wheel and its many inputs. There’s something awfully weird about seeing machined buttons marked “DRS” and “PASS” shoulder-to-shoulder with switches for media volume and a key to summon a voice assistant

I will never fully understand the AMG One, and that’s OK. Mercedes even refuses to provide an overall torque figure, marking “specification not possible due to complex drivetrain” in its specs chart. That’s fair enough; with electrification, we’re approaching a point where numbers are a game of diminishing returns anyway. You’ll get to see the AMG One in motion for the first time at the Goodwood Festival of Speed later this month
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Mercedes-AMG finally unveiled the One, a 1,049-horsepower hypercar powered by a Formula One-derived V6, after several delays. That means customer deliveries are around the corner, but the German firm clarified that getting the model registered in America will be hard.

"While its engine has its origins in competition, constant development and refinement have left us with a difficult decision for the U.S. market. In order to preserve the unique character of its F1 powertrain, we have concluded that meeting U.S. road standards would significantly compromise its performance and its overall driving character," AMG wrote in a letter addressed to customers and published by CarScoops.

Power for the One (pictured) comes from a gasoline-electric hybrid powertrain that consists of a twin-turbocharged, 1.6-liter V6 and four electric motors. This setup is somewhat surprisingly street-legal in Europe due in part to a stunningly complicated exhaust after-treatment sub-system made up of four metal catalytic converters, two ceramic catalytic converters, and two gasoline particulate filters. There's no word yet on what it would take to make the hypercar comply with American regulations, or what effect federalizing it would have on performance.

Although the news will likely disappoint fans, it doesn't mean that the One will never turn a wheel on American pavement. Remember: the Bentley Bacalar and the McLaren Speedtail aren't street-legal in the United States, either, yet if you're (really) lucky you may see one at a cars and coffee event. That's because they can be imported and registered here through a loophole called Show or Display, a law passed in 1999 that applies to cars that meet the federal government's definition of "historical or technological significance." If the One falls under this umbrella, and it's too early to tell whether it will, owners in the United States will be limited to 2,500 miles annually on public roads.

Even if slashing your way through a jungle of red tape to register a car doesn't bother you, it's too late to buy a One. Production is strictly limited to 275 units, and the entire run was spoken for in record time in spite of a base price pegged in the vicinity of $2.75 million.

Mercedes-AMG’s One hypercar hasn’t had the easiest gestation period. It was announced approximately 10,000 years ago and has faced numerous delays, most notably because it turns out that it’s hard to get a 1.6-liter F1-derived V6 that revs to the moon to meet emissions targets.

Thankfully, according to an announcement made this week by Mercedes-AMG, the delays are (probably) over, and the AMG One is entering production with the first customer deliveries set to take place sometime before the end of the year.

In case you need a little refresher on the AMG One, it’s a no-holds-barred hypercar that leverages Mercedes-AMG’s considerable engineering expertise and success in Formula 1 to create what is possibly the ultimate hybrid with a price tag to match. All 275 AMG One buyers shelled out a whopping $3 million for the privilege of owning one, and that’s not exactly chump change.

Each AMG One will be hand-assembled in a small factory in the UK by Mercedes’ partner Multimatic (a name you might recognize from a bunch of places, but definitely from its role in building the current Ford GT). The finished cars will be shipped to AMG’s headquarters in Affalterbach, Germany, for customer delivery.

With 1,049 horsepower on tap from its electric motors and internal combustion engine, paired with a super lightweight composite chassis, the AMG one promises to be one of the most extreme cars on the planet and a hell of a send-off to the internal combustion hypercar in general.

​​​​​​​Mercedes-AMG took five years to reveal the production version of the AMG One, otherwise known as the Project One when it was introduced as a concept in 2017 – and rightfully so. Bringing Formula One technology into a road car was no easy feat; one that was riddled with so many engineering complications.

Was it worth all the trouble? To showcase that, Mercedes-AMG has pitted the AMG One production vehicle versus the AMG GT Black Series in a drag race. If you're one who follows what Affalterbach has been up to all these years, you know that the latter is nothing to scoff at.

That's because the AMG GT Black Series is a record-breaking performance vehicle. Specifically, it once held the fastest lap time ever recorded for a road-legal production vehicle around the Nürburgring Nordschleife.

