If you needed yet another confirmation – apart from common sense – that the upcoming Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG W205 will also get a station wagon version, here it is.
Caught somewhere in northern Sweden, a pre-production version of C 63 AMG T-Modell (S205) has started winter testing in not exactly the best weather.
We say this because the spy photographers at the scene told us that the weather in Scandinavia has started to get warmer, conditions which make cold weather testing a bit inefficient.
Just like its sedan brother, the upcoming C 63 AMG Wagon S205 will be powered by a twin-turbocharged V8 with a displacement of just four liters, which would make it the smallest production V8 engine in Mercedes-Benz history.
Internally codenamed M177 in the C 63 AMG and M178 in the upcoming AMG GT (C190), the all-new engine is being developed inhouse by Mercedes-AMG GmbH and is in a way a direct replacement for the legendary M156/M159 family of powerhouses.
Paired with an evolution of the known seven-speed MCT transmission, the “base” model will be apparently putting out 476 hp, while an S-Model version – which may or may not come with 4Matic all-wheel drive - should offer over 510 hp.
Even though the regular station wagon variant of the new C-Class W205 was expected at the Geneva Motor Show 2014, it failed to arrive, so you should probably expect it in the upcoming weeks.
If the C 63 AMG sedan gets unveiled this fall, at the 2014 LA Auto Show, we should expect the wagon version to appear a few months later, with a Geneva Motor Show 2015 not being out of the question as its launch venue.
We say this because the spy photographers at the scene told us that the weather in Scandinavia has started to get warmer, conditions which make cold weather testing a bit inefficient.
Just like its sedan brother, the upcoming C 63 AMG Wagon S205 will be powered by a twin-turbocharged V8 with a displacement of just four liters, which would make it the smallest production V8 engine in Mercedes-Benz history.
Internally codenamed M177 in the C 63 AMG and M178 in the upcoming AMG GT (C190), the all-new engine is being developed inhouse by Mercedes-AMG GmbH and is in a way a direct replacement for the legendary M156/M159 family of powerhouses.
Paired with an evolution of the known seven-speed MCT transmission, the “base” model will be apparently putting out 476 hp, while an S-Model version – which may or may not come with 4Matic all-wheel drive - should offer over 510 hp.
Even though the regular station wagon variant of the new C-Class W205 was expected at the Geneva Motor Show 2014, it failed to arrive, so you should probably expect it in the upcoming weeks.
If the C 63 AMG sedan gets unveiled this fall, at the 2014 LA Auto Show, we should expect the wagon version to appear a few months later, with a Geneva Motor Show 2015 not being out of the question as its launch venue.