01 April 2009 - 11:00
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Roll up into the midst of that angry, baying mob coagulating in the City of London today in, say, a BMW M6 or a Porsche Cayenne and you'd be dismembered faster and more efficiently than a KFC chicken bound for the bargain bucket.
But pitch up in the new E63 AMG - the monster new E-Class announced today by
Mercedes - and you might just escape unnoticed... despite the fact that it's
packing 518bhp.
That's a lot of power: 18bhp more than the BMW M5 and 11bhp more than the
previous-gen E63, thanks to a revised version of Merc's monster 6.2-litre V8,
which now puts out the same power and torque (465lb ft, since you ask)
as the SL63 AMG.
Which means fastness, and plenty of it. The E63 will hit 62mph in 4.5 seconds -
0.2 quicker than the M5 - with top speed limited to 155mph.
Good news on the transmission front, too. The E's old torque-converter auto 'box
has been ditched in favour of the SL63's quicker ‘Speedshift' seven-speed unit,
which helps to improve the E63's efficiency: with a combined figure of 22.4mpg,
economy is up by a mighty 12 per cent on the old E63, making it veritably
green. Hmmm.
AMG has gone to work on the E's handling, of course: the track has been widened
by a full 56mm, there are new struts and control arms all round, and the front
and rear axles have more negative camber for, er, important technical reasons
that we don't have time to go into right now.
Visually, well, it's what we've come to expect from AMG: understated enough to
sneak through an angry crowd of eco-protesters, but plenty of hints for those
in the know. Check out the LED daytime running lights, big rear diffuser and
quad tailpipes. Eighteen-inch alloys are standard - though you're looking at the
optional 19s here - while the front wings have been pushed out by 17mm and are
festooned in AMG badging.
We'll see the E63 AMG in the UK this September. Though prices are yet to be
announced, expect to pay something in the £70,000 region.
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Ummm....can I have one pleeeease
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I preferred the oval shaped exhausts on the current model; otherwise, it is very nice. Still pretty understated "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" attitude. I wonder when the Estate will come out.
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It not any less uglier than the normal E class!!
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It not any less uglier than the normal E class!!
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0.2 of a second faster than the BMW - I could nearly get a cup of coffee in that time.
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That car has the highest power-to-good looks ratio I've ever seen. But I still want one. Why on Earth do I want such an ugly car???
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I wonder if Merc'll make a 'Black' edition of this...
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Wow that looks seriously mean. I want to see a graphite grey one with those exact wheels prowling around a dirty street at night if ever they advertise it, just for maximum menace. Hopefully it sounds mean too!
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Might be a bit ugly, but it makes up for it by punching you in the face with those looks, what a lovely mean car....
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totaly cool it looks better than the normal one please i love to have one
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Is it wrong to really, really want this slice of manic idiocy parked on your drive? I think it might be. I still want one though. Goddamn it.
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new amg looks absoloutely fantastic. the exhausts are big, the lights are nice, the shape is sleek, what more can you want? plus its fast and powerful
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the new amg looks great
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this looks sweet wonder what it will look like in black. And the new light look good too
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Why do Germans always get the butt of a car wrong? It looks like a salary man's bum. Can't they get the Brazilians to do car butts? (Jag's used to have the back-ends of old people who live off fish & chips.. and so they would, being British..)
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Ugly since '96, so this isn't strange.I mean,all they did obvious from the squar-er little eyes (UGLY crappy headlights) is made the car a tighter square as opposed to the free-form round crap last year, and made a better engine that has 2 unnecessary litres, and two missing cylinders- crazy bits.Wasn't it the 'eyebrows' that made everyone criticise the 5 series that are adorning the sides of those headlight? Lest I forget,they made the tail worse,as the last one was better although that was making up for the already mentioned ghastly front end.I see why there is a CLS as the E class is just too wrong to be made-over, 'cos even if i was given this for free,I will get a BMW M5/Alpina B5, but definately not this square sh*t, even if it was just because of the ugly bits-front lights,rear end,and very little squared exhaust 'pipes' - just bigger than their tobacco brothers.
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Horrible..just Ghastly.Thinking of it,they don't this bad an exterior on the C class.It's just baffling to me why they can't just have a proper whole headlight, with a 'squared version' of the previous butt - the square treatment that turned those two 'eyes' of last year into these headlights - would have spun heads -the right way-..afterall, they can't possibly be saying that the thin line separating the two Lamps will have a drastic effect if taking away and replaced with real GLASS! Heard someone saying something about HUGE exhaust pipes;really?You've got to have been staring at VW beetles' exhausts for a while - no offence beetle.
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Alright,here's the summary.It's all about ugly bits.Head lights,Tail lights,exhaust pipes,FULL STOP.Well, coming to think of it,without the line separating the headlight into two,it wil definately be another C-class headlight-at least better than these.Tremendous work was done on the body and is C-class-ish(explaining why they didn't join the two headlights together) in a good way.The interior is revised and better than the way it was before.The back,...you know the rest.
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A4R0N-24 commented on this article
01 April 2009
Thats one WICKED CAR, that kicks the M5's arse
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