Mercedes-AMG - Four To The Fore

The Mercedes-AMG GT53 4-Door Coupe is a great car that occupies a very odd niche in the line-up.

If you’re searching for the reasons as to why the (take a deep breath) Mercedes-AMG GT53 4-Door Coupe exists, we’ll end your search and give you two big ones.

Specifically, the upcoming BMW 8 Series Gran Coupe, which will be making its way here in the next couple of months, and the second-generation Porsche Panamera, which has righted the styling ills of its predecessor and can finally lay claim to being a ‘proper’ four-door 911.

But, you might be asking, can’t that role be filled by the CLS? Mercedes-Benz has the CLS53 line-up and that is, for all intents and purposes an identical car to the GT53, but for SGD100,000 or so less.

And if you really wanted to cheap out, you could get the CLS350 for SGD346,888, a whopping SGD200,000 less than what Mercedes-Benz is asking for the GT53 and a little over half as much as the fire-breathing hell-bringer 639hp rocketship that is the GT63 S.

But if you’re looking to cheap out, perhaps the GT 4-Door Coupe isn’t the car for you. This is a car that’s aimed squarely at the upper reaches of the Panamera line-up and forthcoming M8 Gran Coupe. The latter car is only a concept for now, but it’s almost a foregone conclusion that it’ll make production.

The significance of the car and its entire raison d’etre is that it’s the pinnacle of a sporty Mercedes-Benz four-door and that it’s a body style unique to Mercedes-AMG, a badge reserved only for the carmaker’s fastest, best-equipped (and priciest) products.

Never mind the fact that unlike the two-door GT with its aluminium space frame, the GT 4-Door Coupe is built on Mercedes-Benz’ ubiquitous MRA modular platform also shared with the CLS.