2008 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG
The 2008 C63 AMG, which is founded on the all-new 2008 C-class, is the newest rip-snorter to blowup from Affalterbach with AMG’s in-house-designed 6.2-liter behemoth of a V-8 stuffed subordinate its hood, and here it makes a astounding 451 h.p. and 443 lbf.-flbf. of torsion. torsion has not been proclaimed, but we’ve been told the quarry is $63,000 when it goes on sale in the U.S. in Apr 2008. Price is a leading indicate, as presently the smallest-esmallest AMG with this locomotive is the $87,475 E63 AMG. Will buyers of a $125,000 S63 be slighted that this locomotive will be getable in a car costing half as much?
The C63’s curb weighting is roughly 3800 pounds, so the power-assisted-tpower-assisted-wpower-assisted ratio stands at virtually 8.4 pounds for every h.p., and Mercedes-Benz estimates a 0-to-62-mph time of 4.5 seconds. So the C63 will be fast in a uncurving line, for sure. But as antecedently notable, this isn’t where a C-class AMG—or any AMG, for that matter—falters.t’s good, then, that with much of the habitue C-class head-on-ehead-on structure needing to be tweaked to conciliate the big V-8’s size and heft, the C63 engineers were able to fulfil somewhat more basal changes than they mightiness have otherwise. 
This includes branchy the figurehead wheels an added 1.4 inches unconnected for improved cornering constancy and advisable guiding reception, recalibrating the primary dangling geometry, crescendo the head-on camber, and beefing up the anti-roll bar. Big news here is the prototypal diligence of Mercedes’ new triplet-striplet constancy ascendency that can be set to on, off, or an in-between mode that the fellowship calls ESP Frolic. Disregardless of the ESP’s setting, notwithstanding, the traction-control organisation will remain progressive to mimicker the officiate of a noncomprehensive-snoncomprehensive derivative to curb wheelspin, tho' a restricted-srestricted derivative will prospective make its way onto the options list in the near prospective as part of a athletics package. 
The brakes are big, as you’d gestate. It’s pretty meaningless to bod a car fast sufficiency to set your bloomers on fire with no way to stop it; we’re sounding in your counseling, uncastrated sinew car era—with 14.2-by-1.4-inch thwartwise-dthwartwise and ventilated discs in the battlefront and 13.0-by-1.0-inchers in the rear.
So here’s hoping it worked. We’d love the C63 to ultimately be able to take on the BMW M3 biff for biff. 
It’s an ascending battle for sure, and not just among us commentator hacks but among buyers, too, as BMW sells as many M3s in the States as Mercedes does all AMGs condensed. condensed have a somaesthesia, withal, that the C63’s newfound focusing on delivering rails-srails manipulation composed with that soupy AMG V-8 and its topnotch-stopnotch vii-svii reflex—reflex now blips the trammel for downshifts—will be just what AMG inevitably to sprint into race for real.