Can A Mercedes-AMG GT R Out-Drag A Renault Twizy… In Reverse?

In one of Top Gear Magazine’s less orthodox drag races for YouTube, a Renault Twizy electric biffabout goes up against a Mercedes-AMG GT R… sort of
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Picture the scene: you roll up to the traffic lights in your Renault Twizy and you’re feeling lucky. Sure enough, next to you is a Mercedes-AMG GT R. As you admire this slice of luck – you don’t see a GT R every day, after all – you notice that it’s facing the wrong way. And that the driver wants a race.

Your breathing quickens: this could be your only chance to beat a genuine AMG machine over the quarter-mile. Your grip on the Twizy’s wheel tightens. A bead of sweat forms and trickles down your cheek. The tension is unbearable. And then… green lights – go, go, go!

Can A Mercedes-AMG GT R Out-Drag A Renault Twizy… In Reverse?

A less dramatic start to a Top Gear drag race is tough to imagine. Magazine editor Charlie Turner, in the Mercedes, takes it fairly easily away from the line to stop the car wheelspinning and/or losing stability and crashing out. The Twizy goes flat-out… and is way, way, way slower.

But, as the Top Gear crew planned all along, that’s not the end of the story. The Twizy can hit a dizzying 50mph while the GT R’s reverse gear is limited to 38mph. Soon the perky Renault starts to reel the big AMG in, but can it get there in time? Well, yes, actually. The slightly bizarre video is still worth a watch, though.

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Comments

Gazzzz

Can you put it at “useless” in the dictionnary please?

12/27/2018 - 10:38 |
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ModernChaos

In reply to by Gazzzz

As long as we put “dictionnary” in there, too.

12/27/2018 - 11:49 |
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Anonymous

This video was really interesting when i watched it a week ago…..

12/27/2018 - 12:44 |
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Matt Kimberley

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

It’s not the busiest news week of the year, to be fair.

12/27/2018 - 13:00 |
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BMWfan

Why do car manufacturers limit speed in reverse?

12/27/2018 - 14:08 |
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UnknownCat13

In reply to by BMWfan

Because it’s one gear. That’s like saying “why do car manufacturers limit speed in first gear”. They have to have it relatively short so that you don’t have to constantly slip the clutch to get it to move slowly, which the only speed you really use in reverse.

12/27/2018 - 16:41 |
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Anonymous

Now Mercedes will put 7 gears in reverse

12/27/2018 - 19:06 |
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ᴶᵘˢᵗᴬᴿᵃⁿᵈᵒá

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Or will they? It’s slightly redundant to have 2 reversing gears, let alone 7

12/28/2018 - 02:08 |
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jdm-supra-1600(md squad)(Supra squad leader)

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Fast and furious where u at

01/03/2019 - 03:30 |
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Anonymous

And I thought I saw everything

12/27/2018 - 19:55 |
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Olivier (CT's grammar commie)

Should have got the Twizy F1 smh

12/28/2018 - 19:32 |
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We need this twizzy to get some funding

01/01/2019 - 03:54 |
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Benjamin Ender Ammann

This race on steroids:

12/28/2018 - 21:38 |
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Anonymous

Good! Now I know how useless the AMG is on reverse! 👌

12/31/2018 - 11:27 |
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