Powered by an M178 engine tuned to make 720 horsepower (537 kilowatts) and 590 pound-feet (800 Newton-meters) of torque, it can sprint to 62 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour) in 3.2 seconds and has a claimed top speed of 202 mph (325 km/h). So yes, the AMG GT Black Series is no slacker and it existed for a few years as the ultimate AMG car your money can buy.

The AMG One, of course, is much more powerful. Beyond the complicated engineering that AMG had to go through, the hypercar can officially reach the same centenary in just 2.9 seconds and taps out at 219 mph (352 km/h) – all thanks to an ensemble of ICE and electric motors that produces a total of 1,049 hp (782 kW).

That said, the AMG-produced drag race above showcased the difference between the two in a straight-line contest. It's a 1,000-meter (0.62-mile) sprint and as you might have concluded from the headline, the AMG One absolutely destroyed the AMG GT Black Series. But by how much? The short video should give you an idea.

Mercedes-AMG has released a trio of images showing the specification of the first AMG ONE hypercar to be delivered, and it looks like an otherworldly spacecraft. We don't know exactly when this car was delivered, but the social media posts of the specimen suggest that the customer took delivery late last year, while the German plates indicate it was delivered in Mercedes home country.

While most press photos to date have shown the car in silver or red, this particular example is dressed in a very dark grey or black, with a couple of Petronas green accents balanced by some red touches. Some development cars have been spied in more vibrant hues like yellow, but the finish we see here complements the sleek lines of the car remarkably well. That personalized plate is pretty cool too.

Shortly before the AMG ONE was revealed in June last year, Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Kallenius joked that the board must have been drunk when approving the production of the hypercar. With its F1-derived engine, active aerodynamics, and hybrid components, the hypercar was immensely challenging to bring to the road. The fact that production began in August and AMG is only now revealing its first customer car illustrates just how complex the production of such a machine is.

Some customers complained about the delays, while others are just excited to finally have the opportunity to experience the closest thing to an F1 car for the road. Considering how comprehensively the ONE outperforms other AMG products, we'd argue the wait was worth it.

In addition to the ethos behind the creation of this F1-inspired beast, the ONE claimed bragging rights as the quickest car to ever lap the Nurburgring in November last year, beating the previous record holder by some eight seconds. Astonishingly, it appears that the ONE could have gone even quicker had it not been for "less than ideal" conditions throughout the day that AMG was attempting its runs.

Sadly, it's highly unlikely that the owner of this example will ever take it to the track. After a five-year wait and an asking price well north of $2.5 million, most owners will probably consign their ONE to a garage for life.

The all-conquering AMG One has done it again, smashing yet another lap record. After being crowned the fastest production car at the Nürburgring, Red Bull Ring, and Hockenheim last year, the F1-engined hypercar has added the Monza track to its trophy case. Mercedes-AMG factory driver Maro René Engel needed only 1 minute and 43.902 seconds to complete a lap of the famous Italian circuit.

AMG says it has improved the previous record by a whopping 12 seconds, therefore dethroning the 991.2-generation Porsche 911 GT3 RS and its lap time of 1 minute and 55.30 seconds. The One performed the lap in road-legal specification, equipped with Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 R MO tires specifically engineered for the electrified beast. Unfortunately, Mercedes' performance arm has yet to release footage of the record-breaking run.

​​​​​​​The Valkyrie is the only car we can think of that has a real shot at dethroning the AMG One but Aston Martin hasn't tried to set new track records. In the meantime, Mercedes' flagship performance machine reigns supreme, courtesy of its intricate 1.6-liter turbocharged V6 engine and four electric motors producing a combined 1,048 horsepower.

We'll remind you the AMG One delivers neck-twisting acceleration by hitting 62 mph (100 km/h) in 2.9 seconds and doing 0 to 124 mph (200 km/h) in 7 seconds, en route to a top speed of 219 mph (352 km/h). Its six-cylinder engine revs to 11,000 rpm and must be rebuilt once every 31,000 miles (50,000 kilometers), although we're fairly certain few will ever be driven that much.

Assembled by hand, the One is capped at just 275 cars and is being put together at AMG's facility in Coventry, UK but the hybrid powertrain comes from the Mercedes‑AMG High Performance Powertrains division in Brixworth. A dedicated production facility had to be created in collaboration with Multimatic, and each car goes through no fewer than 16 assembly and testing stations.

must be rebuilt once every 31,000 miles