This 712bhp G63 celebrates the Merc SLR’s Mille Miglia win. Can you tell?

This is the HOF 1955. It isn’t, much to TopGear.com’s dismay, a 722bhp tribute to the everlasting brilliance of David Hasselhoff. No, it’s a 712bhp tribute to another motoring great: Sir Stirling Moss and his unutterably gorgeous ‘722’ 300 SLR that won the 1955 Mille Miglia.

Which means when these things begin rolling into customers’ lives in 2025, it’ll mark 60 years since that epic achievement. Hence why it’s got an epic amount of power. German tuner HOF – who recently paid tribute to Hamilton’s Merc career with the ‘Sir Class’ – has upped that AMG biturbo V8’s power.

So it now churns out – that’s right! – 712bhp, which is 722PS, that latter number appearing on the side of Sir Stirl’s Merc. It also gets 700lb ft of torque, which means both metrics rise a fair bit. No word on a renewed 0-62mph time (does it matter in a car shaped like a high-rise?), but it’ll max out at 149mph.

You’ll spot the schporty, 722-inspired aesthetics quite quickly. Because literally, there is a giant ‘722’ across the flanks and on the bonnet in the same style used for Moss’s Merc. It also comes with a ‘HOF Evolution’ bodykit, lots of carbon panels including the bonnet, grille, and roof spoiler, a new sports exhaust, and ‘vintage tartan’ for the interior. Bold.

Just 10 of these cars – styled by former Bugatti man Etienne Salomé – will be available. But if you don’t fancy a petrol-powered tribute to an old racecar, and want to blend into the surroundings a bit more, perhaps HOF’s other G might interest you?

This one (pictured below) is called the HOF Rebel, and actually it won’t blend in at all. Because that camo is available in the white-grey pictured here, or red. Much like the 1955 G, this one also comes with a full carbon bodykit, massive wheels (24s!), brakes from the G63, more camo and carbon inside and the company’s own ‘starlight’ ceiling headliner.

Sitting (far) underneath the stars lies the bones of the not-at-all-regular regular Mercedes G580, which means a 116kWh (usable) battery, four electric motors, about 280 miles of range and a whisper under 580bhp. It’ll also do that ‘G-Turn’ thing where is pirouettes on the spot – handy for showing off that lovely camo to all your friends.

There’s yet more to come from HOF. After the Sir Class, the 1955 and the Rebel, there’ll be one more car revealed in 2025 that’ll conclude it’s ‘Collection No.1’, and that one will be “developed in collaboration with a renowned figure from the music industry”. Answers on a (digital) postcard…