"The Mercedes-AMG Project ONE is the first Formula 1 car with MOT approval," said Ola Källenius, the company's global head of research and Mercedes-Benz Cars development.
In other words this is a car that boasts never before experienced performance technology - unless your name happens to be Lewis Hamilton - but delivers it in a way that could conceivably make the car capable of performing the school run.
"Motorsport is not an end in itself for us. Faced with intense competition, we develop technologies from which our production vehicles also subsequently benefit. We are drawing on our experiences and successes from three constructors' and drivers' world championships to bring Formula 1 technology to the road for the first time," said Dr Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars.
In essence this means a car constructed from the most exotic of strong yet lightweight materials and with a tiny hybrid 1.6-litre V6 engine placed dead in its center.
With a turbocharger, two F1-derived energy recuperation systems and four electric motors, the car's total output resides at 1,000hp and is capable of reaching a top speed of 350kph.
Other hypercars can manage similar top speeds or levels of horsepower, but nothing currently on the road can do so from an electrically assisted turbocharged engine similar in size to that found in a VW Polo.
Nor can any current road legal car rev to 11,000rpm.
Such a high red line means that most owners will never manage to drive it on the complete limit.
Mercedes has had to build a unique automated eight-speed manual transmission to cope with all of the torque and power the engine puts out.
With the electric motors powering a single wheel each, there torque vectoring and individual wheel braking to make it feel very much planted out on the road.
The electric motors and the lithium battery pack is able to provide pure electric propulsion for up to 25km and the car can reach 200kph in under 6.0 seconds.
Unlike a real F1 car, the Project One has a roof, several generous storage spaces and two racing seats rather than just one.
The cabin is considered to be austere, with nothing included that isn't absolutely crucial to the car's capabilities.
Even the gauges have been ditched in favour of two digital screens as well as a full infotainment system, air conditioning and electric windows.
Only 275 units are planned to maintain exclusivity, with each expected to sell for 2.3 million euros (RM11.1mil).
> The hyper car has whetted the appetite of the rich and famous, with one Malaysian already booking the car ahead of its production, which is yet undetermined.
