AMG One slips again due to engine issues

[David]

https://www.autoblog.com/2018/10/16/mercedes-amg-one-delayed-formula-1-engine-emissions/

Seems Daimlers Hypercar is delayed again due to idle issues in getting it to pass emissions.

[ccap41]

But MeRcEdEs iS tHe BeSt

[Robert Hall]

They should go with an electric powertrain then.  An F1 power unit isn't built for low speed driving and idling...though I'm sure they have developed a marketing plan tie-in with their F1 team and Lewis Hamilton..

Edited October 16, 2018 by Cubical-aka-Moltar

[smk4565]

I would think who cares if it idles high, that is to be expected when you get an F1 engine, you aren't buying this car for NVH, they'll sell you a Maybach if you want that.  I would have thought maybe they could get some sort of emissions exemption for how low volume this will be.  

They will figure it out though, and I applaud the commitment of spending all the time and money on a low volume pet project in which they are just trying to prove they can put an F1 engine into a road car.   No one else has the guts to do something like that, and this is an unreal level of performance.

[balthazar]

Cheating software will slide it under the gate. The Germans are leaders in that field.

Edited October 23, 2018 by balthazar

[ccap41]

11 hours ago, smk4565 said:

I would think who cares if it idles high, that is to be expected when you get an F1 engine, you aren't buying this car for NVH, they'll sell you a Maybach if you want that.  I would have thought maybe they could get some sort of emissions exemption for how low volume this will be.  

They will figure it out though, and I applaud the commitment of spending all the time and money on a low volume pet project in which they are just trying to prove they can put an F1 engine into a road car.   No one else has the guts to do something like that, and this is an unreal level of performance.

Part of the impressiveness of putting an F1 engine into a road car would be making it legal.

Any engineering team can literally put the engine into a car. The complex part is making EVERYTHING work.