This is why the design of the AMG GT 4-Door EV is so disappointing. Explained.
Proportions on EV sedans are almost always a mess because the battery in the floor raises the car’s height significantly, which often messes up the design too. You can see this on the Audi A6 e-tron, BMW i3 Neue Klasse, and Mercedes C-Class EV. If they still built the car as low as their ICE equivalents, second-row passengers would have to squat down while sitting, with their thighs not resting on the seat and their knees sitting at chest height (4th pic). To avoid that, the Porsche Taycan was the first EV sedan to introduce a “foot garage” (3rd pic), allowing passengers to sit lower and rest their feet low between the batteries. This enabled the Taycan to have attractive, combustion-car-like proportions.
The sad part about the AMG GT 4-door EV is that it’s the first Mercedes EV sedan to adopt the “Footgarage” (2nd pic) approach and therefore have great body proportions and side profile (1st pic), a great wheel-to-body-height ratio, proper hood & rear length, and an overall low height. It could easily pass as an ICE car proportion wise. This is the first Mercedes EV sedan that got all the fundamentals right, only for them to butcher the design asthetics.
I don’t think people understand what a great engineering effort the AMG GT platform is and how impressive its specs are. It’s too impressive to be let down by such a disappointing design. This is why, in my opinion, the design of this EV hurts the most, it genuinely feels like a deliberate attempt to sabotage the car. There’s no longer the excuse of the proportions being off or the design being hard to manage simply because it’s an EV. There are genuinely zero excuses for this design.
TLDR: EV sedans often struggle with proportions due to the high battery in the floor. The AMG GT 4-door EV uses the “foot garage” solution to improve packaging and get strong proportions, but the design doesn’t take advantage of it, making it feel like a missed opportunity, falling short of its great platform & specs.