Within the space of two months, sports car buyers – or more aptly, higher-end sports car buyers – have seen two new faces added on for consideration. Both are from marques more commonly associated with grandeur at their very top end of the scale, so they are very much halo offerings making statement of intents, but in very different directions.
The first is the BMW i8, which arrived in April, and the second is the Mercedes-AMG GT, which made its official debut in Sepang on June 24 in its initial GT S form. The former is revolution, a marvel of a technical showcase and suitably dressed to dazzle. The latter is evolution, offering a different allure, one presented in a more traditional – but not conservative - package.
It's inevitable that comparisons will be drawn and arguments for each mooted, but they really are different beasts, even if they do share the same segmentation space by virtue of type and price.
For one, the GT S isn't really aiming at the i8 per se – its sights are more level-planed and focused on the likes of the Porsche 911. The question is, how does the Merc shape up in the face of such sterling competition?
Read more of this post
No comments:
Post a Comment