Mercedes-AMG reveals new GT 4-Door cabin

Upcoming electric super-GT is intended to get your 'pulse racing' - and keep your cupholders illuminated

By PH Staff / Friday, 6 March 2026 / Loading comments

The last time we encountered the new Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door, it was as an XX-badged prototype in the high heat of a Nardo summer, where its maker had spent a week smashing distance records - the preposterous kind that involved it running at 186mph for eight days. Obviously these were to highlight the level of effort that had gone into its new AMG.EA platform and the associated technology involved with mastering a 1,360hp output. Now, with a full reveal of the production car still pending, Mercedes has taken us inside the cabin to show us how ‘a quintessential AMG driving experience’ has been translated into seats and screens and ambient lighting.

The result, it must be said, will be vaguely familiar to anyone with a working knowledge of the firm’s current interior design language, though clearly the layout is bespoke to this platform. It significantly differs from the XX, too - Mercedes conceding in Nardo that the customer car would require a slightly taller body to better accommodate rear passengers. That difference is understandable, though it’s a shame that the prototype’s almost monolithic aesthetic hasn’t translated; we were never going to get a yoke and bucket seats, but the XX’s elemental architecture seemed like just the ticket for an electrified super-GT.

Of course, Mercedes wants the ‘sports car genes meet Gran Turismo attributes’ to be thought the same, even if it has bowed to the Chinese market obsession with wall-to-wall touchscreens. Separately, these measure 10.2 inches for the instrument cluster, 14 inches for the multimedia, with another 14-inch display meant for the passenger. If this looks (and sounds) about as appealing as finding a steering wheel mounted in your cinema room, you are not alone in thinking it, though it would probably be expecting a bit much of Mercedes to have rowed back on the tech-fest given the nature of the car - and its likely buyers.

Elsewhere, the results of in-house development at Affalterbach appear to have paid dividends. AMG is promising a low seating position and the newly developed rotary controls flanking the driver are evidently a nod to the previous GT 63 4-Door. They are separately responsible for ‘Response Control’ (how brutal you want the accelerator to feel), ‘Agility Control’ (how brutal you want the cornering to seem), and ‘Traction Control’ (how less brutal you would like intervention to seem over nine stages). Needless to say, and in stark contrast to the screens, these are meant to ensure ‘maximum ease of use and an intuitive haptic experience’.

If positioning them beyond the driver’s line of sight seems unfortunate, then rest assured that the AMG steering wheel retains its own physical switchgear, where the more conventional drive modes can still be found. These are joined by paddles that control the amount of recuperation the car is undertaking. If you want a more detailed idea of what the powertrain is up to, the MBUX system has been updated to include four ‘AMG Special’ sub screens, including ‘AMG Track Pace’ that will provide you with live telemetry, acceleration values or even race data depending on the situation.

Perhaps more pertinent for the majority of end users is confirmation that the 4-Door will be a four-seater as standard, providing two ‘comfortable, contoured individual seats’ for passengers in the rear (a three-seater bench is available as an option). Mercedes suggests that it has created recesses in the floor for generous legroom and credits the available headroom as ‘pleasant’. At any rate, the view ought to be pleasant enough: the manufacturer is promising a panoramic glass roof that can be switched between transparent and non transparent in segments. At night, it will even be transformed into ‘a sparkling canvas with a unique lighting display’, so you’ve got that to look forward to.

The presence of a ‘carbon-look’ lightweight roof on the option list (in certain markets) is evidence enough that personalisation will play its usual role in proceedings. Apparently the front seats are newly developed for increased lateral support, but don’t be surprised if the ‘even sportier’ AMG Performance seats are a commonly ticked option. Ditto a choice of different seat covers said to reflect the ‘entire spectrum’ of GT 4-Door buyer whims. And that’s beyond Mercedes’ preoccupation with ambient lighting, which will encourage passengers to ‘create their own personal atmosphere’.

"In the new Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe, we have consistently focused every interior detail on performance and implemented it with the highest precision,” noted Mercedes-AMG chairman, Michael Schiebe. “Even when stationary, the interior already showcases what the future GT 4-Door is capable of, making the vehicle's driving dynamics immediately tangible. It creates maximum control and enables a typical AMG driving experience that gets the pulse racing – you immediately want to get in and drive off." No official word yet as to when precisely you’ll be able to do that, although plainly the arrival of the EV flagship, another wildly optimistic bet on the desirability of battery power, is imminent.