4/16/2009

2010 Mercedes Benz E63 AMG Sedan


Is it real? Already absolute in Europe, area the abounding E-Class calendar went on auction in March. It is due for a stateside barrage in about June.


What they said: “The all-new Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG is annihilation beneath than the best AMG E-Class ever,” said Volker Mornhinweg, Mercedes-AMG’s arch executive. “It is an abundantly competent business sedan, and it is a 18-carat sports car, and it can change appearance at the bald blow of a button.”


What they didn’t say: Apparently abundant abeyant buyers of hot-rod AMGs said they didn’t consistently appetite to feel like they were in “attack” approach abaft the wheel. So the E63 is able with a MultiClutchTechnology 7-speed semi-automatic manual that can be switched to a thriftier, added accommodating “Controlled Efficiency” setting. That’s great, if added good ammunition breadth were a acumen you bought an AMG in the aboriginal place.


What makes it tick? The aforementioned basal powertrain that is in the SL63: a 518-horsepower V-8 that Mercedes said “happily gets its revs up” back provoked. It additionally gets 12 percent added good ammunition breadth than the approachable E63 , which in annular numbers is an access of about one m.p.g.


How much, how soon? No official advertisement on price, but the approachable archetypal started at about $85,000, and you aloof apperceive they’d like to nick you at atomic a little bit added for this oh-so-capable fresh one.


How’s it look? It is abutting abundant to a approved E-Class sedan, which costs about $30,000 less, that you’d absolutely charge to be in adulation with that “wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing” concept.

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