AC MK VI

This is the catalogue record of the AC MK VI, one of 15 models AC Cars has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 2009. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the AC MK VI properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Lexus Lexus LFA, the Nissan Nissan 370Z, the Jeep Jeep Grand Cherokee — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the AC MK VI reads like this: the record lists its engine as 6.2 L Corvette LS3 naturally-aspirated V8; quoted output is GT 437 hp / GTA 550 hp / GTS 647 hp / GTSR 809 hp; kerb weight is recorded at 1050 kg (GT) / 1095 kg (GT Big Block) / 1080 kg (GTS) / 995 kg (GTSR); drive goes through 6-speed manual; the layout is FR layout. Worked together, those figures give roughly 416 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the AC Cars story

Within AC Cars's own catalogue the AC MK VI sits alongside the AC 2-Litre, the AC 3000ME, the AC 378 GT Zagato, the AC Ace. The record names the AC MK V as its predecessor and the AC Cobra GT Coupe (MK VI Coupe) / AC Cobra GT Roadster (MK VI Roadster) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Assembly is recorded at Heyda, Germany.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

The catalogue records what the AC MK VI was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.