Practicality and luxury of a premium sedan tagged with immensely thrilling V8 power – that’s the E63 AMG for you
The date was set with AMG and after experiencing exhilarating drives in the SLS AMG and S63 AMG, I was looking for an option that would make perfect sense for the entrepreneur who always dreamed of lightning-fast 0-100 km/h runs when he was young but was forced to drive around in an executive sedan to protect his image in the industry as a sane businessman. How about a Mercedes-Benz? Let us take the E-Class for its excellence in the current market scenario and spruce it up to give killer performance when driven by the enthusiast. That is what AMG must have thought and made the E63 AMG. The 6.2-litre naturally aspirated V8 pumps out 525 PS of peak power and 630 Nm of peak torque. The engine has been mated with the same seven-speed AMG SPEEDSHIFT MCT as seen on the S63 AMG and shifts through the cogs in as little as 100 milliseconds. With 0-100 km/h coming in a scant 4.5 seconds, the E63 AMG talks of serious performance.
All this is a known standard when you see the AMG badge on the bootlid. But what makes the E63 an amazing package is the balance it strikes between luxury and performance, between comfort and sporty character. The E63 AMG comes with three suspension settings. In the comfort mode, you can enjoy your daily luxurious drive through the town. Put it in the middle setting and it adds sufficient stiffness for sportiness and the final setting will transform your E-Class into something that you might not mind taking to the racetrack too. However, the light-weight steering might pose a little problem there.
All in all, the E63 AMG comes as a very good package to live with for someone who is crazy about performance and yet roots for a luxurious sedan. For a little more fun, AMG also offer a performance package with the E63 AMG that fine-tunes the electronic dampers and offers a 40 per cent limited slip differential. What else do you want from an insanely fast yet luxuriously premium sedan?.
Caption- The rotary dial gives you an option to choose from the various driving modes. And for that mindboggling experience, just press ‘AMG’
