AMG’S LEGENDARY BOSS IS BUSY PUTTING AN F1 CAR ON THE ROAD. AND HE STILL FOUND TIME TO TALK TO US
“WE CAN STILL DO A BETTER CAR THAN WE’VE DONE BEFORE”
TOBIAS MOERS
ASINGLE WORD to describe AMG’s cars? Particularly when you shut down the nannying electronics and switch through the drive modes from benign to brave? It’s at that point there’s the barrage of noise. The giddying, almost hyperactive agility. Lateral grip to re-arrange your organs. Towering power, at once smooth and furious like the face of a 30-metre wave. And that almost granular, explicitly mechanical quality that all AMGs share. In a single word, then? Intense.
It’s a word that can also be used to describe company CEO Tobias Moers, 25 years an AMG man and the preeminent architect of the firm’s metamorphosis from uncomplicated tuning shop to 21st-century performance engineering powerhouse, in Formula One and on the road.
Nevertheless, there are some things we have to ask, and why not start with the awkward one? Like, where on Earth is the One, AMG’s long-overdue hypercar and hybrid tour de force? Moers, relaxed and chuckling as he leans against a replica of AMG’s first race car, the beloved SEL-based Red Pig, has clearly come to terms with his halo car’s apparently endless setbacks.
“You know, we’re making good progress now. We had a delay, no doubt, but we are back,” he says. “Back in the spring of 2019 we had the
