Mercedes-Benz AMG GLE 63 S Coupe

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Mercedes-Benz AMG GLE 63 S Coupe
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Mercedes-Benz AMG GLE 63 S Coupe

• Whoaits like a fighter plane in here! said
  one of my neighbors. Well, its like that behind
  the wheel, too. AMG is Mercedes-Benzs tuner
  division, the skunkworks where mad scientists
  take ordinary high-performance Mercs and turn
  them into extraordinary higher-performance Mercs.
  This one, for example, is armed with a 4.0-liter
  twin-turbocharged and electrically boosted V-8
  that can churn out 603 horsepower and 627
  pound-feet of torque

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AMG GLE 63 S Coupe
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Overview

• There was a time, especially in the early days of
  emissions regulations, when this much power was
  undreamed of, and anyway would have been almost
  uncontrollable by most of us. But technology made
  the beast and technology tamed the beast. Your
  grandmother could roll down to the bingo hall in
  this wonder wagon and then, with the push of a
  few buttons to alter its personality, Lewis
  Hamilton could fling it around a Formula One
  track at a hair-raising pacewhile singing along
  to Nessun dorma on the Burmester Surround Sound
  stereo. Know more about Mercedes Benz AMG

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Overview

• The job of transmitting all that energy to the
  wheels falls to a razor-sharp yet creamy-smooth
  9-speed automatic transmission and 4Matic
  all-wheel driveplus active engine mounts (to
  counter all that torque), active ride-control
  suspension with roll stabilization, a
  limited-slip center differential and multiple
  driver-selectable operating modes. All this
  tech is electronic, and it has all been breathed
  upon by AMGs performance-focused engineers. The
  actual interface between power and pavement is
  a set of steamroller tires on 22-inch forged
  alloy wheels backed up by racecar brakes the size
  of pizza pans.

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Overview

• Even Germanys autobahnen are now so choked with
  traffic that most stretches are speed-limited, so
  Im not sure where this cars 174-MPH top speed
  could ever be realized for more than a few
  possibly terrifying seconds. But it is so
  civilized that we can deeply appreciate it even
  at 65 miles per hour. For instance, it has the
  best, most clued-in adaptive cruise control Ive
  experienced, backed up by a lane-centering system
  so accurate and unobtrusive that I rarely
  switched it off.

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Overview

• In any case, after scrolling through the long
  lists of this vehicles systems and features, and
  experiencing its comforts, conveniences,
  performance levels and evident quality, it might
  be easier to list what it doesnt have.
• For me personally, it doesnt have an
  environmental conscience. Eighteen miles per
  gallon is not bad for a machine with this much
  motora decade ago, it might have gotten half
  thatbut its hardly a bellwether for
  carbon-emissions reduction, either.

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Overview

• Two comments on this First, at just under
  140,000, we wont see many of these in
  circulation anyway their impact on global
  warming will be numerically irrelevant (and
  meanwhile it proclaims M-Bs engineering
  prowess). And second, like all carmakers,
  Mercedes-Benz is now rolling out the first of
  what will be a fleet of clean-running
  battery-electric vehicles. And look, a story just
  landed in my In box about the first plug-in
  hybrid AMG! But wait. Its called the GT 63 S
  E Performance sedan . . . and it puts out 831
  horsepower! AMG is using electricity to provide
  more oomph, not more range. Theres no mention of
  fuel efficiency, either, and it will cost about
  200 grand! So the paragraph above still applies.

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