Merc's great and powerful search of the highway for years - one that has been hit 150 hours for something with an AMG badge statement. The last in the race is the E63 S, the Mercedes E-Class AMG the fastest and strongest in history.
It is a monument to what is defined today in a large AMG - with turbocharger, all-wheel drive and a class of interior advanced technology, building technology and quality driver assistance. However, it remains true, however, the AMG brand to keep the excess energy and drama that made the AMG Performance Division today.
It is fast, powerful and refined, then, but also before so cheerfully on and brutally surpassed all the AMG can happen.
Engine, Transmission and 0-60 time
The well-known twin-turbo V8-4-liter super-GT coupe and C63 AMG smaller, but the new E63 S overpowered turbocharger and internal displacement. This is the strongest version of the hot engine Vee "still - 603bhp and 627lb ft of torque of 2500rpm.
The transmission is a new nine-speed automatic - instead of a dual clutch - a wet clutch instead of a torque converter. The force is distributed to all four wheels, - no release of RWD - with 100 percent of the torque to the rear axle, until the teams capture slip, while the sent, up to 50 percent can be sent before.
Despite its weight of 1880 kg in the S-E63 still up to 62 hours Sprint in 3.4 seconds. The top speed is 155 mph, but can be increased for AMG driver module 186 hours to be increased.
Technical Highlights
The all-wheel drive system is perhaps the most interesting on a diaboliquement complex drive train component. Called 4Matic + the front wheels by necessity desembarazadas keeps torque on the road on the way to provide a corner to send all the orders to the rear axle, the front tires left free side of the force against only rotation. This improves the rotation and reduces understeer.
The clutch center is closed only to send the device to the front when the throttle is applied to a distance from the angle, and the system recognizes a loss of adhesion of the rear tires. The E63 can thus combine to the mobility of a car with rear-wheel drive all-wheel drive.
A controversial feature is the type of drift, the type of function that you can expect to see in a hot hatch, but hardly a super expensive salon. In fact, unlike other drift modes, E63 simply blocks the clutch closed center, it makes a driving car rear wheel.
What’s it like to drive?
Refined and comfortable in the city and civilized way. The cabin is excellent, also with a very high modern design, high quality materials and a degree of fit and workmanship.
The character change when the Sport or Sport Plus mode is selected to match the metamorphosis of Bruce Banner. Despite the large mass of the car suddenly, it becomes extremely manoeuvrable front axle with a very sensitive, good grip on the center of the corner and of course excellent traction also. With the control of the body tight and cushioning weight quite noticeable as the E63 way to navigate on a road torsional cross section by means of a much smaller, lighter gym.
The four-wheel drive system allows the slightest signs of oversteering, at least with the electronic stability control re-lit a notch before sending the time call by the drive to the front axle. Even if a rear-wheel drive car would sit so hard at the exit of a corner of the tire smoke, E63 and leaves gets its guide with every twist and twisting stretching.
Mercedes says the electric steering provides a sense of optimum direction which is a range, but it is certainly one of the most direct, natural, and intuitive system variables related, we found. No drop feeling, but gives a sort of unspent of how much sense of grip is reserved on the front axle, and that is really all you need to put the car right at the corner of the borderpost area.
Answer, linear in its delivery and angry powerful engine is a masterpiece. Right perhaps more than any other super WOHN- and despite the use of a pair of turbochargers the AMG performance of an amazing puncture, the soundtrack is very impressive. Transmission, meanwhile, are as fast and delicate as you need in a car
Inevitably, the E63 feels less comfortable in the circuit, but if you are patient in the corners enough to mention the front end on the road there is sufficient control, accuracy and flexibility - not power - for fun. Drift mode is also very entertaining, giving the car the whole OVER-POWERED character overshooting at any speed you mention any mention AMG.
This is the biggest tour of the new E63 S: the combination of dynamics and ultra-modern sense of evil we have learned to love AMG.
Price and Rivals
The prices start at £ 78,935 for the standard model, but you will pay £ 88,295 for the "S" variant.
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The Audi RS6 is available only in the state, while the Porsche Panamera Turbo, not necessarily a super-lounge, provides all AMG performance many, if not all its dynamic capabilities.
