Another Mercedes-AMG One has gone up in flames.
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This week, the automotive world lost another Mercedes-AMG One after what seemed to be a very public fire incident in Germany. As is often the case in such situations, details are scarce, but unless there's significant profit to be made from faking videos of rare supercars ablaze, we're inclined to believe the events are as reported.
@chrimbu AMG ONE, a hot sports car 🤣, would be better off without a Lithium Ion battery 🤔🤷‍♂️ ♬ The Sound of Silence (CYRIL Remix) – Disturbed
It's difficult to gather much information from the low-quality video, but the Exclusive Car Registry has several images of the car prior to the incident, as well as some basic production data. Since this information is crowd-sourced, it should be taken with caution, but it seems plausible that the exterior was originally Emerald Green Metallic before it was charred by smoke. The vehicle is classified as a 2023 model, and the current description is brief yet comprehensive:
"Burnt down."
The listing on that site, along with the vehicle's German license plate and the "Feuerwehr" markings in the background (German for "Fire Department"), suggest that the event occurred in Germany.
Indeed.
As we mentioned earlier, this isn’t the first time an AMG One has seemingly gone up in flames. In May 2023, another unit caught fire while being transported, resulting in a pile of carbon debris:
Um Mercedes-AMG ONE pegou fogo. A unidade estava no guincho, sendo rebocada no M6, em Staffordshire, quando explodiu em chamas. A Mercedes está investigando o incĂŞndio no motor hĂbrido, que aconteceu quando seu motor estava desligado.🗞️ | The Sun pic.twitter.com/6p4HLFhzut— Mercedes-AMG F1 Brasil 🇧🇷 (@MercedesAMGF1BR) May 22, 2023
The development of the electrified hypercar posed significant challenges for AMG. Essentially, Mercedes-Benz tasked its performance division with designing a street car body that would encompass a Formula 1 powertrain. The engineers were fully aware of the difficulties involved, but this unprecedented adaptation ultimately took nearly a year longer than initially planned.
If early production numbers are accurate, Mercedes manufactured only 275 units for the public. This means that for owners, the likelihood of their car catching fire remains under 1 in 100—a risk many would accept to own a 1,000-horsepower, 11,000-RPM beast that is essentially a street-legal F1 car.
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Another Mercedes-AMG One has gone up in flames.
The Mercedes-AMG One is essentially a street-legal Formula 1 vehicle. Only 275 units were manufactured, one was destroyed by fire in 2023, and now another has also gone up in flames.